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Moon Audio Silver Dragon V1 IEM Cable (Playback 51)
|Something there is in the minds of serious audiophiles and music lovers that can’t resist trying to make good things better—a philosophy that, in a nutshell, is the guiding force behind the North Carolina-based firm ...read more -
High Performance Audio, CEDIA 2011—Part 1
|This is Part 1 of a four-part report on High-Performance Audio at CEDIA 2011, which highlights new products from: AKG, Anthem, Atlantic Technology, AudioQuest, Audio Research Corporation, Bryston, Canton, Cambridge Audio and Cary Audio. Part ...read more -
Audio Smörgasbord: Cables (Hi-Fi+ 80)
|Crystal Cables Standard Diamond Cables Crystal exposes the notion that bigger is better when it comes to hi-fi cables. Most of Crystal Cables are routinely small, slim and elegant, silver designs that sound excellent right ...read more -
MIT Oracle MA-X Loudspeaker Cables (Hi-Fi+)
|When you contemplate £25,000 loudspeaker cables, several things pass through your mind. This is an awful lot of money for what is, in effect, two pieces of wire. This invites the question whether the concept ...read more -
Chord Company Sarum Digital Cable (Hi-Fi+)
|The Chord Company Sarum is a truly magnificent digital interconnect cable that costs £1,500 for a one-metre example. That sounds a pretty stratospheric price for a short length of wire with a plug on either ...read more -
IsoTek Syncro (HiFi+ 77)
|The lines between ‘better power cords’ and ‘active electronics’ blur with the £875 IsoTek Syncro. Essentially, the Syncro is two sets of IsoTek’s Extreme 20A power cable – one with a high-quality, cryo-treated Furutech 13A ...read more -
Tellurium Q Loudspeaker Cables & Interconnects (HiFi+)
|Tellurium Q is a recent entry to an already fairly well-populated field. They have a range of four loudspeaker cables, starting at an entirely sensible ?16 per linear metre and extending to, if not the ...read more -
Linn Majik DS-I Integrated System (HiFi+ 75)
|Strange that Linn products – the company so anti-digital, it used to have people remove digital watches when auditioning its equipment – has ended up at the forefront of the next gen audiophile movement. Or ...read more -
Wireworld Introduces Reference USB Audio Cables
|(Editorial note: As more and more audiophiles explore computer-based digital audio systems, manufacturers of high-performance cables have raced to meet the need for high-quality USB Audio cables. A great example would be the Florida-based firm ...read more -
First Listen: Moon Audio Silver Dragon iPod LOD (Line Out Dock) Cables
|These days there are specialty cables for everything, and the mobile audiophile has to wonder if it is all in the interest of better, more accurate sound. Certainly there are cables that make an audible ...read more -
Show Report: AudioShow 2010
|Portugal is a small southern European country, but when it comes to audio, it has a disproportionately large high-end community. Even its recent buffeting from the economic storms has not dimmed Portugal’s love for good ...read more -
Computer Audio: Everything Makes A Difference
|As more audiophiles dip their toes into computer-based audio they discover, to their dismay, that it's far more complicated than conventional audio. In fact, the level of complexity involved in even a basic computer audio ...read more -
Northern High Fidelity Show... more photos
|Custom tube amp from John Howes. If there's one thing Brits love more than audio... it's audio cake! Ayon's Ibis floorstanding loudspeaker - new to the UK. MIT Oracle MAX loudspeaker cables. If you have ...read more -
JPS Labs Aluminata Interconnect Cable (Hi-Fi+)
|It’s considered good form in Hi-Fi+ to review a whole ‘loom’ of cable as a single entity; interconnect, loudspeaker and mains cables as one. There’s good reason for this – it gives a more consistent ...read more -
Furutech GT2 USB Cable (Playback 26)
|In October, 2009 I posted a blog on the AVguide.com Web site describing my initial reactions to Furutech’s GT2 high-performance USB cable, which were favorable. I thought then, and think now, that the cable made ...read more