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Kudos Titan 707 floorstanding loudspeaker
|This review has been a while in the making – I first started talking to the Kudos guys at shows about a decade ago. In the loudspeaker equivalent of the ‘snog, marry, avoid’ game (which ...read more -
Moor Amps Angel Preamplifier and Angel 6 Power Amplifier
|Moor Amps isn’t exactly a household name and, to be fair, aside from the relative newness of the company, there’s a reason for that: the Angel Pre and Angel 6 power amp is this fledgling ...read more -
Hegel H190 integrated amplifier and Amphion Argon 7LS floorstanding loudspeakers
|We’ve put together a pairing for this review of the substantial yet understated Amphion Argon 7LS, floorstanding loudspeakers and the Hegel H190 integrated amplifier which, with its built-in DAC and generous 150W output offers pretty ...read more -
Accuphase E-650 integrated amplifier
|Having recently spent several happy weeks with Accuphase’s E-370 integrated amplifier for issue 178, the prospect of spending yet more quality time with one of its bigger siblings, the 30W Class A E-650 was too ...read more -
Accuphase E-370 integrated amplifier
|It’s eleven years since I reviewed the Accuphase E-213 for this magazine. That was then the entry-level integrated amplifier; the next model up the line, the E-308, was similar in rated power output but a ...read more -
Fyne Audio F702 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Fyne Audio is a relatively new kid on the hi-fi block, formed in 2017 by several former Tannoy staff, following the takeover of Tannoy by a conglomerate a couple of years earlier. They’ve not wasted ...read more -
Sugden Masterclass ANV-50 integrated amplifier
|It was ‘Birdland’ that did it. I’d been listening to the Sugden Masterclass ANV-50 for a day or two. Not careful, reviewer type listening, you understand, just getting to know you listening, and it had ...read more -
Spendor A4 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Back when I was just getting interested in audio, ahem mumble years ago, the Spendor BC1 was one of the darlings of the hi-fi press, and rightly so. But to some Spendor is a brand ...read more -
AVM Evolution CS 5.2 streaming CD Receiver
|When I was an impressionable teenager, lusting after pretty much everything Bang & Olufsen produced, my parents’ rather more prosaic aspirations leant towards a music centre. For readers who don’t have roots in the seventies ...read more -
VPI Prime Scout turntable
|The VPI Prime Scout is the entry-level model in VPI’s core ‘Prime’ range of turntables, which consists of three models: the Prime Scout, Prime, and Prime Signature, the other two of which have already been ...read more -
The North West Audio Show, 2016
|Success brings its own problems. The popularity of this new show means that, in its third year, demand for rooms from exhibitors has outstripped the capacity of Cranage Hall to accommodate it. Not wishing to ...read more -
Graham Audio LS3/5 standmount loudspeaker
|Once upon a time, the BBC conducted a study aimed at predicting the acoustic properties of studios, and to help with this it constructed an 1/8 scale model of its large Maida Vale studio. A ...read more -
Tannoy Revolution XT 8F floorstanding loudspeakers
|I first heard the Tannoy Revolution XT 8F at the Bristol Sound and Vision show in February 2015 and it was one of those moments where, even given the unfamiliar context of a show environment ...read more -
Russell K Red 150 floorstanding loudspeaker
|You may be looking at the picture and thinking “Ho hum, just another mid-sized two-and-a-half-way floorstander, with doped paper cones and a soft dome tweeter”. And you’d be wrong. Yes, it is a mid sized, ...read more -
Audio Origami PU7 and Uniarm tonearms
|The call was from the inestimable Johnnie Nilsen at Audio Origami in Glasgow, who wanted to tell me about his new tonearm, the Uniarm which, you won’t be surprised to learn, is a unipivot design. ...read more