Audiovalve Baldur 70 Amplifier Reviewed

Wherever and however the 'radar' is focussed, too many worthy brands suffer in near-anonymity below its sweep. Some deserve to, some don't. Germany's AudioValve is one of the latter. Aside from questionable aesthetics, their products are hard to fault for......Read More

Ayre AX-7 Power Amp Reviewed

Magazines - let alone journalists - are accused with much regularity of concentrating on a handful of brands while ignoring others. The reasons are manifold, not least being space limitations: if magazines gave coverage according to proportional representation, Hi-Fi News......Read More

EAT Valves Reviewed

Having been well and truly educated by manufacturers such as Croft and AudioValve, I am loath to enter the 'premium valve' fray. Both have shown that intelligent design can more than compensate for tube variation and quality; AudioValve's circuitry is......Read More

Musical Fidelity X-Pre Preamp Reviewed

So aggravatingly prolific is Musical Fidelity that it's hard to know what has and hasn't been reviewed. The excuse for such a flood of products? Anthony Michaelson argues that it's the only way to keep everyone watching his brand, to......Read More

Sonus faber Gravis Subwoofer reviewed

Despite the audiophilic loathing of multi-channel and home cinema, the proliferation of small speakers in two-channel use indicates that subwoofers are godsends for those who cannot afford or house big speaker systems. Ironically, given that the Gravis B1 is Sonus......Read More

WAVAC Amp Reviewed

Technoids: skip this page immediately. Wavac is firmly, resolutely of the flakey, specs-are-bollocks school of amplifier design. And besides, you won't miss two page in this issue because you really do hate those little 15-watters using rare, probably forgotten, often......Read More

Adcom GFP 555 II Preamp and GFA 545 II Power Amp Reviewed

Marvelling at the lack of speed which afflicts this industry, I'm pleased to note that -- at last -- Adcom has made it to the UK. No, I'm not wearing my Stars'n'Stripes necktie, but I do admit to above-average curiosity.......Read More

Air Tight ATC-1 Preamp and ATM-1 Power Amp Reviewed

Never, if you value your sanity, thumb through a Japanese hi-fi magazine. If you're an inveterate hi-fi casualty, the pictures you'll see will haunt you the way a girlie mag tortures Adrian Mole. I never take my own advice, so......Read More

AMC CVT 3030 Integrated Amp Reviewed

Name the best-selling 'audiophile' budget integrated amplifier of all time. The NAD 3020, right? Even if it isn't -- I wouldn't be surprised if it was outsold by some piece of junk from one of the Japanese majors, but I......Read More

AMC CVT 3030 Tube Integrated Amp

Name the best-selling 'audiophile' budget integrated amplifier of all time. The NAD 3020, right? Even if it isn't -- I wouldn't be surprised if it was outsold by some piece of junk from one of the Japanese majors, but I......Read More

Arion Nemisis Power Amp Reviewed

In a remarkably short time, the world of single-ended triode amplification has created its own set of niches. Calling it a 'hierarchy' would suggest some sort of pecking order - and I'd rather not be so egotistical as to assume......Read More

Armonia Integrated Amp reviewed

Back in March '98, I reviewed an Italian integrated valve amp I'd been lusting for at many a hi-fi show. My lust was, of course, driven by my Italophilia, but that was only a small part of it: the amplifier......Read More

Audio Analogue Maestro Settana Amp and CD Player Reviewed

How time flies. It seems like only yesterday that the Italian audio industry consisted of two 'genres': gorgeous speakers and outré tube amps. But now you have companies like Opera, Pathos, Sonus Faber, Unison Research and others with state-of-the-art, bespoke......Read More

Audio Note Conquest Amp Reviewed

Heh, heh...I can picture at least half of you going, "Oh, no - here come more toys with prices courtesy of L. Frank Baum." Close, but no (Monte Cristo) cigar: there are ranges in the Audio Note catalogue, the models......Read More

Audio Note Gaku-On Monoblock Power Amplifiers Reviewed

Think about a nice little cottage, straight out of Lovejoy. Maybe a shiny Ferrari. School fees for you child's entire pre-university education. Any of the above is available to you if you have a spare £128,000. Or you could buy......Read More

Audio Research CA-50 Integrated Amp Reviewed

Believing your own predictions is dangerous. So all this flapping on about The New Integrated Amplifier that I've engaged in for the past year or so has been undertaken with some restraint. But, hey, the Bow ZZ-One and the Krell......Read More

