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The Hi-Fi+ Directory of High-End Audio Manufacturers, 2019
|We’ve selected and showcased the work of 32 of the finest manufacturers in high-end audio in our exclusive guide. Regardless of price, product type, or brand name, we’ve uncovered the most exciting and innovative companies ...read more -
Sneak Peek: Hi-Fi+ Awards – Accessory of the Year
|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 support feet designed to correct physical impedance mismatching ...read more -
Critical Mass Systems Center Stage2 anti-vibration feet
|Critical Mass Systems is well known for making some of the finest (and largest) high-end audio equipment support systems money can buy. So, it might come as something of a shock to discover that CMS ...read more -
Stillpoints Ultra 6 resonance control filters
|I have been using Stillpoints as a fundamental part of my home system now for around a decade. I say ‘fundamental’ because I think that sums up the nature of their application and musical effectiveness ...read more -
Nordost Sort Kone, Füt, and Lift
|We’ve often discussed Nordost in terms of a complete, systemic, and systematic approach to audio, but that message sometimes gets lost against the company’s complete, systemic, and systematic approach to cables and power. In fact, ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Cables, Power, and Accessories
|Analogue Audio Cable of the Year Chord Sarum Super ARAY Until the recent launch of ChordMusic, Sarum in all its guises was Chord’s top cable. The latest version – Super ARAY – uses a tuned ...read more -
Quadraspire X-Reference equipment support system
|Although the concept of a demonstration at the point of sale is core to high-performance audio, when it comes to equipment support systems, few companies have the guts to actually demonstrate. Quadraspire is one of ...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 -
YAR Audio - Bespoke luxury in the home of bespoke!
|Earlier this year, a new and elegant high-end Italian audio brand appeared. There’s nothing special in that: high-end start-ups appear frequently, and many of the more elegant ones come from the home of Ferrari and ...read more -
Audio Research, Wilson, Crystal, and HRS system
|‘High-end’ is a term with specific meanings but also less specific implications. In audio terms, it’s not just about performance but a particular style of performance. Historically speaking, it exhibits distinct leftist leanings (left of ...read more -
WIN! Six sets of Mad Scientist Audio BlackPod Ceramic Footers worth £179 per set!!!
|We have teamed up with Auckland-based Mad Scientist Audio to give away three sets of the company’s excellent BlackPod Ceramic Footers and three sets of Ceramic BlackPod with TC Ball, designed to sit under any ...read more -
Audio Cabinet Tamara 3 equipment support
|There’s a school of thought that suggests the equipment table itself has no influence over the sound of an audio system, and another that proclaims no system can be considered truly ‘sorted’ until its support ...read more -
Atacama Elite Eco Rack
|Bamboo is one of the buzzwords in the world of audio racks at the moment. In the never-ending search for new and interesting materials bamboo is receiving much attention. But, as Dennis Greenaway of Atacama ...read more -
Pro Audio Bono Anti-Vibration Equipment Support Stand
|Having enthusiastically reviewed PAB’s support platform (see issue 90) I couldn’t wait to try one of their equipment stands. There are two versions. The standard one has a pair of suspended shelves, plus space on ...read more -
Stillpoints (Part Two)
|(Photography by Simon Marsh) Last summer, I took delivery of the latest version of the ESS rack. This is Stillpoints’ ultimate equipment support system and enables resonance-control pockets to be layered upon each other in ...read more