Cayin Announces All-Tube Soul 170C & 170P Amplifiers All Image Credit: Cayin Cayin of China have announced a new high-end tube pre/power amplifier combo as part of their Soul series, the 170C pre-amplifier and 170P power amplifier. These all-tube amplifiers come with  front panels are made of brushed matte black […]

Cayin Announces All-Tube Soul 170C & 170P Amplifiers

QUAD Announces The 3CDT Dedicated CD Transport All Image Credit: QUAD QUAD of the UK continues to support physical media with the launch of the 3CDT, a dedicated CD transport designed to complement the recently launched QUAD 3 integrated amplifier. The new tray-loading transport retains the 3 Series’ retro styling […]

QUAD Announces The 3CDT Dedicated CD Transport

Musical Fidelity Announces Nu-Vista Vinyl S Phono Stage All Image Credit: Musical Fidelity Musical Fidelity has announced the Nu-Vista Vinyl S phono stage, providing a flexible front end for vinyl systems and designed to complement the Nu-Vista 600.2 and 800.2 integrated amplifiers. It is now available in both black and […]

Musical Fidelity Announces Nu-Vista Vinyl S Phono Stage

Aavik Launches R-X88 Series Phonostages All Image Credit: Aavik Audio Group Denmark has launched the new Aavik R-X88 series of phonostages, comprised of three models; the Aavik R-188, Aavik R-288, and Aavik R-588. This new range of phono amplifiers are designed for only Moving Coil and DS Audio optical cartridges. […]

Aavik Launches R-X88 Series Phonostages

Rega Adds New Reference-Level ND9 Cartridge All Image Credit: Rega Rega has announced the Nd9, their new reference-level moving magnet cartridge that tops out the Nd series. This hand-built cartridge uses an advanced “fine line” nude diamond profile, bonded to a Boron rod cantilever, similar to their Aphelion 2 moving-coil […]

Rega Adds New Reference-Level Nd9 Cartridge

Volumio Primo Plus Streaming DAC – Quick Look All Image Credit: Volumino Italian Hi-Fi brand Volumio has announced the launch of the Volumio Primo Plus, a newly developed Streaming DAC designed to deliver high-quality digital playback. This latest model builds upon the earlier Primo but is a complete redesign and […]

Volumio Primo Plus Streaming DAC – Quick Look

FiiO Releases R2R Tube DAC – First Look All Image Credit: FiiO FiiO is shortly to release the R2R Tube DAC. This latest minimalist design will please many audiophiles as it uses an R2R decoder driving a tube-buffered output stage and comes with backlit mechanical VU meters. The whole design […]

FiiO Releases R2R Tube DAC – First Look

Rega Launches Mercury Pre-Amplifier and Solis Power Amplifier All Image Credit: Rega Rega has announced two reference grade amplifiers, the Mercury pre-amplifier and the Solis power amplifier. Mercury Pre-Amplifier The Mercury employs fully discrete symmetrical circuitry throughout its signal path with each stage employing complementary Class A output stage amplifiers. […]

Rega Launches Mercury Pre-Amplifier and Solis Power Amplifier

Lumin Debuts X2 Flagship Streaming DAC All Image Credit: Lumin LUMIN, who hails from Hong Kong, has just announced the launch of the X2, a flagship streaming DAC that uses their discrete DAC implementation rather than of-the-shelf DAC chips. The X2’s DAC its at the heart of the fully balanced […]

Lumin Debuts X2 Flagship Streaming DAC

Shanling Launches New SCD3.3 Flagship SACD Player All Image Credit: Shanling Physical media just won’t die, thank goodness, and Shanling shows its endearing support with their upcoming release of the flagship SCD3.3 SACD player. This latest flagship design comes with a discrete R2R DAC, 12AT7 tube output stages and Bluetooth […]

Shanling Launches New SCD3.3 Flagship SACD Player

Topping D900 1-Bit DAC – First Look All Image Credit: Topping Topping, a Chinese Hi-Fi manufacturer, has released its new flagship D900 DAC that is designed around a proprietary discrete 1-bit conversion technology rather than employing conventional, and readily available digital-to-analogue converters. Topping calls this 1-bit approach a Precision Stream […]

Topping D900 1-Bit DAC – First Look

Technics Announces The SL-1200GME Turntable All Image Credit: Technics Technics has announced the end of the production of the existing and iconic SL-1200/1210G turntable models by the end of this year due to the discontinuation of some externally sourced components. However, they will be commemorating the models with the release […]

Technics Announces The SL-1200GME Turntable

Clearaudio Mini Toolkit – Quick Look All Image Credit: Clearaudio German analog audio specialists and HiFi brand Clearaudio has introduced the Clearaudio Mini Toolkit, a compact and comprehensive set of instruments designed for the setup, calibration, and care of audiophile turntables. This new kit comes in a sturdy, metal case, […]

Clearaudio Mini Toolkit – Quick Look

Audio-Technica New AT33x Cartridge Range All Image Credit: Audio-Technica Audio-Technica have just released the ATX33x series of moving coil phono cartridges, their first since 2014. It features five new models, the; AT33xEN, AT33xMLD, AT33xMLB stereo cartridges, and the AT33xMONO/I and AT33xMONO/II monaural cartridges. The new cartridge bodies combine three materials: […]

Audio-Technica New AT33x Cartridge Range

TEAC Announces NT-507T Network Transport – Quick Look All Image Credit: TEAC Japanese HiFi brand TEAC has announced the NT-507T, a dedicated network streaming transport, no DAC, that expands its Reference 500 Series. The NT-507T has been designed as a digital-only companion to the TEAC UD-507 DAC/preamp, supporting network playback […]

TEAC Announces NT-507T Network Transport – Quick Look