Audio Research Reference 600 Power Amps Reviewed

Don't kid yourself: reviewers get nervous, too. At least this one does whenever he has to review a product which has the potential to rewrite the rules. Hell, the latest from Bill Johnson doesn't just rewrite 'em: he's thrown......Read More

Audio Research VS55 Power Amp Reviewed

An amplifier has to be something truly magical to follow, let alone partner the Audio Research SP16 pre-amp. When I reviewed it for the May issue, that delicious control unit, 'affordable' by ARC standards, reminded me of why I fell......Read More

Audio Research VSi55 Integrated Amplifier Reviewed

Whatever possessed the guys at Audio Research to dump the look of the CA50 integrated amplifier when they came up with its replacement, I'll never know. That now-departed product screamed 'Audio Research!' from 30 paces, endowed as it was with......Read More

Beam Echo Tube Amp Reviewed

Elder tubies delighted with the news that the name 'Beam-Echo' has been revived need wait no longer for proof. The reincarnated constructor has re-issued the Avantic DL7-35 monoblock power amp as its debut product, marking the amplifier's 40th anniversary,......Read More

Beard Audio BB100 Tube Power Amp

You can't criticize manufacturers for responding to a change intastes. CD has forever changed the face of hi-fi, so all you're doing when you mourn the passage of the phono stage is increase the value of shares in sackcloth and......Read More

Cadence PRE2 Preamp and MA2 Power Amp Reviewed

Budding young (and not so young) valve amp manufacturers turn to me on a regular basis because I was stupid enough to swearallegiance to tubes in these very pages. The assumption was/isthat KK loves anything which glows in the dark......Read More

Carver Silver Seven Mono Vacuum Tube Power Amplifier Reviewed

History lessons may bore most of you, but some background is needed to understand the brain-rattling Silver Seven. A lesson in psychology wouldn't hurt either, because what we're looking at here is a response to hurt pride, or ego, or......Read More

Cello Audio Palette, Performance II Amps, Cello Stradivari Grandmaster Speakers Reviewed

Name a pursuit or hobby. Better still, think of your own prime passion. Think of the ultimate fantasy which relates to it. Cars? You probably fantasise about owning a Diablo and a place to drive it. Boating? You want a......Read More

Classe DR-5 Preamp and DR-5 Power Amp Reviewed

Networking is all that keeps a journalist well-informed, and my network never fails. A couple of American manufacturers have, time and again, alerted me to new brands or models worth investigating, and it is to one of them that I......Read More

Classe Thirty Preamp and the Seventy Power Amp Reviewed

Minimalism, audiophile credibility, low prices -- these I understand. But remote control? What is going on in the high end? As recently as seven or eight years ago, the mere mention of remote control would have had the Flat Earthers......Read More

Conuterpoint SA-1000 Preamp and SA-100 Amp Reviewed

Bargain-hunting and high-end performance may seem mutually exclusive terms, but certain brands have always placed realistic pricing high on the agenda. Most amusing is that the more cost-conscious of all are the valve amp producers, who continue to create some......Read More

Copland CSA 29 Integrated Amp Reviewed

Amidst the myriad brands that fill the pages of hi-fi magazines are countless that have (seemingly) dropped below the radar. You just don't hear about them as much as you do, say, Linn or Krell. The reality, though, is that......Read More

Copland CSA14 integrated amplifier Reviewed

Since the Austerity has ensured that the High End must be regarded as 'politically incorrect', is it any surprise that there's a fresh flood of mid-level products? Heretofore best thought of as the audio graveyard -- neither cheap enough to......Read More

Copland CTA 401 Integrated Amplifier Reviewed

Prejudices have conspired to force upon this review a 'foregone conclusion'. My valve lust is well-known. My admiration for the look of Cello products is no secret. I've got a fetish about all things Scandinavian. And the girl who haunted......Read More

Counterpoint SA-12 Power Amp Reviewed

Junk mail rarely serves a purpose, but I'm pleased that I opened one of those 'You Can Win #100,000!!' envelopes from a famous producer of junk mail. In it, the company showed a breakdown of what you could do with......Read More

Croft Series 3 Power Amplifier Reviewed

Write down these numbers and put the paper in a safe place: (0902) 865326 and (0902) 331324. Those are the numbers I have for Eminent Audio, Croft's distributors, and they're the most important numbers associated with Croft ownership. Thinking back......Read More

