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Accessories
Graphite Audio ISSB-40 & IC-35 – Black Lead, and Other Beautiful Misunderstandings
Black Lead Sometime before 1565, in the Borrowdale valley of what is now the English Lake District, a storm tore an old tree…
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Interviews
Rob Watts – in conversation with the designer of the Chord Quartet
In April we stood in the Chord Electronics factory in East Farleigh, Kent, and listened to a product we were…
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Reviews
Yamaha True X Surround 90A Review — I Take It All Back!
Walt Disney’s Bumblebee In the late 1930s, Walt Disney had a problem with an insect. He was building Fantasia, his feature-length…
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Interviews
Sven Boenicke – in conversation with the founder of Boenicke Audio, Basel
A conversation about listening, wood and the soul of handmade things. Introduction Before a violin maker glues the top to…
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News
RS Audio Launches the Apparition Series
Why This One Got Our Attention We receive a great many cable announcements. Most describe the same object in the…
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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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