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Nordost QPoint harmonisers and QSource power supply
|Although several cable brands have branched out into other fields in audio, Nordost was the first to extend its coherent cable ethos out to products that work throughout a good audio system. These have included ...read more -
IsoTek EVO3 Syncro Uni DC offset blocking device
|The IsoTek EVO3 Syncro Uni is a small, relatively light brushed aluminium box. It has an IEC output on one side and the plug socket of your country on the other. It is designed to ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Cables, Power Products, and Accessories of the year
|Accessory of the Year: Critical Mass Systems CenterStage2 Although Critical Mass Systems is best known for its large and heavy rack systems, perhaps its most important product is the CenterStage2, a range of three equipment ...read more -
Transparent Reference PowerIsolator power conditioner
|It’s not so long ago that power conditioners were not a ‘thing’, especially in the UK and many European audio circles. We used to pride ourselves on having ‘clean’ power, as the juice coming into ...read more -
Ansuz X Series cables and power conditioner
|When it comes to gnomic discussions about cables, Ansuz gets close to winning the prize. Normally, when it comes to discussions about cables, there isn’t great deal to talk about, but what there is usually ...read more -
CH Precision, Wilson Benesch, and Nordost system
|Suggesting that high-end audio has anything in common with Little Orphan Annie might seem like a stretch, but in one way at least they share a reality: for audio pilgrims who sign up to the ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata Research
|As part of our Hi-Fi+ Guide to Audio Cables & Power Products 2017 (available as a free download online at hifiplus.com/buyers_guides/6/) we spoke to Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata Research about his discoveries in cable and ...read more -
Gutwire Perfect Ground grounding cable
|OK, I need to admit to some deep bias against this product from the outset. Try as I might, I just can’t get my head around the concept of something with a 13A mains plug ...read more -
Audioplan Powerstar SIII, Powerplant 10, and Finefilter S power products
|Audioplan is a long-standing German company, known for its loudspeakers, cables, and power products. In the early 1990s, when the British audio world was going through one of its insular phases, Audioplan was one of ...read more -
Exclusive Munich Preview: Nordost QKORE grounding system
|Sometimes we as journalists are privy to items way prior to their launch. Such is the case with Nordost’s QKORE trio of ground units. I was told about these at CES this year, but was ...read more -
Synergistic Research system tuning (Part 2)
|Last month, we discussed the first of a two-part feature on Synergistic Research’s innovative system tuning components. At that point, we began by discussing the company’s Unified Energy Field system. The next step was to ...read more -
Vertex AQ Aneto DC Offset blocker
|A company like Vertex AQ has so many entry-points on its ‘Systematic Approach’ pathway that sometimes it’s difficult to know precisely where to start. However, in systems with a specific hum or buzzing issue, that ...read more -
Vertex AQ Pico Grounding Blocks
|Any discussion of the Pico by Vertex AQ is ultimately as much about the philosophy of listening, as it is about audio electronics. The Pico blocks (and for that matter, the Jaya power filters) are ...read more -
CES 2012 Report - Alan Sircom on AC Power Products, Cables and Accessories
|Given that the cable business was arguably the first to raise the stakes in the price war, this year’s launches were almost subdued. There were product launches, but new “sharp intake of breath” products were ...read more -
Quantum QB 6 & Nordost Sort Kones (Hi-Fi+)
|For years it was cables, but these days there is little that rattles the cage of the committed audio puritan like mains conditioners and equipment support cones. Reviews of either is almost bound to elicit ...read more