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Monitor Audio Bronze 200 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Money-no-object, no-holds-barred, uncompromised and uncompromising loudspeakers are dead easy to build. Just use the most expensive and highest-performing components you can find, commission a hot-shot industrial designer to help with the looks, spend as long ...read more -
T+A Elektroakustik Solitaire P-SE Open Back Headphones
|My head’s metaphorical size is open to question, but I am confident there’s nothing unusual about its literal size. I’m an average height and average weight, and I reckon my head is of pretty average ...read more -
Acoustic Energy AE520 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Where do you stand on the notion of ‘quantity’? Do you subscribe to the idea that ‘more is more’? If you like being able to see, as well as hear, an overt indication of the ...read more -
EarMen TR-Amp portable DAC/headphone amplifier
|You wouldn’t have thought the word ‘portable’ could be contentious, would you? And I suppose it isn’t, not in absolute terms. After all, if a piece of electronic equipment (just as a ‘for instance’) is ...read more -
ELAC Vela FS 408 floorstanding speakers
|For a company that’s fast closing in on its 95th year in business, ELAC certainly took its sweet time to become a loudspeaker manufacturer. Taking more than two decades to transition from sonar technology to ...read more -
Linn Majik DSM Network Music Player
|Back in the good old days, the Linn range was made up of sources, amps, and speakers. You built a system of balance around these components – from the source downwards –often carefully guided by ...read more -
Chord Electronics ULTIMA 5 stereo power amplifier
|At the risk of stating the obvious, these are turbulent times. Little in life can be confidently relied upon. So, it is, perhaps, more gratifying than it really should be, to find the unflappable Chord ...read more -
T+A Solitaire P-SE Open Back Headphones
|My head’s metaphorical size is open to question, but I am confident there’s nothing unusual about its literal size. I’m an average height and average weight, and I reckon my head is of pretty average ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 705 Signature stand-mount loudpeakers
|A signature lends validity and authority. A signature speaks of authenticity. Appending a signature makes it official – “If you like it, you shoulda put a signature on it”, as the song so nearly goes. ...read more -
Arcam SA30 Network streaming system
|Some audio equipment functions absolutely perfectly, sounds amazing, and represents excellent value for money – which makes reviewing it pretty straightforward. Some audio equipment functions only spasmodically, sounds rough, and represents questionable value for money ...read more -
Cyrus One Cast Integrated streaming amplifier
|Having a ‘lifestyle’, rather than a plain old-fashioned ‘life’, can make significant demands on your possessions. After all, if you just live a ‘life’, then your belongings are simply part of it. Aspire to a ...read more -
Novafidelity N15D Network streamer
|Changing a brand name can sometimes be tricky. When ‘BackRub’ decided to become ‘Google’, for example, it worked out just fine–mostly because no one had the first idea what ‘BackRub’ was (or ‘Google’ at first, ...read more -
Triangle Borea BR03 stand-mount loudspeakers
|“Never mind the quality, feel the width”. Citing the title of a ‘60s UK sitcom is not the most zeitgeisty way to begin a review, I realise – but it’s nevertheless appropriate, for no other ...read more -
Harman Kardon Citation 500 Wireless loudspeaker
|Lord knows you’re not short of choice when it comes to selecting a wireless, voice-controlled speaker. Every nominally mainstream brand, from the venerable to the no-profile, seems to have a dog in the wireless speaker ...read more -
Linn Series 3 wireless speaker system
|Anyone with even a passing knowledge of high-quality hi-fi knows the name ‘Linn’. Anyone with a more abiding interest knows Linn to be one of the industry’s true innovators, from its Sondek LP12 of the ...read more