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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 -
Naim NDX 2/XPS DR Music Streamer and PSU
|I used to wonder why Naim persevered with DIN connections when the rest of the audio world had given up on them decades ago. They’re not particularly nice things and must be a pig to ...read more -
Melco Audio N10 music server and D100 ripper
|This is always going to be a bit of a hard sell, but we should be celebrating that we are in the finest times for music servers and streamers. We have finally – in many ...read more -
Kanto TUK active Bluetooth loudspeaker
|Such is the delta of change within the audio industry that products like the Kanto TUK weren’t so much a rarity as functionally non-existent just a few years ago. Then, there were a few difficult ...read more -
WIN! A Melco N100 digital music library worth £1,800
|We have collaborated with our friends at Melco to bring you a fantastic competition for a chance to win a N100 digital music library worth £1,800. Our Editor Alan Sircom recently did a web exclusive ...read more -
Exclusive: Stack Audio Link USB streaming bridge
|Stack Audio is a small British company that does things to sources! It makes a series of clever upgrades for the ever-popular Linn LP12, but recently it turned to the digital side with the Link. ...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 -
Web exclusive: Melco N100 networked music server
|If you get ten computer audio experts drunk – I mean really, tongue-looseningly, inhibition-dropping, just pre-unconscious honesty drunk – you’ll likely hear the same complaint; the problem is the computer. A computer has amazing advantages ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA G1 network streaming DAC
|I’ll be the first to admit it – Hi-Fi+has covered a lot of AURALiC products in recent years. Even though this is my first review of the brand’s products, practically every product the company has ...read more -
Astell&Kern A&futura SE100 digital audio player
|Astell&Kern almost singlehandedly created the market for high-end portable music players. Currently they have players priced from less than £600 (for the AK70 MkII) to more than £3,000 (for the SP1000). The SE100, which is ...read more -
Lumin X1 music streamer
|Lumin sprung out of nowhere a couple of years ago. The Hong Kong-based brand was initially dismissed by the audio industry’s xenophobes as some kind of a rip-off of a well-known popular streamer from the ...read more -
Wired to the MOON? Moon 780D v2, Moon 700i v2 + Nordost
|It’s a triple product launch weekend at Loud & Clear on Friday 26th & Saturday 27th April. We have two stonking new heavyweights from MOON by Simaudio – the 700i v2integrated amplifier and 780D v2 ...read more -
WIN! A Lumin D2 Music Server worth £1,845
|We have teamed up with those bright sparks from Lumin to bring you an exciting competition for a chance to win a D2 Music Server worth £1,845! Lumin is one of the most important brands ...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