Grimm Audio joins JPlay The new JPlay 1.4.3 update, available now on the App Store, introduces UPnP Eventing support – enabling full bidirectional control between JPlay and the Grimm Audio MU1 and MU2 music players. JPlay is proud to announce that Grimm Audio has joined the JPlay Certified partner program. The Dutch manufacturer’s acclaimed MU1 […]
Volumio Primo V3 streaming DAC Volumio, the leading audio software platform for music streaming and playback, today announced the launch of the third generation of Primo, the company’s beloved first streaming DAC. Primo V3 is a streaming DAC completely reinvented around Volumio’s latest engineering solutions to set a new standard for Volumio’s streaming DAC range. […]
Custom Design Kinetik Sound KS4 speakers It was back in 2015 when we first had the inspiration to manufacture a totally rigid, inert speaker cabinet made from steel. But it wasn’t until the Munich High End Show in 2022 when we managed to produce a prototype speaker cabinet after talking to several speaker designers at […]
Quad Platina CDT & Integrated transport & amplifier There are very few manufacturers of audio equipment who can claim to have been around for 90 years, but Quad most certainly can. Legend is a lazy epithet these days (a bit like iconic), but I think that we can safely and accurately apply it to Peter […]
High End 2026, Vienna At the end of every High End show report we’re always left with images of spectacular or fascinating gear but not that much information. Rather than leaving them in the vault here are a few of the components and systems that caught our eye and in some cases our ears too.
PMC is 35, Tom Loader talks about the family business he now runs At the Vienna High End show earlier this month PMC celebrated 35 years since the company was founded by Peter Thomas and Adrian Loader. Today the PMC is co-run by Ollie Thomas and Tom Loader, it’s very much a family business despite […]
Would you like a lease hire hi-fi system? The separates hi-fi industry has a problem, and it isn’t sound quality. Today’s equipment has never been better. The problem is price. Even entry-level components now cost considerably more than they did only five or ten years ago, while genuinely high-end systems have moved into territory that […]
Little Fwend Low Mk2 automatic tonearm lifter Back in the heyday of turntables and vinyl, let’s call it the ‘70s, there were many automatic turntables that lifted the arm when it got to the end of the record, they even stopped the platter spinning and only the diligent felt the need to put the vinyl […]
The musicians who created this album are New York based, yet Spark is homage to rhythms and sounds that are associated with rural Americana. Though it has its self-indulgent moments Spark is a gentle love letter to rhythms and styles that are associated with lazy afternoons spent reclining on a porch in a small town, […]