Croft Series V Power Amplifier Reviewed

Like eczema and Bob Monkhouse, Croft simply refuses to go away. And, boy, am I glad. Y'see, there's this element in the audio community that feels no company with a turnover of less than, say, £5,000,000 deserves to have its......Read More

Croft Series V-C Amp reviewed

As expected, the taste by-pass continues unabated at Croft. The Series Vc power amplifier and the Vitale SC pre-amp arrived in the new finish called "Antique Gold" - beyond question the most hideous colour scheme I've EVER seen applied to......Read More

Dynaco Stereo 70 Tube Amp Reviewed

Retro -- makes me glad to be alive. While I wasn't surprised to find Rollei and Contax exploiting nostalgia for camera collectors, or Fortis and Jaeger-LeCoultre playing to the horologists, I continue to register surprise whenever a piece of aged......Read More

EAR Paravicini M100A/312 Tube Amp Reviewed

Statement amps are nothing new to Tim de Paravicini, his original EAR 509s and 549s hardly being minor projects. Neither were the first amps to bear the Yoshino names, a pair of designs showing that single-ended topology could be......Read More

EAR V-20 Amp Reviewed

Leave it to Tim de Paravicini to come up with something so deliciously twisted that no tube crazy can resist it. The new E.A.R. V20 integrated amplifier, despite costing a not-unreasonable-by-today's-standards £2495, looks like nothing else and sports a quantity......Read More

Einstein Power Amp Review

Call it 'chutzpah', that Yiddish form of cheek which has no equal. Naming your product 'Einstein' -- as with the naming of Southall's superb Indian dinery, Mahur's Brilliant Restaurant -- is a show of supreme confidence. The name, after all,......Read More

Esoteric Audio Research (E.A.R.) 859 Enhanced Triode Mode SE Integrated Amplifier Reviewed

Common to all hobbies is the threat of repetition, of the samey-ness which can kill progress -- and interest -- stone-dead. So hi-fi enthusiasts, retailers, manufacturers and journalists end up pursuing novelty not just for the sake of it but......Read More

Fase Nimis Integrated Amp Reviewed

iMac, take a bow. However absurd I find the whole Apple Mac thing, I've gotta admit that Apple's no-brainer computer has influenced all manner of consumer electronics, and not just those which are computer-related. First, the blueberry version (which I......Read More

GRAAF GM20 Power Amp Reviewed

What a month! Having just finished with the wild and wonderful E.A.R. V20 integrated, here I am savouring an equally radical new power amplifier from an Italian designer as revolutionary and iconoclastic as E.A.R.'s Tim de Paravicini. After all, GRAAF's......Read More

Graff GM 200 Amplifier Reviewed

Given that few people will defend tube/transistor hybrids, how do you go about satisfying the valve-oriented consumer who wants his or her amp to have everything under one cage? And without simply adding to the buttonry? One of the last......Read More

Graff GM50B Integrated Amp Reviewed

We all have favourites, even those of us who are supposed to be utterly impartial. Being only human (or so I'm told), I'm not going to hide my affection for GRAAF, a brand yet to disappoint and one of the......Read More

Gryphon Callisto 2200 Integrated Amp Reviewed

Spoiled by choice as we are, it's easy to forget low-profile brands. Gryphon suffers from this syndrome simply because there are far too many companies producing high-end amplifiers, and a mere handful probably accounts for 90 percent of the market.......Read More

Gryphon Callisto 2200 Integrated Amp Reviewed

Spoiled by choice as we are, it's easy to forget low-profile brands. Gryphon suffers from this syndrome simply because there are far too many companies producing high-end amplifiers, and a mere handful probably accounts for 90 percent of the market.......Read More

Gryphon DM100 Dual Mono Amplifier Reviewed

Ever fall in love at first sight? With a human being, a car, an article of clothing? Doesn't happen often (thank goodness), but when it does -- whoa. Hi-fi, too, has its share of drop-dead gorgeous, I-just-gotta-have-it hardware, and you're......Read More

Halcro dm58 Monoblock Amp Reviewed

There are two piles of magazines, some 57in tall, sitting in my lounge. They consist mainly of hi-fi magazines I can't read until they're 'out of date'. Why? Because I don't want to be influenced by the reviews, and I......Read More

