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Gryphon Mikado CD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|Anybody wanting proof of the burnin phenomenon as applied to hi-fi equipment needs look no further than the gryphon Mikado. Listen to one with anything less than weeks on the clock (months would be better) ...read more -
The Willi Bauer DPS3 Turntable
|Willi Bauer, maker of the dps turntable takes "does what it says on the tin" product naming to new heights of clarity, or at least he does when you realise that dps stands for der ...read more -
The Townshend Rock V Record Player
|Considering the apparent simplicity of playing a record and the sheer scope it offers when it comes to innovation and Heath-Robinson engineering, it’s remarkable how few new ideas have really stayed the course. Linear tracking ...read more -
Nordost Tyr Cable (Hi-Fi+)
|Cables, eh? Can’t live without ‘em, can’t show ‘em off to friends at dinner parties… Whatever your take on cables, from unreconstructed nihilist, (“once you’ve reached a basic electrical standard, all cables sound the same, ...read more -
Crystal Cable Ultra Loom
|“Gregory using cables from someone other than Nordost!” I can see the shock in certain quarters already. But settle down at the back there. This isn’t as big a reach as it might appear, because ...read more -
Eastern Electric Minimax and Fatman i-tube 252 Integrated Amplifiers (Hi-Fi+)
|Audio power has never been cheaper than it is at the moment. Advances in both semiconductor design and digital electronics have resulted in a situation where a couple of hundred watts of conventional solid-state power ...read more -
Spendor SP100R Loudspeakers (Hi-Fi+)
|When it comes to loudspeaker technology I am a keen advocate of cutting edge design, so bring it on; lets have the new diaphragm materials, beryllium, diamond and ceramics; I’m up for it all. But ...read more -
Piega TC 10X Loudspeaker (Hi-Fi+)
|There is something irrationally attractive about small, expensive objects. Cameras, exotic moving-coil cartridges, luxury fountain pens and watches with interesting mechanical complications all hold some kind of fascination for me. Now I can add to ...read more -
Thorens TD160HD Turntable
|“I know nothing stays the same…” at least, so sang Carly. But in hi-fi, as in life, there are touchstones, ever-presents, whose constancy both reassures and marks our passage: they may develop or evolve, fade ...read more -
Bryston BCD-1 CD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|Unlike many electronics companies in the hi-fi business, the Canadian Bryston company was a digital holdout. Yes, it has included DACs in its integrated amp and pre-amp for some time, but to make a whole ...read more -
Denon DCD-1500AE SACD Player
|Unlike many manufacturers Denon still makes at least some of its hardware in Japan, a fact that certainly separates the company from almost all of its competition in the budget audio sector. It’s remarkable that ...read more -
Cairn Fog3 CD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|“You’re sending me a what?” “Cairn… Fog3… Yes, really. Follow up to the Fog2, in case you were wondering.” I was. Evidently, there had been enough takers for Fogs 1 & 2 to perpetuate the ...read more -
Abbingdon Music Research CD-77 CD Player
|Press releases which announce some new company that’s going to set new standards in CD reproduction/ amplification/speaker design are not exactly news. In a market where hyperbole is all too often a substitute for considered ...read more -
The Muse Erato II Modular Digital Player
|Kevin Halverson, the man behind the Muse electronics, represents one of the unsung luminaries of digital development. Starting out nearly twenty years ago with a range of innovative amplification, many of the concepts that debuted ...read more -
Audio Research LS17 Line-Stage and Ref 110 Power Amplifier (Hi-Fi+)
|If any company has established a distinctive visual identity over the last thirty years or so it has to be Audio Research. Witness the fact that I still regularly use an SP 10 pre-amplifier dating ...read more