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Everything gets better
|The Bespoke Audio Company proudly announces the début UK showing of our highly acclaimed, award winning pre-amplifier this weekend at Bristol Sound & Vision 2016, Friday 26th – Sunday 28th February 2016, Marriott City Centre ...read more -
Optoma NuForce DAC80 DAC and STA120 power amplifier
|A few short years ago, NuForce was the audio industry’s enfant terrible: a new brand, growing at an exponential rate, with some of the best products in every category it touched. It couldn’t last, and ...read more -
CES Scene: A Baker’s Dozen of new Amplification Components
|The last of my CES show coverage topics involved high-end amplification components, which category proved to be a veritable hotbed of product development activity for the show. For this reason, I’ve expanded by coverage to ...read more -
Constellation Audio Inspiration Preamp 1.0 line preamp and Mono 1.0 power amplifier
|The march of progress in high-end audio often seems to be centred on the price of the product. As things get better, so prices get ever higher. It rarely goes in the other direction. But ...read more -
Naim Audio Statement amplifiers
|Naim Audio’s Statement is the easiest amplifier I’ve ever had to review. The clue is in the name. It’s every inch a statement piece from the brand, and making that statement demands a hell of ...read more -
Naim 'DR' power amps and upgrades
|In the wake of the ambitious NAC S1 and NAP S1 Statement project, Naim Audio has recently revised its ‘classic’ amplifier line up to incorporate some of the more significant advances resulting from the exhaustive ...read more -
Lindemann/ProAc system
|Often, when building a system, it’s a good idea to put yourself in the hands of a dealer you trust. Done right, such systems produce rare and wonderful results, as with the system reviewed here, ...read more -
GamuT M250i mono power amplifier
|In anticipation of my review of the GamuT RS3 loudspeaker in Hi-Fi+ issue 127, the GamuT team asked if I might consider driving the loudspeakers with a pair of their 250Wpc M250i monoblock amplifiers (priced ...read more -
Cyrus Audio Stereo 200 power amplifier
|The audio amplifier is in transition, because it’s becoming hard to justify a physically large, heavy, and energy hungry design today. Although Class D operation offers a resolution to all these issues, audiophiles often dismiss ...read more -
GamuT D3i preamplifier and D200i power amplifier
|I have some history with the GamuT D200 power amplifier; the original version was my reference amplifier for many years and powered at least two generations of Bowers & Wilkins 802 Diamond speakers. I liked ...read more -
Constellation Audio Hercules II stereo power amplifier
|Let’s get the headline story out the way first. This Constellation Audio Hercules II stereo amplifier from the company’s Reference Class is the best amplifier I have ever heard, and by a significant margin. OK, ...read more -
The Legacy Continues: Spread Spectrum Technologies (SST) Launches Ane
|California, June 12, 2015 – Spread Spectrum Technologies (SST), pioneered by the late visionary James Bongiorno, officially launches anew with passion and vigor. The renewed SST has new leadership, a new website, social media presence ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Dan D'Agostino interview
|Dan D’Agostino of Dan D’Agostino Audio is one of the easiest designers to interview. Basically, you ask him a question, then ten minutes later when he's stopped talking about that first question, ask him another!. ...read more -
Baker’s Dozen – Audio Electronics at the Munich High End 2015
|Perhaps understandably, Munich’s High End show seems to generate a lot of interest for high-end audio enthusiasts, and as a consequence, manufacturers with new high-end products to launch see this as a golden opportunity to ...read more -
CH Precision D1, C1, and A1 system
|This must rank as one of the most expensive one-make audio systems we’ve ever explored. CH Precision is based in Switzerland and it’s designed and built by people who used to design and build Goldmund ...read more