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Melco brightens up lockdown with new home demonstration offer via its UK retail network
|25th March 2020, Surrey, UK: Melco has unveiled a new offer designed to help locked-down music lovers get the most from their collections. Acknowledging that Melco dealers are currently not able to adequately support customers ...read more -
Innuos ZENmini Mk 3 music server with LPSU power supply
|Innuos’ range of ZEN music servers each have their specific niche, that perfectly suits significant parts of the audio enthusiast market. As its name suggests, the Statement speaks to the high-ender who has a cost-no-object ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins Formation Duo active stand-mount loudspeakers
|It’s been almost three years now since the Munich High End Show when the audio world discovered that Bowers & Wilkins had changed hands. Long-time owner Joe Atkins had sold to a Californian entrepreneur with ...read more -
Astell&Kern ACTIVO CT10 portable digital audio player
|When my review of the Astell&Kern A&Futura SE100 appeared on the website of our sister magazine The Absolute Sound, the first reader comment was, “Yet another DAP from A&K? Whoopee.” Snide, but I get it. ...read more -
Totaldac d1-core digital converter/streamer
|Owning a Totaldac product is like an audiophile badge of honour. You fought valiantly in the Mainstream Wars and this is your reward. It will never be That Brand Everyone Knows because it’s just too ...read more -
MOON by Simaudio 700i v2 Integrated amplifier and 780D v2 streaming DAC
|For a company that’s usually pretty level-headed and not generally given to fits of over-excitement, MOON seems a little impatient just now. I mean, is it me or is a 39th birthday an unusual anniversary ...read more -
FiiO M7 portable digital audio player
|Off the cuff, most people who know their way around the personal audio scene would say £200 seems like quite a reasonable jumping-off point for a decently equipped, good sounding DAP. FiiO’s M7 portable high-resolution ...read more -
dCS Bartòk Network DAC
|We are now well into what I might describe as the second-age of high-end steaming and dCS has completed its renaissance by discontinuing all its older models, leaving the company with three distinct product levels. ...read more -
Black is the new black for Devialet
|A BRAND NEW DESIGN FROM DEVIALET Until now, the Devialet Phantom series has been available only in white, but now Devialet has unveiled a new, Matte Black version of its Phantom REACTOR ultra-compact speaker. The ...read more -
Linn launches the world’s best-sounding wireless speaker at Harrods
|LONDON 11th October 2019: Linn, the Glasgow-based high-end audio specialist, unveils Series 3, an all-in-one, wireless speaker unlike any other and the embodiment of five decades of audio innovation. Launching in their brand-new flagship showroom ...read more -
Sony DMP-Z1 Signature Series Digital Music Player with headphone amp and DAC
|When Sony unveiled the DMP-Z1 it drew the attention of the audiophile press like a perfectly cooked steak in a room full of starved Paleo dieters. But it was not so much its looks or ...read more -
Cayin N5iiS digital audio player
|Cayin is a Chinese high-end audio electronics manufacturer best known for its full-sized amplification and source components. In recent years, though, the firm has worked to create an ever-expanding range of personal audio components, including ...read more -
Triangle AIO 3 Bluetooth loudspeaker system
|Like many audio brands – especially, it seems, audio loudspeaker brands – French loudspeaker manufacturer Triangle is up for a spot of diversifying. The new AIO system is the result. There are two AIO products ...read more -
KEF LSX active stand-mount loudspeaker
|Reviewers both love and hate in equal measure reviews that basically write themselves. We love them because they are so easy to write – words fall onto the page without a care. We hate them ...read more -
Chord Electronics Hugo TT 2 DAC/M Scaler upscaler
|As many music lovers know, the legend of Chord Electronics’ Hugo family of products started several years back with the first generation Hugo, which was a wildly overachieving portable headphone amp/DAC that took the marketplace ...read more