GIK Amplitude Acoustic Panels Building your perfect system can often be a frustrating process. Often, despite painstakingly choosing and assembling our dream setup, we still find aspects of the system’s performance that fall short. You may have invested in the best supports and, perhaps cables and mains products with price tags that make you wince, […]
Origin Live Ground Anchor turntable grounding device We are growing accustomed to the fact that it is beneficial to a hi-fi system to deal with any noise that comes in on the mains or is put onto the mains by other system components. And there are many products that help deal with that, such as […]
Origin Live Gravity Two record weight Most of you will know Origin Live as a manufacturer of turntables and pickup arms. Founded by Mark Baker, they have been manufacturing these products for several decades. Record weights, though, are a new development for them – until very recently they had always found that the weights and […]
The Ear’s reviewers pick the best hi-fi of 2025 If you want to discover the best hi-fi of 2025, the audio products that really wowed our reviewers over the last 12 months, look no further. These components made a lasting impression, they are the ones reviewers would have held onto if they could and in […]
Russ Andrews Network Purifier streaming filter We have looked at a variety of devices for reducing noise in audio systems over recent years and have generally found them to be highly beneficial. However, when Russ Andrews sent me a small, light box I wasn’t very excited at the prospect of reviewing another relatively affordable network […]
Stack Audio Serene Stabiliser & record mat I have always been very sceptical of putting anything on a turntable platter which hadn’t been endorsed (ie supplied or approved) by the turntable manufacturer. After all, they, after what must be considerable research, had chosen the particular item based on their own listening tests, albeit with regard […]
Chord Company Phono Aray turntable grounding device ‘Stay grounded’ has become an audiophile touchstone – not in the sense of resisting the urge to upgrade (never gonna happen) but making arguably the most vital upgrade there is: lowering your system’s noise floor. The proliferation of grounding/earthing products with that specific aim speaks to a growing […]
Noise-Trap passive mains filter In most countries, high frequency noise on the AC power supply – often worse at certain times of the day – causes audio systems to dip in sonic performance. The high frequency noise seems to have a curious effect on some humans too, causing them to assure us that the variability […]
Stack Audio Smooth-LAN Regenerator network filter Stack Audio first hit the scene with a streamer, a product that never really came to fruition but which lead to the rather more affordable Link streamer and its successor the Link II. Today Theo Stack and his crew are making streaming accessories that inhabit the brand’s trademark machined […]
Connected-Fidelity AC-2K Reference balanced power supply, Six Star distribution block & Unity Power Two cables We all know how important it is to choose the individual components of our systems carefully, usually with protracted listening tests at a retailer and in our homes. But a system is more than just a turntable, CD player, streamer, […]
Isoslice The Block & Turntable isolation platforms I met Isoslice owner Paul Mallyon at the UK Audio show in London last year, where he was exhibiting his Isoslice platforms. He had small pads for loudspeakers and a larger one for turntables. He explained that, as a professional musician and composer, and recording engineer of some […]
Russ Andrews X6 block MkII, RF Router, Technical Ground Weave, Evolution-300 Powerkord, Yello Power, DC Blocker Russ Andrews has long been of the opinion that power delivery and grounding are critical to the potential of any sound system, he introduced an audiophile power cable as far back as 1986 and have a number of useful […]