Californian Aesthetix’ valve / tube zero-feedback electronics are “designed to impress you and built to outlast you.” In 2024, seven of their superbly-crafted hi-fi components feature in the Editors’ Choice selections (again!). Continue reading Aesthetix’ high-performance electronics win another 7 Editors’ Choice Awards from The Absolute Sound
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Furutech’s “system redefining” cables & accessories in The Absolute Sound’s Editors’ Choice Awards 2024
Japanese high-end cable and accessories experts Furutech are no strangers to US audio magazine The Absolute Sound’s annual ‘best ofs’, and the Editors’ Choice Awards 2024 are no exception. Continue reading Furutech’s “system redefining” cables & accessories in The Absolute Sound’s Editors’ Choice Awards 2024
DS Audio’s innovative optical cartridges and accessories earn Five Editors’ Choice Awards 2024 from The Absolute Sound
“Name another recent technological advance that has changed the audio scene as much as DS Audio’s optical cartridges have. If you can’t, that’s because there is none,” says US hi-fi magazine The Absolute Sound. Moreover, the company just keeps on innovating, enhancing its offerings with technology trickled down from its top-of-range masterpieces. Continue reading DS Audio’s innovative optical cartridges and accessories earn Five Editors’ Choice Awards 2024 from The Absolute Sound
Clearaudio’s turntables, cartridges and accessories earn another 14 Editors’ Choice Awards from The Absolute Sound
US audio magazine The Absolute Sound’s annual Editors’ Choice Awards highlight a selection of the world’s best-sounding hi-fi. German analogue pioneers Clearaudio feature strongly again in 2024, with some long-standing favourites and some newly upgraded classics.
MBL collects another 12 Editor’s Choice Awards from The Absolute Sound in 2024
US magazine The Absolute Sound’s annual Editors’ Choice Awards single out those audio components that the magazine’s editors and expert reviewers deem as “most worthy of your consideration.” So much so, in fact, that “these are components that we ourselves would buy.” Continue reading MBL collects another 12 Editor’s Choice Awards from The Absolute Sound in 2024
“Goose bumps”: Hi-Fi Choice reaps the benefits of Furutech’s DAS-4.1 balanced interconnect cable
Furutech’s DAS-4.1 top-of-range bulk balanced interconnect cable, alongside the brand’s DPS-4.1 power and DSS-4.1 speaker cables, offers a high-performance option for ‘DIY’ audiophiles seeking to create their own bespoke cable solutions.
Optical cartridges ‘go mainstream”: What Hi-Fi reviews the DS Audio DS-003
The message that optical phono cartridge technology can offer clear advantages over moving magnet and moving coil designs is finally ‘crossing the border’ from high-end hi-fi to more mainstream audio media, as What Hi-Fi discovers the superb performance of DS Audio’s DS-003.
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CAD’s USB Control is ‘on a completely different level’ when it comes to tackling digital noise, says The Audiophile Man
‘Can your digital hi-fi chain do with some noise reduction?’ asks Paul Rigby, aka The Audiophile Man. Whether you realise it not, the answer is almost certainly yes, and CAD’s USB Control is a solution that’s unobtrusively small, effortlessly simple and incredibly effective.
What Hi-Fi reviews Kerr Acoustic’s K300 Mk3 standmounts
With the vast range of choice available in the loudspeaker market, should you opt to audition a less-known brand over the established competition? What Hi-Fi says yes, if it’s Kerr Acoustic’s entry-level K300 Mk3 loudspeaker. Continue reading What Hi-Fi reviews Kerr Acoustic’s K300 Mk3 standmounts
“A blessed miracle”: Ken Kessler is both shaken and stirred by DS Audio’s “close to flawless” Master 3 optical cartridge
Ken Kessler is no stranger to Japanese optical phono cartridge pioneer DS Audio, having reviewed almost the company’s entire range. However, the new ‘semi flagship’ Master 3 model proves to be “an even bigger disruptor than the [flagship] Grand Master EX”… an “event component” that’s “as close to flawless as any cartridge I’ve heard.” Continue reading “A blessed miracle”: Ken Kessler is both shaken and stirred by DS Audio’s “close to flawless” Master 3 optical cartridge
David Denyer PR | The hi-fi specialist 