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Sennheiser HD 820 circumaural closed back headphone
|Sennheiser’s HD 800 series is ever-expanding. It began with the original HD 800 almost a decade ago. That model is still on sale, but a few years ago, the company launched an HD 800 S ...read more -
Primare I35 integrated amplifier
|I’m used to dealing with amplifiers. One look through the pages of any issue of Hi-Fi+ shows just that; my house regularly becomes cardboard and crate city this month. So, although there are models that ...read more -
Audio Research REF 160M mono power amplifiers
|It’s funny, but Audio Research and McIntosh are all part of the same happy family, have so much in common, but are also miles apart. Both have their followers – in fact, both have followers ...read more -
Chartwell SUB3 subwoofer
|It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a pair of LS3/5a loudspeakers in good condition, must be in want of a bit more bass. OK, so my days as Jane Austen’s stunt-writer are somewhat numbered, ...read more -
Hegel Music Systems H590 integrated amplifier
|Here is the big one: Hegel’s top of the tree. The H590 from Hegel Music Systems is not only the biggest integrated amplifier the company has ever produced, but it’s also the most connected, the ...read more -
Simaudio Moon 600I V2 Evolution Series integrated amplifier
|Many moons ago (yeah, I know), I was given the opportunity to review a compact little integrated amplifier from the Canadian manufacturer SimAudio. It was called the Moon i-3. Outwardly it was a completely no-frills ...read more -
Monitor Audio Studio stand-mount loudspeaker
|Studio, by Monitor Audio, is a one-off design by the company, one of the last to spring from the pen (well, the pen on the tablet of the CAD/CAM computer) of Dean Hartley, who stood ...read more -
Critical Mass Systems Center Stage2 anti-vibration feet
|Critical Mass Systems is well known for making some of the finest (and largest) high-end audio equipment support systems money can buy. So, it might come as something of a shock to discover that CMS ...read more -
Dutch & Dutch 8c stand-mount loudspeaker
|DSP in active speakers is not a new thing, but arguably until recently, it is not a technology that has realised its full potential. This was proved convincingly by the Kii Three that I wrote ...read more -
Vivid Audio Kaya 45 floorstanding loudspeaker
|While some markets like shiny white or yellow loudspeakers, the majority of the hi‑fi market appears to prefer rectilinear boxes with a wood veneer. It has ever been thus and only slowly will it change, ...read more -
Totem Sky Tower floorstanding loudspeaker
|Montreal based speaker manufacturer Totem Acoustic has always been closely identified with company president and chief engineer Vince Bruzzese’s ability to defy expectations for what can be accomplished with bookshelf monitor loudspeakers. Refreshingly, throughout Totem’s ...read more -
Kii Three active loudspeaker system
|Put Bruno Putzeys’ name into a search engine and you get plenty of results. He is ranked among such audio engineering luminaries as Nelson Pass and Siegfried Linkwitz, yet his name has yet to enter ...read more -
Kuzma CAR-60 moving coil cartridge
|They say that nothing lasts forever and, judging by the standards of hi-fi fashion, that certainly seems to be true. How long did it take for diamond tweeters, suddenly the must-have audio bauble, to lose ...read more -
Sonus faber Amati Homage Tradition floorstanding loudspeaker
|The long-running Homage series from Sonus faber pays tribute to the finest violin makers of the past with loudspeakers that look and sound fantastic. The Amati has long been the conventional top tower of the ...read more -
Falcon Acoustics LS3/5a stand-mount loudspeaker
|There is almost no point in discussing some parts of this loudspeaker. The BBC-designed LS3/5a is the stuff of legend, and in our little world as well-known, as ubiquitous, and as popular as the original ...read more