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CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 – Electronics, Source Components, and Servers/Streamers
|Most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the aforementioned upper floors of the Venetian Hotel, although by tradition some high-end headphone manufacturers continue to exhibit in the LVCC’s South Hall. Added to this, there ...read more -
AVM Inspiration CS2.2 system
|Back in the late 1970s, the music centre (as it was once called) was the popular choice among non-audio enthusiasts. This was a time before ‘small’ and ‘minimal’ were the orders of the day, so ...read more -
Roksan K3 CD player
|For Roksan’s latest K3 electronics range, head honcho Tufan Hashemi chose a rather different style of finish to grace the front panels. It seems he’s bored of the matte black and brushed silver that is ...read more -
Sim Audio Moon 260D Neo and 250i Neo
|Some products arrive with a bang. Suddenly they seem to be everywhere. They are flavour of the month, the new big thing, on the front cover of every magazine, and in the window of every ...read more -
B.M.C. Audio BDCD1.1 CD player and DAC1PreHR DAC/preamp
|Once upon a time, high-end audio meant products that were markedly superior in build and performance than their more entry-level counterparts. It also used to mean products that retained a good resale value even a ...read more -
Cyrus Audio Lyric 09
|Cyrus Audio is no stranger to UK readers, but its half-width ‘singing shoeboxes’ sometimes struggle to make their mark outside of the British Isles. This, coupled with the significant changes in the type of product ...read more -
Norma Revo DS-1
|The REVO DS-1 by NORMA is very much a ‘now’ product. It’s the link between the world of spinning discs and the world of computer audio. We’ve long considered computer audio to be an extra ...read more -
Vitus Audio SCD-025 DAC/CD player
|I have been an admirer of Vitus Audio equipment ever since I heard the original SS-010 Class-A integrated amplifier about eight years ago. There was something so complete and finely balanced about the musical performance ...read more -
CD’s comeback concert?
|In 2011, I spoke with one well-known US distributor who sells, among other things, a brand with a strong presence in the magneto-optical world. If you are considering a high-end CD or SACD player, this ...read more -
OPPO BDP-105D Audiocom Signature
|The first rule of hot-rodding is “start from a good base.” Working with an already excellent donor product gives one a canvas upon which great things can be based. Sadly, that maxim seems entirely lost ...read more -
Show Report: AXPONA 2014 - Digital Audio
|In most cases Hi-Fi+ show reports are presented in prose form with illustrations, but for this section we will take more of an image-intensive ‘Postcards from…’ approach. Thus, this is not an exhaustive report, but ...read more -
MSB Technology Signature Data CD IV
|I hear that MSB is taking off in Asia and the far east. I can’t say I’m surprised. This is a brand that has stuck to its guns and pushed the envelope of digital audio ...read more -
dCS Vivaldi CD/SACD Transport and DAC (part 1) (Hi-Fi Plus)
|Discuss the technicalities of the four-box Vivaldi system with the engineers at the dCS factory and it is very easy to be overwhelmed with the whole thing. They talk with confidence, enthusiasm and real depth, ...read more -
Metronome Technologie CD8 (Hi-Fi+ issue 87)
|It’s perhaps a sign just how important this whole computer audio thing has become that virtually all new CD players today come with computer-friendly inputs. Even Metronome Technologie – one of France’s only dedicated CD ...read more -
Electrocompaniet EMP3 Blu-ray/Universal Disc Player
|For an audio company that isn’t the size of Sony, making a universal disc player is fraught with difficulties today. Despite it being not the rip-roaring success it was hoped to be (Netflix, LoveFilm and ...read more