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Integrated Amplifier Test
Lyngdorf TDAI-1120 Review
Small Amp for Big Tasks – The TDAI-1120 is Lyngdorf‘s smallest integrated amplifier with room correction and streaming. Did they save money at the…
Headphone Amp Test
Mal Valve Headamp 3 MK IV Review
Peak Performance – five and a half years after we crowned the Mal Valve Head Amp 3 our reference headphone amp, it dethrones itself with the MK IV…
Preamplifier Test
Accustic Arts Preamp III Review
Higher Goals … but how to hit them? With the new Preamp III, Accustic Arts wants to surpass their previous top model. STEREO tested whether they were…
Floorstanding Speaker Test
Canton Reference 3K Review
Float like a Butterfly – that is the first part of a famous quote by Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay. The quite voluminous Canton…
Phono Cartridge Test
Nagaoka JT-80LB / JT-80BK Review
New Sounds – Nagaoka is one of the traditional analog brands. Now the Japanese have a special surprise for us with the first two pickups from their…
Wireless Active Speaker Test
Q Acoustics Q Active 200 Review
Particularly Smart – Not too long ago, Q Acoustics introduced the new compact active system Q Active 200. With an unusual design, innovative…
Phono-Preamp Test
Hegel V10 Review
Plain and Simple – A high-quality reproduction of music is appreciated throughout Scandinavia. Although the Norwegian manufacturer Hegel has been on…
Integrated Amplifier Test
Arcam SA 30 Review
He's Got It All! – You don't win an EISA award "just like that". You indeed have to offer much more than the competition does – as is the case with…
Service
Everything You Need to Know About Bi-Amping
To Bi Or Not To Bi – Bi-amping is considered one of the "ultimate aspects" of sophisticated high fidelity. In this essay, you'll read what it is…
Integrated Amplifier Test
Rotel Michi X3 Review
Behold the Power – Rotel's new integrated amplifier "X3" is the entry into their high-end "Michi" series. Does it have the perks of the even bigger…
Active Standmount Speaker Test
KEF LS 50 Wireless II Review
An Active Point – KEF's LS 50 was a big hit in the charts of High Fidelity. Now, the Wireless II is simply the best possible way to realize the…
Turntable Test
Linn Majik LP12 Review
The Gateway Drug – The risk of developing an audiophile addiction to Linn's LP12 was always rather considerable. Just now, the recipe of the variant…
Integrated Amp & CD Player Test
Cyrus i9-XR and Cyrus CDi-XR Review
Xtreme Resolution – The British manufacturer Cyrus has a legendary status when it comes to incredible musicality, joy of playing and coherence coming…
Integrated (Streaming-)Amp Test
Cambridge Evo 150 Review
Road To Perfection – Cambridge Audio recently dropped quite a bombshell. Not in the literal sense, of course, but the newly presented Evo 150 simply…
Standmount Speaker Test
JBL L82 Classic Review
The American Fighter — JBL already displayed convincing qualities with the L100 Classic. Now, they send out the smaller sibling L82 to try and…
Streamer & D/A-Converter Test
Waversa WDAC 3C Review
The Perfect Wave? — Various products from the Korean manufacturer Waversa – which translates to "The Wave" – have been available in Germany for about…
All-In-One System Test
Technics Ottava SC-C70 MK2 Review
Ready for Everything and Looking Fancy – In the digital part of our hi-fi world, three years are quite a long time. No manufacturer can afford to take…
Floorstanding Speaker Test
Piega MLS 3 Review
Swiss Delight – The Piega MasterLineSource 3 is the newest addition to the reference class of the Swiss loudspeaker specialist, which was started in…
Phono-Preamp Test
AVM Ovation PH 8.3 Review
You can always get what you want – With the brand new Ovation PH 8.3, AVM launches a phono preamplifier of the highest class, which can also be…
Power Amplifier Test
NAD C 298 Review
Sleeping Beauty has Awakened – For a few years, it seemed as if NAD had lost some of its momentum. Behind the scenes, however, the company evidently…
Floorstanding Speaker Test
DALI Rubicon 6 Black Edition Review
Small Changes make for Big Improvements – Updating both the visuals and the technology of a tried and tested model is not a completely new strategy.…
Tonearm Test
Transrotor TRA 9/2.1 Review
Eagerly Awaited – Transrotor has been building turntables for around 45 years. Now, the analog specialist presented its first tonearm. It was a long…
Integrated Amplifier Test
Accuphase E-800 Review
The Über-Amp – Accuphase crowns its line of integrated amplifiers with a super-sized amp. The E-800 shines with Class A operation and technical…
Floorstanding Speaker Test
Gauder Berlina RC 7 MK II Black Edition Review
Correct Calculations – Speaker by speaker, Gauder Akustik from Renningen, Southern Germany, is in the process of conquering the known world elite of…
Headphone Test
Sennheiser HD 560S Review
Small but Ambitious – Sennheiser, specialist for studio, stage and conference technology, audiology, microphones and headphones, recently celebrated…
Phono-Preamp Test
Vertere Phono-1 MK II Review
Magic Box – A device that comes at a reasonable price and yet is not ordinary, but different from others? Touraj Moghaddam, owner of Vertere Audio,…
Floorstanding Speaker Test
Wilson Audio SabrinaX Review
A New X Factor – Wilson Audio now manufactures its smallest floorstanding speaker entirely from the superior "X-Material". Does the SabrinaX deliver…
Integrated Amplifier Test
Audionet Humboldt Review
The Giant from Berlin – Around a quarter of a century has passed since Audionet came onto the market with the Amp1 power amplifier, which convinced…
Floorstanding Speaker Test
Avantgarde Acoustic Duo XD Review
Blow Up! – With the Duo XD, Avantgarde Acoustic shows what horn technology and a perfectly matched active woofer are able to do to the sound. Fasten…
Integrated Amplifier Test
Marantz Model 30 Review
Marantz DNA – "Luxury You Can Afford" is what Joe Cocker called one of his albums. One might think that this legend of music from Sheffield, England,…