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VPI Prime 21+
One of the most bewildering aspects of reviewing hi-fi components can be staying on top of the impossibly complex model numbers given to products – often with an explanation that only the manufacturer...
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Bowers & Wilkins 603 S2 Anniversary Edition
Twenty five years is a long time in the world of hi-fi. It’s sufficient to see off many rivals altogether, so it’s impressive that Bowers & Wilkins has now been producing the 600 Series for a...
View ArticleScansonic M20
It’s an abiding argument among audio enthusiasts – should you go for small standmount speakers or floorstanding designs? Assuming you’re not in a small room, where hulking great towers might overdrive...
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iFi Audio iDSD Diablo
A trusted travel companion, the compact xDSD DAC/amp (HFC 439) combined attractive sound quality with a smart, pocket-sized design. The company’s new iDSD Diablo isn’t quite so neatly designed –...
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System Audio Legend 5.2 Silverback
What is it to be an audiophile? The emergence of System Audio’s Legend 5.2 Silverback digital wireless streaming system once again poses a seemingly innocent but actually rather intimate question. Do...
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Hegel V10
It’s 1964, and offstage at a folk festival in Newport, a tense Robert Allen Zimmerman makes the final adjustments to his guitar as The Weavers’ Ronnie Gilbert announces to an excitable crowd: “And here...
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Yamaha YH-E700A
In the face of global lockdown, the headphone market has held up relatively well, and Yamaha has in turn been tweaking its inventory of late. The YH-E700A is a mixture of some fairly commonly seen...
View ArticleKlipsch introduces Austin, Nashville and Detroit Bluetooth speakers
Klipsch has unveiled its Music City Series of Bluetooth speakers, which features Austin, Nashville and Detroit. All utilise Bluetooth 5.3 allowing the user to move the speaker up to 10m from the...
View ArticleFebruary 2024 issue now on sale
Welcome to the 2023 Yearbook issue In 1961 Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley wrote an awesome musical called Stop The World I Want To Get Off. I think I know what they were getting at. The news ain’t...
View ArticleOrtofon updates 2M Series
Ortofon has added to its 2M Series of moving-magnet cartridges with the 2MR range, which the company says takes the existing cartridge and re-shapes it into a new ‘reduced’ housing that makes it...
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Rotel Michi X3
As years go, 1993 was a fairly inauspicious 12 months for the British music industry. With the nadir reached as Meat Loaf’s I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) became the biggest-selling...
View ArticleFiiO introduces KB3 keyboard with built-in headphone DAC/amplifier
FiiO has launched its KB3, a hi-res hi-fi keyboard with a built-in headphone DAC/amplifier. The KB3 is compatible with Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS, and incorporates two efficient CS43131 DACs, as...
View ArticleBryston unveils BP-19 analogue preamplifier
PMC Distribution UK is introducing its Bryston ultra high-performance BP-19 analogue preamplifier, which features an over sized toroidal power transformer, two pairs of balanced XLR inputs and four...
View ArticleCyrus adds Classic POWER and Power-XR power amplifiers
Cyrus has introduced a pair of new stereo power amplifiers – one each for its XR and Classic ranges. The company explains: “These new Class A/B stereo amplifiers have a lower noise floor than previous...
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JBL 4349
“Don’t look back in anger” a certain Gallagher brother once sang and who better to exhort the benefit of the past than JBL? Though the American speaker specialist might be more commonly associated with...
View ArticleElipson introduces XLS7 loudspeaker
French company Elipson has unveiled the final addition to its Heritage line of speakers – the XLS7 bookshelf model, joining the XLS11 and XLS15 standmounts. The company says: “The XLS7 brings all the...
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Bowers & Wilkins 606 S2 Anniversary Edition
One infamously ungrammatical piece of advice the fast moving, fiercely competitive world of hi-fi hasn’t exactly taken to heart is: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. A much snugger fit could be former...
View ArticleSonus faber adds Lumina II Amator and Lumina V Amator loudspeakers
Italian company Sonus faber has added two new speakers to its Lumina collection – the Lumina II Amator bookshelf and the Lumina V Amator floorstander, which boast new wood front panels with a glossy...
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