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Plinius Launch Digital Players

New Zealand based manufacturer, Plinius Audio, has announced it is introducing the Tiki network media player and Toko digital media player. Tiki is essentially a network capable digital to analogue converter, it connects to a home network via Ethernet to retrieve music files stored on a server or NAS. The Tiki prioritises the treatment of the sensitive audio signals and avoids additional sources of noise and […]

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Hifi Review – Chord’s New Entry Level Interconnects

When we heard that Chord had introduced a new range of affordable interconnects we just had to get a set and see if they passed muster. The new range consists of the Crimson Vee 3 (£55 per stereo metre), the Cobra Vee 3 (£95 per stereo metre) and the Chameleon Vee 3 (£135 per stereo […]

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Clarity Alliance Elect Laurence Armstrong as Chairman

Following a ballot of the members of The Clarity Alliance (an alliance of the best of the audio and video industries in the UK), Laurence Armstrong, managing director of Henley Designs, has been elected as the next chairman of the Alliance. In order for the Alliance to be successful in its objective of raising the […]

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The Chord Company Launch New Reference

The Chord Company has launched Reference versions of its three most popular mid-priced interconnects. Identified by the new ‘Reference’ suffix, the redesigned Cadenza Reference and all-new Chorus Reference and Anthem Reference, replace the existing models. The three-strong range of Reference-level interconnects features the new VEE 3 plug, first seen in the new Crimson, Cobra and […]

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Wolfgang Voigt – Zukunft Ohne Menschen

Voigt is owner of the Kompakt label and on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, was invited to contribute to Art Cologne, Colognes highly respected art fair. For the event, Voigt designed the sound installation “Inter Alia” which was situated in the entrance area of the art fair. On this album Zukunft Ohne Menschen (Future […]

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Hifi Review – Graditech Audio Cables

Graditech are a Finnish manufacturer of audio cables who make a small range of interconnects, digital and loudspeaker cables. Their Lumi3 loudspeaker cable looked very interesting as Graditech are claiming that this could be the last loudspeaker cable you could ever need due to it’s interesting and unique construction – it has three pairs of […]

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Light Harmonic Launch Kickstarter Campaign for GEEK DAC

Light Harmonic, manufacturers of the Da Vinci DAC and Da Vinci Dual DAC, today launched a campaign on the Kickstarter website to introduce “GEEK”, “a cutting- edge portable DAC and headphone amp”. “We’re excited that we can take technology developed while designing and building Da Vinci DAC and Dual DAC, and bring it to the […]

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Phantom Limb – PhantomLimb

OK, I must confess that Phantom Limb completely passed me by and it is more by good fortune than good planning that I find myself writing this review of their first, eponymous album …admittedly coming a little late to the party.  Sadly it would seem that in January of this year they split! Formed in […]

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Concrete Audio N1 Loudspeaker

The guys at Concrete Audio, the German loudspeaker manufacturer, got in touch to tell us about their N1 loudspeakers which is unusually made from concrete – as the company name may suggest. “The sound of a loudspeaker dependents largely on the quality of the speaker housing,” says Frank Nebel, head of the company. “Unlike a […]

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Monitor Audio Fine-Tune Radius Loudspeakers

Monitor audio announced today they will be “fine-tuning” their Radius loudspeaker range. Alongside re-vamped Radius 45, 90 and 270 designs, the new eight-strong loudspeaker line-up includes slimmed-down versions of the 225 centre speaker and Radius One soundbar, together with a new Radius 200 centre-channel speaker and two compact active subwoofers: Radius 380 and 390. For […]

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One Night in Comeme – Volume 3

This chunk of tuneage landed on my desktop this afternoon from international dance music label Cómeme who whilst based in Europe release music mainly from Latin America. It’s the third Volume of ONE NIGHT IN CÓMEME! – a new series of compilations including a selection of released tracks, unreleased surprises and alternate versions of Cómeme […]