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BetterCables Silver Serpent AIR/Blue Truth Reference cables
|BetterCables of Broadlands VA (some 30 miles west of Washington DC) is a maker of high-value, no-nonsense, USA made cables. In an industry where a single pair of interconnect cables can cost as much as ...read more -
Synthesis ROMA 14DC+ CD player
|Although I know it’s an unrealistic expectation, I always hope and pray that any new CD player I encounter will have an immediate and transforming effect on my entire silver disc collection – in much ...read more -
Gold Note DS‑10 streaming DAC preamp and PA‑10 power amplifiers
|E.F. Schumacher’s famous 1973 book ‘Small is Beautiful’ never seemed to have resonance in the world of high-end audio. We like our audio equipment big and heavy, even if the reasons for such scale are ...read more -
Mellow Acoustics FrontRo hybrid 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 -
Arya Audio Labs RevOpod vibration reduction feet
|The world is a funny place sometimes. Arya Audio is a British based company that makes high performance cables and damping feet (and an innovative drive unit in search of a loudspeaker!). The products are ...read more -
Computer Audio Design Ground Control-Reference grounding box
|When it comes to audio, it seems to be hard to get majority agreement on anything, but the one exception to that rule is the broad concept that less is (generally speaking) more. But even ...read more -
Townshend Audio Allegri Reference Line-stage passive preamplifier
|Max Townshend is not the sort of guy to make a product and then focus on marketing and selling it; he is an engineer to the core and cannot stop thinking of ways to improve ...read more -
Moon Audio Black Dragon cable system
|America’s Moon Audio is located in Cary, North Carolina in proximity to North Carolina’s famous research triangle. Living in and around the sophisticated vibes created by some of America’s top tier universities has rubbed off ...read more -
Ansuz Darkz Record Stabilizers
|If you ask three audiophiles their opinion, you’ll get four answers. When it comes to playing a record, the number of opinions rises exponentially. Take the notion of placing something atop an LP, for example; ...read more -
PMC fact.12 Signature floorstanding loudspeaker
|The three-strong fact range from PMC covers a lot of ground. Originally launched in the ‘teens’, the first fact-trio consisted of a fact.3 stand-mount, the fact.8 floorstander and the flagship fact.12 tower. Times have changed, ...read more -
Focal Arche Headphone Amplifier/DAC/Preamplifier
|Focal are known principally for their transducers, both great and small. Given that fact, the Arche headphone amplifier/DAC/preamplifier/headphone stand may seem like a major departure from their usual offerings. But when you consider what can ...read more -
Innuos PhoenixUSB reclocker
|Innuos is best known as the music server champion; the company’s ZEN line of dedicated media servers that are loved as much for their platform-agnosticism as they are for their excellent performance. They range in ...read more -
Naim Audio Nait XS 3 integrated amplifier
|Note: This review was written in April during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK. Rather It’s 2020 and it’s a lockdown. That gives one time and impetus to ponder nonsense past, present and future. ...read more -
Blue Horizon Professional Rack System
|It is truly remarkable how segmented the practice of hi‑fi has become. From the obsession with individual product reviews to the narrow assumption of silver bullet solutions, from the digital arms race to the one ...read more -
Ausounds AU-Flex-ANC wireless neckband earphone
|We’ve been following the wireless personal audio market with interest. When the Apple iPhone waved ‘goodbye’ to the ubiquitous mini-jack connector, the personal audio world went into a temporary meltdown, then quickly got its act ...read more