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Marantz PM-KI Ruby integrated amplifier
|Editor’s Note: This review was commissioned and originally published before Ken Ishiwata’s recent departure from Marantz! I thought I was doing well to get 30 years under my belt in this business but Ken Ishiwata ...read more -
ATC SCM100SE floorstanding speaker
|Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC) has been making drive units and loudspeakers since 1974 and building a fan base in the hi-fi market for the performance quality of its systems for over two decades. Modelled on ...read more -
Stirling Broadcast LS3/5a V3 stand-mount loudspeaker
|There can be few more iconic loudspeakers than the LS3/5a. Designed by the BBC in the early seventies for use as a outside broadcast monitor it has been licenced by all manner of companies over ...read more -
Leema Sirius digital music streamer/server
|Leema missed a trick when choosing the name for this their first digital streamer/server. It seems clear to some of us that it should have been called the Leema Prima Streamer. As it is the ...read more -
Russell K Red 120 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Russell Kauffman has been in this industry for as long as I can remember; he has worked for Bowers & Wilkins, Morel, and was a regular on Paul Messenger’s legendary blind listening tests in the ...read more -
Arcam SA20 integrated amplifier
|Arcam has been through a turbulent few years. In 2012 it became a subsidiary of Canadian conglomerate JAM Industries whose main fields are pro audio, music, and lighting. Five years later Arcam was bought by ...read more -
Audiovector QR5 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Audiovector is a company that gets a lot of coverage but still doesn’t get the recognition it deserves! I guess some of that is because there are still a lot of Danish speaker makers and ...read more -
Revel Performa M126Be stand-mount loudspeaker
|Revel is the high point in Harman’s extensive range of loudspeaker brands; it has the luxury of sharing facilities with JBL, but doesn’t have to make mass market products in the way that behemoth does. ...read more -
Marantz SA-KI Ruby CD/SACD player
|When Ken Ishiwata was lured into working for Marantz in 1978 he had already been at Pioneer Japan for ten years. The story goes that the European base that Superscope had created for Marantz in ...read more -
Elipson Prestige Facet 24F floorstanding loudspeaker
|Elipson is France’s oldest speaker brand. Founded in 1938, it ran as an independent company until 2008 and during that time never exported its products. Which says a lot for the strength and patriotism of ...read more -
Innuos Statement music server
|If you read my review of the Innuos Zenith SE you will know that I considered that server to be a game changer, a product that redefined what was possible with digital audio. It did ...read more -
Tellurium Q Statement cable system
|It’s not hard to be cynical about cables: after all, how hard can it be to solder some plugs onto piece of twin-core wire and build a speaker cable? Yet most people can hear differences ...read more -
ELAC Vela BS 403 stand‑mount loudspeakers
|ELAC has clearly grasped that if you are to sell loudspeakers to an audience that would instead prefer things were invisible (or at least no bigger than a Coke can), you have to make it ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 606 stand-mount loudspeaker
|Things are afoot in Steyning. Bowers & Wilkins’ research facility in the sleepy Sussex town is being broken down and boxed up, but fear not; this is not the end of the UK’s most extensively ...read more -
Aurender S5W active loudspeaker system
|We are living in an age where convenience trumps quality almost every time; commercially speaking MP3 makes all other music formats look insignificant and lossy streaming is so much bigger than its pricey lossless cousin ...read more