Jadis JPS8 Preamp and JA50 Power Amp Reviewed

Here beginneth a lesson in prejudice. No, not just about my utter, abject, all-consuming, obsessive and nearly psychotic hatred of the French, but about audio prejudices - mine yours. Jadis has created a truly 'high end' pre/power combination of so......Read More

Krell KAV-250a and KAV-250p Reviewed

What signals are you receiving from Krell? What do you make of the turnaround that has produced so much prime entry-level gear? Let's not be too glib about this, for even the Krell components we're about to explore sell for......Read More

Krell KAV-300i Integrated Amp reviewed

Classroom doodling, playing the Lottery - whatever forms of dreaming take your fancy, there are some fantasies you're too realistic to entertain. And not just because Ferrari has already signed this year's drivers. I mean: who'd've thought that Dan D'Agostino......Read More

Krell MD-20 CD Transport, Krell Studio DAC and KRC Preamp Reviewed

Remember what it was like the first time you rode a bike without the training wheels? Passed your driving test? Lost your virginity? No kidding: the first time you switch on an all-Krell system in your own listening room, no......Read More

Lecson Quattra Integrated Amp Reviewed

Laughter. That's the sound most associated with the Lecson badge. I mean...of all the off-the-shelf names a fledgling manufacturer can resuscitate, why Lecson? Sure, it once meant 'stylish' and 'innovative', but the name is also associated with unreliability, eccentricity and......Read More

Linn Classik Movie System with DVD-Video Reviewed

Think of the various 'schools' which rule our choices: ballpoint vs fountain pen, automatic transmission vs. manual, electric shaver vs. blade. You're of one school or the other, and you just know which you prefer without being told. So what......Read More

LOTH-X JI-300 Amp Reviewed

From one extreme to the other: after letting me loose on their cheapest speaker, the £400 per pair Ion, Loth-X has sent over a £10,000 single-ended triode integrated amplifier. Talk about covering all price points. I'm told this isn't even......Read More

Marantz Model 7 Reviewed

Twist my arm. Go on. me to review a couple of products I've been dreaming about owning for years. What's that? If I've actually been waiting for 'years', did I suddenly find some mint originals? Not quite: Marantz took it......Read More

Marantz PM54 SE Integrated Amplifier

Power plays in the budget sector continue to revolve around 'killer' integrated amplifiers. The lower reaches of the catalogue can make or break a brand, especially one of the quasi-mass market variety and particularly if it's british or Asian. It's......Read More

Marantz SC-7S1 Preamp and MA-9S1 Amp Reviewed

How important is Marantz's latest foray into the true high-end arena? Let's put it this way: they sent Ken Ishiwata along to check the installation. It gets no scarier than that, for K.I. is The Man, and I wouldn't have......Read More

McIntosh MA6900 Integrated Amp Reviewed

Never let it be said that variety is in short supply amongst hi-fi designers. In direct contrast to nearly every other integrated amplifier in this series, the McIntosh MA6900 stands out like an off-roader amongst grocery carts. Indeed, two specifications......Read More

McIntosh MC 275 Power Amp Reviewed

Reissue, replica, reincarnation -- call it what you will. Just thank the audio gods that somebody at McIntosh has a sense of history. Unlike other makers who have squandered their heritage or merely milked it as it suited them, McIntosh......Read More

McIntosh MC2000 Power Amp Reviewed

Giovanni Faccendini is the kind of guy who, if he hadn't chosen to sell high-end audio equipment, could have walked into Francis Ford Coppola's office and a role in . Instead, he's one of Italy's heaviest honchos, for some time......Read More

Metaxas Opulence Preamp and Soliloquy Power Amps Reviewed

What's the biggest challenge facing today's hi-fi manufacturers? I'd say, 'Fighting boredom.' I popped into my local hi-fi emporium on Saturday and left underwhelmed by the much-of-a-muchness of over 200 components, all 430mm and black and, well, boring. It positively......Read More

Metaxas Solitaire Power Amp and Marquise Preamp Reviewed

Knowing that Kostas Metaxas is related to the boozemakers of the same name has little relevance to his hi-fi products other than for realizing that both are upmarket offerings. Will the hardware intoxicate as easily as the liquidware? Perhaps. But......Read More

Musical Fidelity F-Series Power Amps Reviewed

First timepieces, now military aircraft. There's no telling what Antony Michaelson will use as the source of model names for a new series of Musical Fidelity amplifiers. But fighter plane nomenclature is somehow appropriate for the F Series, because Michaelson......Read More

