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Making a Statement
|Naim Audio has been building audio electronics since the 1970s. So, it knows a thing or two about handling the products it’s building. But when you move into making an amplifier of the size, scale, ...read more -
More Power Please Cyrus!
|Cyrus Audio Ltd Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. February 2015 The latest project to emerge from the Cyrus R&D team is a very high power amplifier Stereo 200. Described as a ‘hybrid’ design because it combines a ...read more -
Resolution Audio Cantata Music Center/m100/Pont Neuf system
|When first I proposed this test, I was keen to see the new Resolution Audio Cantata m100 amps, but thought we’d sideline the Cantata ‘Music Center’ CD-streaming-USB-DAC-preamp. The Cantata Music Center is far from old ...read more -
CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 – Electronics, Source Components, and Servers/Streamers
|Most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the aforementioned upper floors of the Venetian Hotel, although by tradition some high-end headphone manufacturers continue to exhibit in the LVCC’s South Hall. Added to this, there ...read more -
Aaron No 22 Cineast preamp and No 3 Millennium power amplifier
|This is Aaron’s pre-power system, but it’s a system with a twist. While the No 3. Millennium power amplifier is a stereo design, the preamp – the No 22. Cineast – is designed to handle ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Azur 851D & 851W
|Cambridge Audio may no longer operate in the collegiate city that gave the brand its name, but the product design and engineering is still very much British. Now based in Bermondsey in the heart of ...read more -
AURALiC MERAK mono power amplifiers
|Thus far, Hi-Fi+ has reviewed AURALiC’s TAURUS Mk II headphone amplifier/preamp (issue 105), VEGA Digital Audio Processor (issue 106), and TAURUS PRE balanced output, line-stage preamplifier/headphone amplifier (Issue 111). In this final instalment we take ...read more -
Conrad-Johnson MF2550SE
|Most people associate conrad-johnson with amplification, specifically valve (tube) amplification. But the company has a long history of also producing good solid-state electronics; it just doesn’t do it that often. In fact, the last solid-state ...read more -
AVM Ovation PA8 preamp and SA8.2 power amplifier
|From the outside, the AVM Ovation Series PA8 preamp and SA8.2 power amplifier look like any other big and beefy high-end duo, in the manner of true Americana, but with a softly spoken German accent. ...read more -
Aesthetix launches superlative ‘Signature’ edition of the acclaimed Atlas hybrid power amplifier
|In Greek mythology, Atlas was the Titan who supported the heavens. If you name something after him, it had better be rousing. Fortunately the Atlas amplifier has proved worthy of its name, attracting an impressive ...read more -
Albarry M1108 power amplifiers
|Okay, so I was wrong. In my review of the M608 amps for issue 90 I cited Albarry’s designer, Neil Burnett, saying “He thinks its 60 Watts output is enough for most situations when you’ve ...read more -
Hegel H80 amplifier
|The role of amplifier has changed recently. The nexus role of ‘curating’ sources and feeding them to a pair of loudspeakers remains, but increasingly ‘sources’ have become a single computer source. That means increasing onus ...read more -
CES 2014: Electronics (Amplifiers)
|OK, there is an elephant in the room when it comes to audio amplification this year – Naim Audio. By upping the ante by an order of magnitude, to make its Statement NAC S1 preamp ...read more -
Constellation Audio Virgo preamplifier and Centaur power amplifier
|When Constellation Audio first appeared at CES three years ago, I was not the only one to be taken aback by the quality and style of the casework. However, I was the first to say ...read more -
Krell Phantom II Preamplifier & Evolution 402E Power Amplifier (Hi-Fi+)
|In gearing up for our 100th issue, there was an inevitable look back at past issues. In the process, I found that we last reviewed the Krell Evolution 402 precisely 50 issues ago. Now in ...read more