“This is the definitive guide to the best home entertainment kit you can buy,” writes Kobina Monney, editor of the What Hi-Fi? Buyer’s Guide in the magazine’s February issue.
And the stakes just got higher: the Guide has recently undergone a major overhaul and now features a considerably streamlined list of ‘Best Buys’. So who made the cut?
Continue reading Aesthetix, Clearaudio, Gamut & IsoTek among new What Hi-Fi? ‘Best Buys’
The Hi-Fi Choice Yearbook is out and on the news-stands. “Inside this 164-page special edition you’ll find our pick from the ultimate collection of the greatest-sounding audio products to undergo our respected reviewing process in 2015,” writes editor Lee Dunkley.
Among them are three gems from British brand Exposure Electronics.
Continue reading Three ‘hits’ for Exposure in Hi-Fi Choice Yearbook 2015
‘The Gamut sound’ from Danish high-end hi-fi brand Gamut Audio has been developing quite a reputation in 2015 and what better way to bring the year to a close than with a coveted Gold Award for ‘Best Sound’ at the New York Audio Show.
Continue reading Gamut receive Gold Award for ‘Best Sound’ at New York Audio Show
Every year, the Hi-Fi World Awards single out the audio products that have particularly impressed the magazine’s expert review team during the previous 12 months. Among their pick of the most outstanding products of 2015 is Icon Audio’s MB81, which takes the award for ‘Best Valve Amplifer’. Continue reading Icon Audio MB81 wins ‘Best Valve Amp’ in Hi-Fi World Awards 2015
Portable audio experts ADL (Alpha Design Labs, sister brand of Japanese Furutech) previously created a small revolution with the GT40, an extraordinarily handy little gadget that quickly became known as ‘the Swiss Army knife of audio components’ and picked up a raft of awards. Now, the new ADL Stratos is set to raise the bar even higher with more features and further enhanced performance.
Online audio forum Positive Feedback has just announced the winners of its 12th Annual Writers’ Choice Awards, in which the forum’s writers and editors recognize “superior merit in the audio arts”.
Among the ‘best of the best’ in 2015 is the Proteus phono cartridge from Japanese high-end brand Transfiguration.
Leading US monthly hi-fi magazine Stereophile has just announced its Products of the Year for 2015.
Among the “seven products that kicked righteous wads of ass and made it worthwhile to be an audiophile” is Magnepan’s Magneplanar 0.7 loudspeaker, which is both a finalist for Loudspeaker of the Year and outright winner of the Budget Component of the Year category, while Miyajima’s top-of-range Madake phono cartridge is a finalist for Analog Component of the Year. Continue reading Magneplanar 0.7 loudspeaker and Miyajima Madake cartridge in Stereophile Products of the Year 2015
British brand Exposure Electronics has long been renowned for creating high-performance audio components with involving musical reality and an affordable price tag.
As the newly-enhanced ‘D’ edition of its 3010S2 integrated amplifier scoops the AV Tech Media Award for ‘Best Stereo Integrated Amplifier 2015/16’, the brand launches the 3010S2-D preamp sporting the same upgrades. Continue reading Exposure launches new enhanced edition of 3010S2-D preamplifier
Hi-Fi World reviewer Paul Rigby discovered the joys of Miyajima’s mono cartridges back in 2014, penning rave reviews of the Japanese artisan brand’s Kotetu and Zero models.
But things become rather more competitive when it comes to stereo, as Rigby points out in his recent review of Miyajima’s Takumi stereo cartridge. “Would Miyajima reveal itself to be only a one-trick mono pony,” he wondered.
Hardly! “Outstanding – among the best,” concluded Rigby, awarding the Takumi Hi-Fi World’s full five stars. Continue reading Hi-Fi World gives Miyajima’s Takumi stereo MC cartridge the full five stars
Each year, three of the UK’s leading premium AV magazines – Hi-Fi Choice, Home Cinema Choice and Hi-Fi News & Record Review – put their expert heads together to single out the best available AV products currently on the market.
Collectively, the three publications test and review more hi-fi, TV and home theatre equipment than any other UK organization and the Awards are informed by this pool of experience.
The 2015/16 Awards have just been announced and we’re delighted that Exposure Electronics have won the ‘Best Stereo Integrated Amplifier’ category, with their top-of-range 3010S2-D. Continue reading Exposure Electronics’ top integrated amp scoops AV Tech Media Award
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