Network player Cambridge Audio CXN
New range, new name, new marketplaces: that's just about the narrative of the Cambridge CXN network audio player. Not only does the new model carry the company's new, abbreviated corporate identity, shorn of the word 'Audio', additionally, it leads off an all-new CX range of hi-fi and home cinema components...
New range, new name, new marketplaces: that's just about the narrative of the Cambridge CXN network audio player. Not only does the new model carry the company's new, abbreviated corporate identity, shorn of the word 'Audio', additionally, it leads off an all-new CX range of hi-fi and home cinema components...
Headphones Focal Spirit One S
The Spirit has been introduced by focal One S mobile headphone into an already busy marketplace, but priced in a low GBP149 they are possibly competitive. The Heart Ones are eyecatching. Finished with brushed aluminium side bits and hinges in anthracite gray, they can be a closed-back circumaural...
The Spirit has been introduced by focal One S mobile headphone into an already busy marketplace, but priced in a low GBP149 they are possibly competitive. The Heart Ones are eyecatching. Finished with brushed aluminium side bits and hinges in anthracite gray, they can be a closed-back circumaural...
Music server Aurender X100
I had been tremendously impressed by it and believed it was, at that point, among the most effective non-opticaI digital options that I'd hitherto seen. I used to be interested to find out the most recent offering from Aurender lately at the Whittlebury Show, astonishingly in the Audio Note room....
I had been tremendously impressed by it and believed it was, at that point, among the most effective non-opticaI digital options that I'd hitherto seen. I used to be interested to find out the most recent offering from Aurender lately at the Whittlebury Show, astonishingly in the Audio Note room....
Floor standing speakers Usher N-6361
The significant floorstanding Usher CP8871 II DMD using its diamond tweeter is becoming something of your own favourite. For the ones that do not have the financing or the room to hold the 8871, Usher has an option in the contour of the N-6361 floorstanders. Priced the N-6361s are a two way design...
The significant floorstanding Usher CP8871 II DMD using its diamond tweeter is becoming something of your own favourite. For the ones that do not have the financing or the room to hold the 8871, Usher has an option in the contour of the N-6361 floorstanders. Priced the N-6361s are a two way design...
Amplifier - DAC Pro-Ject MaiA
Pro-Ject could have made its name with great value turntables - but lately its Carton range of electronics has been garnering enthusiastic recommendations through the hifi community. Also it is easy to find out why. They eschew frippery, pack everything into a small form factor (thus saving price)...
Pro-Ject could have made its name with great value turntables - but lately its Carton range of electronics has been garnering enthusiastic recommendations through the hifi community. Also it is easy to find out why. They eschew frippery, pack everything into a small form factor (thus saving price)...
CD-player Cambridge Audio Topaz CD5
Considering they were, there must really be a fair few old Japanese stand systems out there. Although considerably-built and now quite awesome in a retro way, they were replaced with more modern hardware and consigned to shed a garage or loft. Could they be brought back into service, if only as 'second-room'...
Considering they were, there must really be a fair few old Japanese stand systems out there. Although considerably-built and now quite awesome in a retro way, they were replaced with more modern hardware and consigned to shed a garage or loft. Could they be brought back into service, if only as 'second-room'...
Floor standing speakers Quadral Vulkan VIII
Would it set our listening room alight I wondered? Hmmm... As a loudspeaker designer myself I understand the various approaches and their reasons and can feel what the designers of the Vulkan VIII had on their head with this particular towering monster, one that stands 1.27 metres high no less. Thread...
Would it set our listening room alight I wondered? Hmmm... As a loudspeaker designer myself I understand the various approaches and their reasons and can feel what the designers of the Vulkan VIII had on their head with this particular towering monster, one that stands 1.27 metres high no less. Thread...
DAC SOTM DX
The awkwardly named SOtM is from Korea. It really is an asynchronous convertor that adapts 44.1 and 48k sample rates and their multiples all the way up to 192kHz, with up to 24bit resolution, so this convertor ticks all the boxes. It comes with a USB driver disc for Windows (XP/SP3, Vista/SP2, 7), or...
The awkwardly named SOtM is from Korea. It really is an asynchronous convertor that adapts 44.1 and 48k sample rates and their multiples all the way up to 192kHz, with up to 24bit resolution, so this convertor ticks all the boxes. It comes with a USB driver disc for Windows (XP/SP3, Vista/SP2, 7), or...
Music system NAD Viso 1
I block out the cows truck that is filled by listening to music from my iDevice. Collapsing at home afterward, I plug it into my hi-fi - the NAD Viso 1 - to keep listening. I'm illustrating a point here: I don't actually do any of this! But I suspect that is the idiom into which the Viso 1 slots,...
I block out the cows truck that is filled by listening to music from my iDevice. Collapsing at home afterward, I plug it into my hi-fi - the NAD Viso 1 - to keep listening. I'm illustrating a point here: I don't actually do any of this! But I suspect that is the idiom into which the Viso 1 slots,...
DAC Musical Fidelity V-Link 192
It simply has electric output signals at the other, and a USB B plug input signal just like the others, at one end, in unbalanced form with a phono socket and balanced form via an XLR socket. There's no visual output signal with no power supply; it is USB powered. An array of indicators that are bright...
It simply has electric output signals at the other, and a USB B plug input signal just like the others, at one end, in unbalanced form with a phono socket and balanced form via an XLR socket. There's no visual output signal with no power supply; it is USB powered. An array of indicators that are bright...
Network player Pro-Ject Stream Box DS
As with so a lot of matters in the whole world these days, music is going virtual. Add to this the entire fiasco surrounding DAB digital radio as well as the fact this is an alternative reason why a digital streaming device of some kind makes perfect sense, and that it's just as easy to locate a better...
