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Bowers & Wilkins 702 Signature floorstanding loudspeaker
|The advantages of large-scale manufacturing become immediately apparent on unpacking this loudspeaker; the quality of finish is in the Premier League and distinctly higher than is achieved by most smaller companies at this price point. ...read more -
LA SOUND “Corium” loudspeaker and interconnect cables
|You may not be shocked to hear that the overwhelming majority of cable brands do not actually manufacture their own cable. To do so requires pretty serious machinery that churns out miles of the stuff ...read more -
REL Carbon Special subwoofer
|REL has come a long way since a Welshman started it in search of more realistic organ pipe sounds in his sitting room. Richard Lord sold the company to Sumiko over a decade ago, the ...read more -
Primare R35 solid-state, MM/MC phono stage
|Load settings on a phono stage are rather like filter settings on DACs; not everyone bothers to try them out, yet their effects can be pretty dramatic. The degree of effect is often more apparent ...read more -
Fidata HFAS1-XS20U Solid‑state music server with SSD storage
|It seems the Japanese are not very keen on using computers with their audio systems, but they are not averse to using what are effectively data drives to stream audio so long as it can ...read more -
Canor AI 1.20 integrated amplifier
|A few years back I visited Canor in Slovakia, their facility in Prešov is pretty impressive, modern and well organised, and as we looked round it became clear that a number of well know British ...read more -
ATC SCM7 stand-mount loudspeaker
|The third compact, sealed box two-way loudspeaker to come my way in a month is also the longest established and most affordable. The SCM7 is Gloucestershire based ATC’s smallest model at only 12 inches high, ...read more -
Michi P5 preamplifier and S5 power amplifier
|Rotel is one of those companies that doesn’t often grab the headlines much these days yet it has a heritage stretching back over 50 years. In the late 1980s, its entry level integrated amplifiers had ...read more -
B.audio B.dpr one preamplifier and B.amp one power amplifier
|Only a Frenchman would have the audacity to build an amplifier with a volume control that’s essentially the wrong way round, that is, the level goes up as you turn it anti-clockwise. You get some ...read more -
Xavian Corallo Esclusivo standmount loudspeakers
|Infinite baffle loudspeakers seem to be a bit like buses, you wait literally years and then two come along at once. First the cast iron Jern11 and now the aesthetically more conventional Xavian Corallo Esclusivo. ...read more -
Blue Note Re:imagined
|It says something when arguably the most important label in jazz comes to London to find artists to cover classic tunes from its enviable back catalogue. And what it says is London is where it’s ...read more -
Norma HS-IPA1 integrated amplifier
|At the time of writing (in late March 2020), coronavirus was wreaking havoc across the world, but in Italy the situation was more extreme than average, which must have made the production of audio electronics ...read more -
Jern11 stand-mount loudspeaker
|If you look at the world of loudspeaker design it is very crowded and the diversity of materials used in cabinet construction is wider than it has ever been, yet up until recently no one ...read more -
Totem Skylight stand-mount loudspeaker
|Every time I hear Totem speakers, which is usually at international audio shows, they sound bigger and more extended than they should. It’s not unusual to be impressed by bass extension from small speakers, but ...read more -
English Electric 8Switch streaming audio network switch
|English Electric was once a titan of 20th century British engineering, building trains, steam turbines, guided missiles and even mainframe computers. It was formed out of several companies after the first world war and went ...read more