In this week’s video, I lined the KEF LS LUXE up against the Buchardt A500 that I raved about in 2020. Six years is a long time in the life of an active loudspeaker, especially one with a computer ...

Hegel has announced two new integrated amplifiers which, under the hood, share the same amplifier circuit. Both run a 150wpc Class A/B output section into 8 Ohms. Both stay stable down to 2 Ohm loads.

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The pros and cons of streaming active loudspeakers, not as a tidy list of ticks and crosses, but as a run of arguments, each ...

The LS LUXE is an egg-shaped streaming standmount from KEF, designed by Ross Lovegrove. In simple terms, it’s the LS50 Wireless II given a glow-up. That much, I think, is easy to grasp. The arithmetic ...

Warp will reissue Aphex Twin’s Drukqs on 30 October. Four physical formats are imminent: a 4LP box set sold direct through the Aphex Twin store and Bleep; a standard 4LP on black vinyl in a gatefold ...

There is no DAC inside the Eversolo T8. You have to BYO. US$1380 (€1380) buys a box that makes no analogue sound of its own.

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This is the fourth in a series of four – maybe five – CD player reviews for 2026. One answer is that it’s made in Japan, not China. Another is that Marantz builds its own optical disc mechanism there, ...