Passive

Life-Changer Audio Icon 5 delivers the promise

Life-Changer Audio Icon 5 Balanced passive preamplifier It would gratuitously underplay Pál Nagy’s formidable intellectual and engineering skills to characterise his newly-launched Icon 5 line control unit as the result of global collaboration. Nonetheless, while the Icon 5 is designed and made by Nagy in Manchester, it has threads linking it to the wider world […]

Music First Reference V2.1: reference by nature

Music First Audio Reference V2.1 preamplifier I’m getting worried about Music First main man Jonathan Billington. Each time I get one of his products it is, like him, modest, understated and goes far beyond what one might expect from such an understated yet finely crafted set of components. The worry is that I keep thinking […]