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Totaldac d1-core digital converter/streamer
|Owning a Totaldac product is like an audiophile badge of honour. You fought valiantly in the Mainstream Wars and this is your reward. It will never be That Brand Everyone Knows because it’s just too ...read more -
Final B Series earphones: Part One
|Final is a Japanese personal audio specialist with a reputation for offering products exhibiting very high build quality, innovative designs, and fine sound quality. Lately, Final has been pushing both the envelopes for performance (through ...read more -
Totem Acoustic Tribe Tower floorstanding loudspeaker
|Totem Acoustic makes some wonderful loudspeakers that don’t break the bank, but sometimes – like most loudspeaker designs – they don’t tick as many aesthetic boxes as they do sonic ones. Relative to the rest ...read more -
TechDAS AirForce V turntable
|TechDAS? That’s the ‘open your wallet and repeat after me... help yourself!’ turntable brand, isn’t it? Everything rides on a column of money powered by several air compressors. That’s not for real people, that’s for ...read more -
MOON by Simaudio 700i v2 Integrated amplifier and 780D v2 streaming DAC
|For a company that’s usually pretty level-headed and not generally given to fits of over-excitement, MOON seems a little impatient just now. I mean, is it me or is a 39th birthday an unusual anniversary ...read more -
conrad-johnson ART300 mono power amplifiers
|Back in the late 1970s, when US high-end began to grow out of a burning desire to not put up with mediocrity, there were two main brands pushing valve amplification where all else was solid-state; ...read more -
Arcaydis EB2S stand-mount loudspeaker
|The Arcaydis brand has actually been around for more than twenty years; I reviewed a couple of examples nearly that long ago. However, having run his business as a direct sale operation for several successful ...read more -
Sonner Legato Duo Floorstanding Loudspeaker
|What is ‘real’? Does that question take you back to philosophy lessons, watching The Matrix, or perhaps a college dorm room far past midnight? Please let me clarify, then; in a hi-fi context, what constitutes ...read more -
MrSpeakers VOCE electrostatic headphones
|MrSpeakers is led by its headmaster Dan Clark, a keen-eared headphone enthusiast and an engineer’s engineer. The company takes its name from an earlier phase in Clark’s career where he served as an accomplished loudspeaker ...read more -
Beyerdynamic Aventho Wireless headphones
|Beyerdynamic is a German company with a long history of headphone manufacturing. It has a strong position in the pro headphone market, but has always offered consumer models that are worth checking out. Beyerdynamic has ...read more -
HiFiMAN Ananda open-back planar magnetic headphone
|HiFiMAN is arguably the most prolific producer of high-quality headphones in the world with several new designs introduced each year. In the previous Ultimate Headphone Guide (Summer 2018), I had the pleasure of reviewing HiFiMAN’s ...read more -
Ultrasone Pro 900i headphones
|Ultrasone is a veteran in the personal audio community. Based in Germany, its been building high-performance headphones for over twenty-seven years. Its Edition 7, introduced in 2006, became an instant classic among headphone enthusiasts due ...read more -
Gutwire SV-12, SV-16, and SV-22 power cords
|Gutwire has recently changed its top power cord range. While its Clef and Cube range remains unchanged, its SP series quietly morphed into the SV range, and three of the top four models – the ...read more -
FiiO M7 portable digital audio player
|Off the cuff, most people who know their way around the personal audio scene would say £200 seems like quite a reasonable jumping-off point for a decently equipped, good sounding DAP. FiiO’s M7 portable high-resolution ...read more -
dCS Bartòk Network DAC
|We are now well into what I might describe as the second-age of high-end steaming and dCS has completed its renaissance by discontinuing all its older models, leaving the company with three distinct product levels. ...read more