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Rega closes out 2025 with the Nd9, a £695 moving-magnet cartridge featuring a Boron cantilever, fine line diamond stylus, and N55 Neodymium magnet, set...
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Musical Fidelity’s Nu-Vista Vinyl S brings flagship tech to a smaller chassis with extensive MM/MC flexibility, but its $5,500-$6,500 price enters fierce high-end competition.
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Rega’s new Mercury and Solis flagship amps showcase peak engineering, but with a $50K full-system buy-in and no network amplifier in sight, the strategy...
CD Players
Shanling’s SCD3.3 treats SACD like it never died—true DSD output, a 212-resistor R2R DAC, tube stage, and enough engineering muscle to shame most “modern”...
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2025 Black Friday tech deals you won't want to miss on premium hi-fi, headphones, and home theater gear this Holiday Season.
Headphone Amps
The Saros Audio Systems Europa is a fully differential, hand-built tube headphone amplifier and preamp debuting at CAF 2025 for $8,495—precision without compromise.
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Get out your vacuum cleaner and clean the vents of your AV receiver or amplifier. Dust inhibits air circulation and proper cooling of any...
Music Streamers
Wadax of Spain announced the Hermes ClearStream digital music streaming solution for audiophiles. It adds plug n’ play streaming playback to the Wadax PRE1...
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The IsoTek EVO3 Polaris mains conditioning block is designed to enhance the performance of a complete audio or AV system. A painstakingly designed delta filter...
New Products
IsoTek introduced a mains filtration device, with class-leading spike and surge protection, optimized for use with TVs and projectors. The EVO3 Mini Mira takes...
Music Streamers
The Reference DAC Digital Media Bridge connects nearly all forms of digital media to a centralized unit with exceptional digital-to-analog processing, the same vacuum...
Integrated Amps & Stereo Receivers
Balanced Music Concept (B.M.C.) Audio introduced the high-end AMP CS2 integrated stereo amplifier with a built-in power amp upgrade option. The AMP CS2 can...
Music Streamers
T+A introduced the all-in-one high-end DAC, preamp, amplifier, CD player and networked music streamer with its new E-Series Music Receiver. It combines classic analogue...
Music Streamers
Olive Media today introduced the Olive ONE, an all-in-one high definition (HD) music player that helps people better store, organize, access and enjoy their...
Music Streamers
Chord Electronics expanded its top-of-the-range Reference line with the addition of an advanced, fully featured network music player. The new DSX1000 is a high-performance...
Articles
Excerpt from Audioholics.com article We gathered up 5 of our audio buddies. We took my “old” Martin Logan SL-3 (not a bad speaker for...
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As the days in the Northeast, Northwest and Midwest get chillier and darker with fewer daylight hours, we tend to move indoors and spend...
Amplifiers
As Axiom’s chief R&D engineer Tom Cumberland describes it, a digital amplifier is a “power DAC”, and of course a DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) is...
Amplifiers
One of the most difficult-to-understand terms for newcomers (and even experienced enthusiasts) in audio and sound reproduction is the decibel, partly because it’s a...
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Many of the best video cables on the market today were designed primarily for use in the digital domain; but can a digital cable...
Amplifiers
MBL introduced the 500-watt (4-ohm) C15 Mono Power Amplifier to their Corona Line of high-end audio components. MBL has implemented their LASA-technology (Linear Analog...
Amplifiers
NuForce introduced Dia, a 24bit/192kHz D/A converter (DAC) and 24-watt stereo amplifier for home audio/visual and streaming devices. The NuForce Dia is an all-in-one...
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