Cinnamon Galle DAC Hi-fi shows are sadly not always the best places to audition audio gear, they are noisy and often cramped but fundamentally they rarely play the music you are familiar with at the right levels. At the recent Hi-Fi Show Deluxe the smaller of Boyer Audio’s dem rooms managed to contradict this impression […]
Michell Revolv turntable, arm & cartridge The Michell Revolv is a belt driven, unsuspended turntable. Nothing about this bare bones description is remotely novel; it’s the type standard for most turntables hitting the market in 2026 and a formula that is capable of great results. Where the novelty creeps in is the existence of the […]
Moor Amps mana DAC It’s becoming increasingly clear that there’s an elephant in the high end audio listening room and that herbivore is aluminium. This material is almost ubiquitous in the casework of high end audio components and even a few loudspeakers, it’s relatively easy to machine into attractive shapes and when anodised has a […]
Pro-ject Debut Reference 10 turntable When a company with the history and reputation of Austria’s Pro-ject launches the ‘best ever’ turntable in its established and well-respected Debut series, it cannot be ignored and I got myself in the queue to get one for the Ear as soon as the news broke. Pro-ject claims to be […]
Rega Planar 6 RS Edition turntable, arm & cartridge Rega RS Edition turntables are beginning to become a thing, two years ago we had the Planar 3 RS, a version of their most successful design that took elements from the Planar 6 and also had a brushed aluminium satin finish, albeit in black rather than […]
Korf TA-AF9 Series II tonearm Korf tonearms aren’t that well known. But just because they don’t have a following going back years doesn’t mean they need time to get things right. Alexey Korf has built an arm with a reputation which deserves attention, and has built a very strong following, and in relatively short order. […]
The Wand Dark-Light tonearm Pick-up arms are wonderful things. They do an amazing job of supporting a signal generator over an fast-moving undulating groove while ensuring that the stylus reading the groove maintains good (enough) contact with the groove walls in order to extract all the musical information contained within it. Approaches to achieving that […]
Clearaudio Compass turntable, arm & cartridge I have been around audio as a consumer, retailer and reviewer for a very long time but this is my first encounter with any product from Clearaudio, a company founded in Germany in 1978. From that time the company has built a very impressive product portfolio, centred around turntables, […]
iFi iDSD Phantom DAC streamer headphone amp On a wet night in January iFi launched its most ambitious digital to analogue converter to date in one of the towers on London’s Tower Bridge, it was a novel location which will have helped get journalists out into the rain, fortunately the appearance of a recording industry […]
Primare Allt-i-Ett one box system Allt-i-Ett. No, not a secret keyboard shortcut to hack Elon Musk’s PIN number but, if you speak Swedish or Norwegian, simply ‘all-in-one’. After a 41 year run building some of the world’s sleekest Scandi-fi separates for both music and home cinema lovers, Allt-i-Ett is Primare’s long-awaited lifestyle concept album, the […]
Woodnote Solo streamer Woodnote is an example of a European hi-fi manufacturer that has grasped the nettle when it comes to shifting requirements in the market place. The brand is part of Lindemann, a company that started out making conventional 17 inch components in 1993 with the integrated Amp1, they made a CD player six […]
Pro-ject CD Box RS2 Tube CD player While unboxing the CD Box RS2 Tube, I discovered a watch battery and an Allen key for the super-sleek remote control. I immediately set about installing said battery, which required the dexterity of a Swiss horologist: five very small screws, two expletives, and one dropped screw later, I […]