T+A is staying quiet about the chip deployed at the centre of the D/A converter’s circuit — but which centre? The DAC in the ...

Audiolab’s 6000A is a popular sub-€1000 amplifier — and for good reason. It combines 50wpc into 8 Ohms with a ...

Dynaudio’s Confidence 20 is the Danish company’s flagship standmount loudspeaker. It’s a 2-way design that marries a 2.8cm Esotar3 soft dome tweeter to an 18cm NeoTec MSP mid/bass driver using a ...

The Vibelink Amp delivers optimal clarity, and unlike many powered amplifiers, its digital optical and coaxial inputs also ...

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My Lisbon listening room measures 7m wide x 4m deep with a 3m ceiling. The loudspeakers fire across the room to put the main listening position 2.4m back from the loudspeaker plane. In the rear left ...

Down the pike from Schiit Audio comes the Stjarna phono pre-amplifier. According to the now mostly Texan manufacturer, Stjarna is “an all-out, limited-production all-tube design”.  We might see it as ...

When listening to music played through loudspeakers in a room, we hear two types of sound: 1) the sound that travels directly from the loudspeakers to the listening position and 2) the sound that ...

Laurence Dickie is (perhaps) best known for co-designing the Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus in the early 90s. Nowadays, Dickie heads up engineering at Vivid Audio where – from his Brighton base – he ...