Goldmund Announces Eidos SACD Player All Image Credit: Goldmund Luxury audio company Goldmund of Geneva, Switzerland continue to support the plastic SACD and CD formats with the release of their latest high-end and more “affordable” Eidos SACD CD player. Supporting a wide variety of available CD and DVD audio formats, […]

Goldmund Announces Eidos SACD Player

Onkyo, Pioneer Elite, & Integra AVRs Get Dirac Live Bass Control All Image Credit: DIRAC As promised by The Premium Audio Company, DIRAC, the Swedish company specializing in sound optimization, has just made available its Live Bass Control feature for license to four high-end AV receivers. These include the: 11.2-channel […]

Onkyo, Pioneer Elite, & Integra AVRs Get Dirac Live Bass Control

Chord BerTTi Compact Ultima Amp – Quick Look All Image Credit: Chord Electronics Announced at High End Munich 2023 the BerTTi is a table-top 75 watt stereo amplifier that uses many of the same components and techniques found the the Chord ULTIMA Class A/B amplifiers but now at a more […]

Chord BerTTi Compact Ultima Amp – Quick Look

Avid HiFi Accent Integrated Amplifier – Quick Look All Image Credit: Avid HiFi Avid HiFi of the UK have announced the latest addition to their Integrated Amplifier range, the ACCENT. This latest stereo design features; a remote, four line inputs, a Pellar phonostage and supports 70 watts into 8Ω. Appealing […]

Avid HiFi Accent Integrated Amplifier – Quick Look

Origin Live Adds Swift Mk5 Turntable – First Look All Image Credit: Origin Live On or about May 1st 2023, Origin Live of Southampton, UK, announced a new addition to their turntable range, the Swift Mk5. It includes several features from their flagship Voyager turntable and fills the price point […]

Origin Live Adds Swift Mk5 Turntable – First Look

Musical Fidelity A1 Integrated Amplifier Announced All Image Credit: Musical Fidelity *UPDATED 6/8/2023 with improvements, features and specifications* 1988 saw the introduction of the Musical Fidelity A1 Stereo Integrated Amplifier, which at that time was considered to be a budget model. A decade later the model was discontinued, being resurrected […]

Musical Fidelity A1 Integrated Amplifier Announced

Mobile Fidelity Announces MasterDeck & MasterPhono – First Look All Image Credit: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab With Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs continuing desire to bring the sound of the master tape into your home they have announced two new vinyl products; the MasterDeck turntable and the MasterPhono pre-amplifier. The turntable […]

Mobile Fidelity Announces MasterDeck & MasterPhono – First Look

Melco N5-H50 High End Music Library Launch All Image Credit: MELCO Drawing extensibly on the design of the recently released flagship N1-S38, MELCO have released a high end, lower cost digital music library, that primarily saves you money by replacing the flagship’s SSD in favor of HDD as well as […]

Melco N5-H50 High End Music Library Launch

Naim Classic Range – 300 Series – Quick Look All Image Credit: Naim British audiophile company Naim has recently announced its latest 300 series from its New Classic Range, the; NSS 333 streamer, NAC 332 pre-amplifier, NAP 350 monoblock power amplifier and NVC TT phono stage with a separate dedicated […]

Naim Classic Range – 300 Series – Quick Look

JBL Announces 2nd Edition L100 & L82 Classic Speakers All Image Credit JBL HARMAN Luxury Audio Group has announced the MkII Editions of its iconic and best selling speaker in JBL’s history, the L100 Classic and its iconic sibling the L82 Classic loudspeakers. These passive hi-fi loudspeakers have been enhanced […]

JBL Announces 2nd Edition L100 & L82 Classic Speakers

HiFi Rose Flagship RS130 Streamer – First Look All Image Credit: HiFi Rose HiFi Rose, the Korean digital audio specialists, unveiled at the Munich High End 2023 a new flagship network streaming transport designed to act as the ultimate digital audio source for any high-end audio system. It shares many […]

HiFi Rose Flagship RS130 Streamer – First Look

McIntosh Announces ML1 MKII Loudspeaker All Image Credit: McIntosh Continuing with the audio industries ongoing release of Vintage/Retro style and revamped products, McIntosh has announced the ML1 MKII speaker, an updated and re-imagined version of its first speaker made in 1970 but discontinued in 1977. The latest cabinet is built […]

McIntosh Announces ML1 MKII Loudspeaker

Spears & Munsil Releases Expanded 2023 Test Disc Set All Image Credit: BiasLighting/Scenic Labs (Spears & Munsil) Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, the creators of the Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark series have released their 2023 vastly enhanced version of their Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark. A three-disc […]

Spears & Munsil Releases Expanded 2023 Test Disc Set

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CyberPower CP1500PFCRM2U UPS Review All Image Credit: CyberPower For almost a decade my CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U has been in continual use 24/7 protecting first my BENQ W10000 projector and latterly my JVC RS640 projector. So I decided that as I was on my fourth battery replacement and that it seemed to […]

CyberPower CP1500PFCRM2U UPS Review

Cambridge Audio Announces EVO CD Transport All Image Credit: Cambridge Audio Despite the overall continued growth of vinyl and the drop in sales of plastic, many audiophile manufacturers continue to support the CD formats releasing new players and transports like this Cambridge Audio EVO CD. I just wonder if the […]

Cambridge Audio Announces EVO CD Transport