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Active speakers
KEF LS LUXE – A Loudspeaker That Listens To Itself and the First Touch of Ice
The First Audiophile in Literature In the first pages of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a gypsy called Melquíades drags two metal bars…
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Power Amps
LAB12 integre4 Mk2 Toroid – homecoming to a powerful KT150 tube amplifier
Nostos A word in Homeric Greek that English has never quite managed to carry across. Nostos. It is usually translated as…
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Interviews
Interview with Szymon Rutkowski – Owner and designer of Graphite Audio
The Weight of Things. We spend a fortune training our ears and almost nothing training our hands, and yet the…
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Active speakers
Marantz Horizon – The Graphic Artist’s Revenge
The Graphic Artist Almost all great audio companies have been founded by an engineer; it is so true that we…
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Turntable
PRO-JECT XTENSION 9 EVOLUTION – The Elegant Refusal of Audiophile Madness
EVO 9 CC Black tonearm · Pick it DS2 MC cartridge · Olive finish The Elegant Denial of Audiophile Madness There is a particular…
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Cartridge
Hana Umami Red – The Undeniable Delicious Fifth Sense of Music
Umami In Japanese, umami (旨味) translates to “pleasant savory taste”, to “deliciousness”. Derived from the adjective umai (“delicious”) and mi (“taste”), it is officially recognized…
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Portable
Sennheiser Momentum 5 – Warmth, Quiet, and 57 Hours of Freedom
A mature, polished wireless ANC flagship that trades a little outright sparkle for warmth, comfort, genuinely top-tier noise canceling, and…
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Interviews
Yamaha NX-70A – Hi-Fi, reimagined for the modern living room
An interview at HIGH END Vienna 2026 on the brand-new wireless Hi-Fi active speaker, followed by a detailed look at…
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Interviews
Alessandro Schiavi and Paolo Tezzon of Diapason: “The Sound that Never Gets Old”
An interview at High-End Vienna 2026 with founder Alessandro Schiavi and designer Paolo Tezzon, on Didascàlia — the new Diapason’s…
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Reviews
Authentic Audio Image (AAI) — Harmony behind the Collapsed Event
The Texture of Reality We like to believe that we live in reality. We do not. We live in a…
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