As with so a lot of matters in the whole world these days, music is going virtual. Add to this the entire fiasco surrounding DAB digital radio as well as the fact this is an alternative reason why a digital streaming device of some kind makes perfect sense, and that it's just as easy to locate a better...
CD-player Jolida JD100A
Based in the state of Maryland in the USA, Jolida was initially incorporated in 1983 as a manufacturer of valves as well as other electronic components (make really taking place in China). In 1995 their first amplifier was established at the CES in Las Vegas. Recently the business has expanded it's products...
Based in the state of Maryland in the USA, Jolida was initially incorporated in 1983 as a manufacturer of valves as well as other electronic components (make really taking place in China). In 1995 their first amplifier was established at the CES in Las Vegas. Recently the business has expanded it's products...
CD-player Cambridge Audio Azur 650C
Times are tough. There's less cash floating round the economy and folks are tightening their belts, debts are being paid off, holidays delayed or cancelled while the purchase of several luxury goods will be deferred or ignored entirely. Hi-fi is enduring too with many audiophiles deciding to stick with...
Times are tough. There's less cash floating round the economy and folks are tightening their belts, debts are being paid off, holidays delayed or cancelled while the purchase of several luxury goods will be deferred or ignored entirely. Hi-fi is enduring too with many audiophiles deciding to stick with...
Bookshelf speakers KEF Q300
This improves imaging, creating an even audio and more exact image free from stage anomalies, assisted with a unique 'tangerine' waveguide. The Q300's size is a reasonable 355mm high, 210mm wide and 302mm deep, weighing 7.7kg each bit. They are fitted with gold plated bi-wire terminals at the rear...
This improves imaging, creating an even audio and more exact image free from stage anomalies, assisted with a unique 'tangerine' waveguide. The Q300's size is a reasonable 355mm high, 210mm wide and 302mm deep, weighing 7.7kg each bit. They are fitted with gold plated bi-wire terminals at the rear...
Bookshelf speakers Monitor Audio Silver RX2
Monitor Audio's Silver RX2 is a two way loudspeaker fitted with attractive metal coned drive units. They have been designed with rear positioned HiVe II port technology that offers a better transient response, bass Monitor Audio that is tightening say. The Silver RX2's C-CAM 8in bass/mid driver cone...
Monitor Audio's Silver RX2 is a two way loudspeaker fitted with attractive metal coned drive units. They have been designed with rear positioned HiVe II port technology that offers a better transient response, bass Monitor Audio that is tightening say. The Silver RX2's C-CAM 8in bass/mid driver cone...
Bookshelf speakers Castle Knight 2
Castle assert they achieve superb high-frequency operation with all the Knight 2s due to a 25mm 'soft-dome' tweeter creating an exact and managed sound in comparison to the utilization of metal domes. The Knight 2s are fitted gold plated bi-wire terminals taking both 4mm plugs and bare cable. The...
Castle assert they achieve superb high-frequency operation with all the Knight 2s due to a 25mm 'soft-dome' tweeter creating an exact and managed sound in comparison to the utilization of metal domes. The Knight 2s are fitted gold plated bi-wire terminals taking both 4mm plugs and bare cable. The...
Bookshelf speakers Usher S520
Before metal cones arrived, polypropylene was popular as a nicely damped, low colouration cone material. The 'speakers weigh 6.8kg, 300mm high, 180mm wide, 265mm deep and are available in vibrant-finished colors including Ferrari Crimson, shine yellow, and Piano as good as conventional finishes. Fitting...
Before metal cones arrived, polypropylene was popular as a nicely damped, low colouration cone material. The 'speakers weigh 6.8kg, 300mm high, 180mm wide, 265mm deep and are available in vibrant-finished colors including Ferrari Crimson, shine yellow, and Piano as good as conventional finishes. Fitting...
Bookshelf speakers Elac BS 53.2
Measuring 285mm high, 170mm wide and 270mm deep the BS 53.2 is a streamlined standmounter finest positioned close to a rear wall, our measurements demonstrate. It may be put on a ledge, but its back port needs breathing room behind, requiring at minimal a deep 10in shelf - this isn't ideal. Weight is...
Measuring 285mm high, 170mm wide and 270mm deep the BS 53.2 is a streamlined standmounter finest positioned close to a rear wall, our measurements demonstrate. It may be put on a ledge, but its back port needs breathing room behind, requiring at minimal a deep 10in shelf - this isn't ideal. Weight is...
Bookshelf speakers Mordaunt-Short Aviano 1 XR
The Aviano 1 XR of Mordaunt Short is a two way loudspeaker that uses a reflex interface to load the woofer unit. Mordaunt Short say that the driver units rolls off faster, supplying less overlap between the midrange and tweeter, improving off-axis response. The Aviano's are in a position to restrict...
The Aviano 1 XR of Mordaunt Short is a two way loudspeaker that uses a reflex interface to load the woofer unit. Mordaunt Short say that the driver units rolls off faster, supplying less overlap between the midrange and tweeter, improving off-axis response. The Aviano's are in a position to restrict...
Amplifier Onkyo A-9010
As the nineties slowly morphs from contemporary to historic, let's reflect and pause on the hi fi of the decade. It was all the Pioneer A-400's fault as I remember, and this began a trend for Sonys, Kenwoods, Marantzs, etc. all fettled notably for us. Maybe it is more useful to discuss with regards...
As the nineties slowly morphs from contemporary to historic, let's reflect and pause on the hi fi of the decade. It was all the Pioneer A-400's fault as I remember, and this began a trend for Sonys, Kenwoods, Marantzs, etc. all fettled notably for us. Maybe it is more useful to discuss with regards...