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Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grand Reference loudspeakers
|There is a perplexing and occasionally bizarre dichotomy that exists at the heart of audio fashion and, by extension (or perhaps as a result of) reviewing. The products that get the most attention seem to ...read more -
DarTZeel CTH-8550 integrated amplifier
|Every musician, regardless of their chosen instrument, is looking for their voice and not just their own sound. When I listen to a great piano player, saxophonist or violinist, I am always aware of the ...read more -
1MORE True Wireless ANC in-ear headphones
|The headphone world thought the sky was falling when Apple decided to can – pun intended – the headphone socket. While there were still ways to use a wired headphone, pretty much on that day, ...read more -
SVS SB-2000 Pro subwoofer
|In the past, subwoofers were broadly divided between those that made a lot of noise for cinema, and the more subtle, faster subs that added some gentle reinforcement to audio systems. And generally, the divide ...read more -
Primare R35 solid-state, MM/MC phono stage
|Load settings on a phono stage are rather like filter settings on DACs; not everyone bothers to try them out, yet their effects can be pretty dramatic. The degree of effect is often more apparent ...read more -
WestminsterLab Standard cables
|It’s easy to fall into ‘silo thinking’ in audio; where a company that is best known in one category cannot ‘branch out’ into another. Which means when WestminsterLab, best known for its small but deceptively ...read more -
Fidata HFAS1-XS20U Solid‑state music server with SSD storage
|It seems the Japanese are not very keen on using computers with their audio systems, but they are not averse to using what are effectively data drives to stream audio so long as it can ...read more -
APL DSD-SR Mk 2 digital converter
|There are two opposing forces in high-end audio, especially digital high-end audio. The first is the notion that the best products can only be made by large teams of engineers, each an expert in their ...read more -
Mellow Acoustics FrontRo floorstanding electrostatic loudspeaker
|Mellow Acoustics FrontRo is a very unusual looking — make that ‘unique’ looking — loudspeaker. That’s partly because it’s a hybrid electrostatic, but that is only one contributing factor. Designed by Josh Ford, the FrontRo ...read more -
Canor AI 1.20 integrated amplifier
|A few years back I visited Canor in Slovakia, their facility in Prešov is pretty impressive, modern and well organised, and as we looked round it became clear that a number of well know British ...read more -
Gryphon Audio Designs Essence preamp and power amplifier
|By most normal standards, the Essence pre/power amplifier combination would represent the uppermost tier of product performance, size, weight and price. In Gryphon Audio Design’s world, Essence is the starting place in its pre/power line. ...read more -
Franco Serblin Accordo stand-mount loudspeaker
|Designers come and go, but the true artisans and masters of an art... they are the ‘once in a generation’ folk. People talk about Stradivarius violins not just because of the output of generations of ...read more -
ATC SCM7 stand-mount loudspeaker
|The third compact, sealed box two-way loudspeaker to come my way in a month is also the longest established and most affordable. The SCM7 is Gloucestershire based ATC’s smallest model at only 12 inches high, ...read more -
CH Precision L10 line-stage preamplifier and M10 twin-chassis power amplifier
|You might well think we’re getting pretty good at this hi-fi thing. After all, we’ve been at it a while and, reading the press, you could easily conclude that, as the parade of ‘latest, greatest’ ...read more -
Raidho TD1.2 Standmount loudspeaker
|You reach a point in the track ‘Trans-Am’ (on the album Sleeps With Angels) when Neil Young’s guitar takes solo flight, a coda rather than a middle eight, the emotional release valve for the steady, ...read more