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Ruark R7 Radiogram
Many of us of a certain age will remember the radiogram, now Ruark bring it bang up to date with their R7 Radiogram costing £2000. John Scott gets a bit nostalgic in what is a bit of a departure for...
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exaSound e32 DAC
exaSound are a Canadian brand that make just a handful of products. Here David Blumenstein takes delivery of their $3499.00 e33 Digital to Analogue Converter. Five years ago I embarked upon a decision...
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Innuos Zenith MK2
Dan Worth takes a look at the Innuos Zenith MK2 an all in one streamer, CD ripper and SSD storage unit costing from £2299 depending on storage capacity chosen. So what is an Innuos Zenith MK2? I hear...
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Auralic Aries
Auralic refer to the Aries as a “bridge”; basically a digital device which refers to a networked music library from the likes of a NAS drive, or by use of an external USB hard drive, connected directly...
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Melco N1A/2 Music Library
The N1A/2 from Melco is intended to improve on the originals sonic performance, particularly for those using USB DACs. It can store a whole library of your music on its on-board drives and costs £2099...
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MUTEC MC-3+ Smart Clock USB (Master Clock/Reclocker/SPDIF Converter)
Dan Worth plugs the £900 MUTEC MC-3+ Smart Clock USB into a couple of his systems with some interesting results. MUTEC products are installed in cutting edge broadcast and television stations,...
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AVM Inspiration CS2.2
Costing £3995 the AVM Inspiration CS2.2 packs a lot under the hood. It’s a streamer, a CD player, DAC, FM radio, Internet radio player, it has an on-board MM/MC phonostage and outputs a healthy amount...
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Linn Klimax DS (KATALYST) – Dedicated Streamer
Linn’s Klimax DS is a dedicated streamer with just an ethernet input to connect to your music library and yet it costs almost £16 000. Can Linn justify this high price with an equally stunning...
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Musical Fidelity M6 Encore Connect Multi Format Audio Streamer
Musical Fideity’s M6 Encore Connect is a ripper, streamer and preamplifier all in one handy, if substantial box. It costs £3629 and Lionel Payne hooked it up to his system to see if it came up to...
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Auralic Polaris – All in One Streaming Amplifier
Based around Auralic’s Lightning DS Streaming Platform, which is one of the most intuitive and responsive software systems around for devices of this type, Polaris incorporates a wired/wireless...
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Burson Conductor Virtuoso V2+ Headphone Amp/DAC
Australian manufacturer Burson’s Conductor Virtuoso V2+ comes with a DAC, a headphone amp and doubles the output of the original version to 8W into 16 Ohms. Janine Elliot dons her cans and takes this...
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Chord Electronics DAVE DAC
Stuart and Linette Smith have had the Chord DAVE DAC sat on their rack for the best part of a year now and don’t want it to go home. Find out why. I remember being at the High-End Show in Munich a...
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Bakoon Satri DAC-21 D2A Digital To Analogue Converter
The Bakoon Satri DAC-21 D2A DAC is diminutive in size, but does it make up in sound quality what it is lacking in stature? Janine Elliot finds out. I have played with a number of DACs over the years of...
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M2 Tech Rockstar Separates
Crosby, Young, Gifted and, er, not Black…John Scott hangs out with M2Tech’s Rockstar separates and finds himself helpless to resist their charms. Italian manufacturer M2Tech’s Rockstar series of audio...
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Cyrus Audio OneHD Integrated Amp and DAC
The Cyrus OneHD is an integrated amp and DAC with a whole host of connectivity for what looks to be a very reasonable £999. Alan McIntosh takes a listen. Having never been introduced to Cyrus before,...
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Gold Note IS-1000 Streamer and Integrated Amplifier
Italian brands Gold Note IS-1000 Streamer and Integrated Amplifier does what it says on the tin and has an impressive range of connectivity, high power output and even has a built in MM/MC phonostage....
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Roon Nucleus +
The Roon Nucleus + is essentially a Roon specific dedicated network streamer costing £2500, but what does it bring to the whole Roon experience sonically? John Scott finds out. Way back in the mists...
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Metronome Technologies AQWO CD/SACD PLayer and DAC
French company Metronome Technologies make a whole host of kit for the digital domain, here Stuart Smith tries out their AQWO CD/SACD player and DAC with valve output stage costing £13,870 Euros as...
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x-odos – xo|one CD Ripping Streamer
Dan Worth takes a listen to the catchily named x-odos – xo|one CD Ripping Streamer costing £7500 and hailing from Germany. German-based x-odos is a relatively new manufacturer in high-end streaming....
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Micromega M150 Integrated Amplifier, DAC and Streamer
In which John Scott confronts a philosophical pachyderm, feeds it a bun, pats it gently on its trunk and sends it on its way. Or John Scott takes delivery of the Micromega M150 Integrated...
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