Musical Fidelity kW750 Preamp Reviewed

After borrowing Musical Fidelity's humungous kilowatt kW amplifier to see how Apogee's Scintillas would fare with a modern powerhouse, I thought no more of it once it was returned. Astounding amp, sobering price, obscene use of floor real estate: it......Read More

Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista M3 Integrated Amp Reviewed

Named after a motorway, or more likely, a rather hot-rodded BMW, the "Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista M3 super integrated amplifier" according to Antony Michaelson "is the last amplifier ever in the Nu-Vista series." This in itself is cause for both rejoicing......Read More

Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 300 Integrated Amp

Trying to stop Musical Fidelity's Antony Michaelson from pumping out new models is like trying to get the Labour Party to stop spinning. At least this time, there's an irresistible hook: 2002 is the company's 20th Anniversary, and Michaelson wanted......Read More

Musical Fidelity X-Ray Integrated Amp Reviewed

For me to suggest that 'we saved the best for last' in our triumvirate of Musical Fidelity reviews would be to diminish the brilliance of the first two. Both the X-A1 integrated amplifier and the now sold-out Nu-Vista preamplifier were......Read More

Nagra VPA Amplifier Reviewed

By now - 15 years before the mast(head) - most regular readers know what pushes my buttons. So is it any wonder that reviewing the Nagra VPA all-tube power amplifier is one project for which I was prepared to fight?......Read More

Niro (Nakamichi) 1000 Integrated Amp Reviewed

One glance at Niro Nakamichi's NIRO range, and you know you are in the presence of something special. One glimpse, and I just couldn't wait to try out one of these over-engineered oddballs. I mean, the first analogy to pop......Read More

NVA AP10 Integrated Amp Review

It was never Richard Dunn's intention to set me on a chase to find the cheapest tolerable mock-audiophile system one could muster. But he did submit for review the NVA AP10 single-input amplifier selling for a paltry £160 and decided......Read More

NVA AP50 Amp Reviewed

How refreshing it is to see, amidst a plethora of amps so cluttered as to be rococo, a return to good old-fashioned British minimalism. Not that NVA is completely innocent of the charge of producing what in the world of......Read More

Pathos Twin Tower Amps Reviewed

During the worst - no, make that 'during the most obsessive' period of my love affair with Italy*, a pompous British wag railed at me that its entire industry suffered from a lack of imagination and a fetish for retro.......Read More

Pink Triangle Inergral Integrated Amp Reviewed

True story: A VERY knowledgeable audiophile arrives at my listening room, on 18 November. Pink Triangle's Integral integrated amplifier is driving the Wharfedale Diamond 8.1s, its badge covered with tape. I state to this collector of some repute with a......Read More

Primaluna Prologue One Integrated Amp Reviewed

Although there is no detailed research to back up my guesstimate, I'd hazard that, based on my limited attendance at hi-fi shows, at least 50 new audio brands appear every year. Ordinarily, seedling brands are at best curiosities with the......Read More

Primaluna Prologue Two Amplifier Reviewed

Be careful what you write: it might come back and haunt you, and maybe with frightening rapidity. Last June, I stated that, 'the PrimaLuna ProLogue One is now my "affordable reference amplifier".' I spoke too soon. I hadn't reckoned on......Read More

Quad 33 Preamp and 303 Amp Reviewed

Aaah, if only every manufacturer had this dilemma - too many classics in its c.v.! With Quad, do you think first of the original ESL or ESL63? The Quad 22/II? Or do you picture their biggest-selling pre-amp ever and their......Read More

Radford MA50 Renaissance Class-A Power Amp Reviewed

#75 lighter but I owned a Radford STA25 Mk III. It was 1978 and I was desperate to transcend the limitations of an ailing Rogers Cadet. Not that the Goodmans Eleganzas were all that hungry; I just knew that I......Read More

Red Rose Music Model 5 Integrated Amp and Baby System Reviewed

If I've learned anything about Mark Levinson*, it's that his stuff usually does things which it shouldn't. I mean that in the positive sense: early 'ML' series amplifiers from the 1970s, for example, seemed to me to produce subjectively more......Read More

Red Rose Music Rosette 1 Integrated Amp Reviewed

If the McIntosh MA6900 shows just how butch an integrated amp can be, then the Red Rose Rosette 1 shows how cute one can be. This adorable little jewel measures a mere 4.5x8.2x10.6in (WHD) and it just begs to be......Read More

