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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 -
Big speakers, bold vinyl, and beer!
|I’m not sure I was particularly good this year, so I didn’t have any great expectations that anything featured below would find their way into my Christmas stocking (and fitting some of them into a ...read more -
Avid Diva II turntable
|I’m not what you would call an early adopter. I resisted getting a mobile phone for years, and smartphones and tablets have only lately entered my life. It was the same with CD players, and ...read more -
DigiBit Aria Mini media player
|If you’re new to music servers, as I am, then I commend to you the DigiBit Aria Mini. Partly, that’s performance-based, of course, but a goodly chunk of my approval stems from the fact that ...read more -
Monitor Audio Silver 8 floorstanding loudspeaker
|It’s strange, but the only people who don’t realise just how mind-bendingly huge the British audio brand Monitor Audio has become… are the British. We still associate the brand with those beautifully finished loudspeakers of ...read more -
Audiomica Europa Ultra Reference and Genimides Ultra Reference
|If we’re honest, when we describe a cable as ‘very good’ or even ‘excellent’, all we’re really saying is that it spoils the performance of the system less than the alternatives. Whether you agree or ...read more -
Brodmann F2
|When you go to a live concert, where do you sit? Are you a stalwart occupant of the first five rows, keen to hear everything the conductor hears, including the rustling as he turns the ...read more