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Vivid Audio Kaya 45 floorstanding loudspeaker
|While some markets like shiny white or yellow loudspeakers, the majority of the hi‑fi market appears to prefer rectilinear boxes with a wood veneer. It has ever been thus and only slowly will it change, ...read more -
Totem Sky Tower floorstanding loudspeaker
|Montreal based speaker manufacturer Totem Acoustic has always been closely identified with company president and chief engineer Vince Bruzzese’s ability to defy expectations for what can be accomplished with bookshelf monitor loudspeakers. Refreshingly, throughout Totem’s ...read more -
Kii Three active loudspeaker system
|Put Bruno Putzeys’ name into a search engine and you get plenty of results. He is ranked among such audio engineering luminaries as Nelson Pass and Siegfried Linkwitz, yet his name has yet to enter ...read more -
Kuzma CAR-60 moving coil cartridge
|They say that nothing lasts forever and, judging by the standards of hi-fi fashion, that certainly seems to be true. How long did it take for diamond tweeters, suddenly the must-have audio bauble, to lose ...read more -
Sonus faber Amati Homage Tradition floorstanding loudspeaker
|The long-running Homage series from Sonus faber pays tribute to the finest violin makers of the past with loudspeakers that look and sound fantastic. The Amati has long been the conventional top tower of the ...read more -
Falcon Acoustics LS3/5a stand-mount loudspeaker
|There is almost no point in discussing some parts of this loudspeaker. The BBC-designed LS3/5a is the stuff of legend, and in our little world as well-known, as ubiquitous, and as popular as the original ...read more -
Triangle Esprit Australe EZ floorstanding loudspeaker
|I am going to try a spot of mass-hypnosis here. You are feeling calm and relaxed, relaxed and calm. You are feeling sleepier and sleepier. I want you to forget the word ‘price’ for the ...read more -
Dynaudio Music 5 wireless loudspeaker
|A few years ago, products like the Dynaudio Music 5 simply couldn’t exist because the technology that underpins them didn’t exist. Even a couple of years ago, this class of product would come with such ...read more -
iFi Audio Pro iCAN, Chord Hugo2, Final D8000, and Campfire Andromeda system
|As high-performance personal audio systems have evolved, they have become more specialised. Some focus on top class headphones and electronics intended for use within the relative quiet of one’s home, while others centre on advanced, ...read more -
Burson Audio Conductor Virtuoso 2+ headphone DAC preamp
|This is not our first rodeo with Burson Audio. If they even have rodeos in Melbourne, Australia, where Burson Audio is based. We looked at the HA160 headphone amp in Issue 79, and the original ...read more -
Trilogy Audio 903 preamp and 993 power amp
|Trilogy Audio specialises in making valve amplifiers for people who don’t want to look at valves. At least that’s the way it seems when you consider the latest amplifiers in the range. The 903 preamplifier ...read more -
Vicoustic Multifuser DC2 room treatment panels
|About a year and a half ago I moved to a new, downsized home that had a listening space whose acoustic characteristics I did not fully understand. The room is a second storey space and ...read more -
Naim Audio Super Lumina interconnects and loudspeaker cables
|OK, I’ll get this out of the way first. I hate the way the ‘Super Lumina’ logo looks. I get why Naim Audio did this (it’s meant to show superluminal motion in action, itself an ...read more -
Bluewave Get portable headphone amp/DAC
|Taking in the afternoon sun for a spot of al fresco coffee action, I discovered the one big flaw to the Bluewave Get Bluetooth headphone amplifier from Canada. With a dark-coloured headphone cable blending into ...read more -
Raidho TD-4.8 floorstanding loudspeakers
|By big loudspeaker standards, the Raidho TD‑4.8 isn’t actually that big. It stands about as tall as the average middle-aged European and its front baffle is about face-wide. It sits on two outriggers that give ...read more