Audiophile all-in-one systems are popular at the moment. It all started with the Linn Klassik, but really took off with the Arcam Solo (see review), which I reviewed some time ago and found to be ...

The NN Z Speaker Filter connects across speaker terminals. It filters out high frequency interference that is picked up via the speaker cable and internal speaker wiring, and is created by speaker ...

I auditioned a number of CD-Players, before buying my CD-67 SE. I felt that of all the CD-Players in question (which shall remain unnamed) it offered the most music for the money. Having lived with ...

I bought one of Scott Nixon's DacKit kits way back in 2003 and have been using it on a regular basis since. With a decent power supply, and Black Gate NXQ output caps, it made a really nice sound. I ...

A while ago I was in need of a new Phono Pickup Cartridge. Having stayed for a long time with such budget favorites as the Cambridge C-77 and a nice NAD 9100, I was not going to shell out for a Koetsu ...

The Aliante Spazio is a small freestanding loudspeaker with the bass-reflex port on the baffle. They are quite small (35H x 20L x 25P in cm.), and pretty, with a nice real walnut finish (see picture ...

It seems only the other day that class-D amplifiers were like a mysterious new technology with prices to keep them mysterious to most of us on a modest budget. But as with most technology, the price ...

Certainly, Linn needs no introduction. Besides the world renowned LP12, a top of the line turntable for more than a decade, its product range is significantly extended towards all other fields in High ...

In the first installment of this series we had a look at the noise generated at the output of a number of easy to build and cheap voltage regulators: single-chip series and shunt regs (LM317/337 and ...

When I received a sample of the Trends Audio UD-10 USB DAC nearly six years ago I little realised that my review would be the start of me auditioning a whole system from that supplier. But recently I ...

Another review of an item coming all the way from the Far East; Hong Kong in this instance. So it's good to report that the kit arrived very well packed and in good condition. I know many of you ...

Abacus is a German hifi brand and quite unknown outside of their own country, even if they seem to have a bit of a reputation there. The website and manuals are all in German, with no translation ...