Sim Audio Moon Integrated Amp Reviewed

Having only ever seen (and heard) Simaudio's products at foreign hi-fi shows, it was with much glee that I responded to the news that there was now a solid UK importer. The equipment always struck me as intelligent, non-political and......Read More

Sinfonia Preamp and Amp Reviewed

Now this is unusual: A UK reviewer reviewing a UK-made product which the British can't buy. When I was told that Musical Fidelity had produced a pre-amp and power amp exclusively for the Korean hi-fi community, I was naturally curious.......Read More

Solen Tiger Tube/MOSFET Integrated Amp Reviewed

Deliberate planning for 1992 may or may not have had anything to do with it, but the Europeans used the late 1980s to make their mark in high-end audio. Smashing a UK-US monopoly on 'serious' equipment, companies like Goldmund, Gryphon,......Read More

Sonic Frontiers SFS-50 Tube Power Amp Reviewed

Rules are meant to be broken. This time, it's our policy of not reviewing product without UK distribution. On occasion, we make exceptions, and the Sonic Frontiers SFS-50 valve amplifier is the sort of product which qualifies as a special......Read More

Sudgen A21 Amp Reviewed

Certain manufacturers have pre-empted Class-A operation as if they invented the technology, so it's easy to forget that nearly-forgotten British brands went to market with Class-A designs 30 years ago. As this isn't our classic hi-fi supplement and I'm not......Read More

Sugden Masterclass Preamp and Mono Amps Reviewed

How droll: here we are at a transitional period in audio history, when all of the hooded, scythe-bearing doomsayers are bellowing about the death of stereo, high end and/or hi-fi full-stop, and up pops one of the most impressive efforts......Read More

T+A K6 Integrated Amp and Compact Disc Player Reviewed

Sniff the air. Smell that? It's a trend, and it's all your fault. The juggernaut that is home cinema is rolling over the home entertainment landscape, and those manufacturers who targeted you in the two-channel days want to seduce you......Read More

T+A V-10 Amplifier Reviewed

If the whiff of 'retro' assailing your nostrils seems stronger than has been the norm for the past decade, your sense of smell is working properly. We've just witnessed the launch of three new turntables from brands not known for......Read More

Tag McLaren DVD32FLR DVD-Video Player Reviewed

Pity the manufacturer of DVD players circa 2003. Only last month, I walked into a large pharmacy and there, next to the shaving cream, was a chest-high stack of no-name players selling for £64. Sixty-four quid! Hell, I paid more......Read More

Theta Dreadnaught Amp reviewed

Why, this far into the A/V era, are we still surprised when a component earns praise for its 'crossover' ability? You know: the ones which sound as good in a purist, 2-channel music-only set-up as they do in a 5.1......Read More

Trilogy RC211 Power Amps Reviewed

Every time I grow angry with the innate British hatred of success and high achievement, along comes a product to remind me that the UK still cuts it when luxury goods are involved. Thus, the supreme irony of the British......Read More

Trilogy Vti Integrated Amp Reviewed

Funny how a cash injection can transform one's philosophy. Not that tube wizard Nic Poulson has suddenly become a fire-breathing capitalist, and the fact that he now drives a staid vehicle with four wheels instead of two mustn't be regarded......Read More

Unison Research Power Amp Reviewed

Motoring journalists, recently faced with the possibility of low-priced BMWs and Mercs, are torn between two types of conditioning. The forthcoming 'budget' Benzes and Bimmers (budget = VW Golf money) will mean that the two brands will have access to......Read More

Unison Research Simply 845 Integrated Amp Review

Although my own experience of Unison Research during its first decade has been limited to a mere three products, I must have chosen wisely for two of them were leading up to the Simply 845. From the Simply Two entry-level......Read More

Unison Research SR1 Tube Amp Reviewed

Think 'Unison Research' and, if the brand is known to you, you'll picture groovy wood and single-ended triodes. Trouble is, the new century has been celebrated by the firm with a change of the company structure, new partners and a......Read More

Valfet Audio Power Amplifier Reviewed

Valve scarcity and solid-state progress have almost forced valve amp manufacturers to blend the two technologies. While a number of purists survive -- those who wouldn't dream of mixing solid-state circuitry with that of tubes -- the trend has been......Read More