This high-grade five-channel amplifier tops the Canadian maker’s lineup, and shows Steve Withers the true meaning of dynamic range. Read our ANTHEM MCA 525 GEN 2 Review. Av Info Product Premium five-channel Class A/B power amplifier Position Anthem’s highest-spec power amp Peers NAD M28; Primare A35.8; Emotiva XPA-11 ANTHEM’S NEW LINEUP of power amplifiers has … Read more
Better known for its speakers, ELAC’s range of electronics now has a new flagship turntable. Ed Selley takes it for a spin. Read our ELAC Miracord 80 Turntable Review. Though ELAC is most fondly associated with its JET tweeter system, it also offers a significant range of electronics and this is not something it has only turned to recently … Read more
Despite what he sang in his song Helpless (“there is a town in North Ontario, with dream comfort memory to spare…”), Neil Young’s home town of Omemee is very much in South Ontario. In fact, it’s less than 100km from PSB’s base in Pickering, which in Canadian terms is basically next door. Read our PSB Alpha iQ Review. Simon Lucas The … Read more
Vimberg is the sister brand to TIDAL of TIDAL Audio GmbH, a German high-end manufacturer which has been making top end electronics and loudspeakers since the late 1990s. Just how ‘top’ is ‘top end’? Three words sum that up: “TIDAL for Bugatti”. It could be very easy to make the more attainably priced Vimberg a diffusion brand, offering little of what TIDAL delivers … Read more
Does this upgraded entry-level speaker range still offer the best bang for your buck? Steve Withers finds out Budget models made better. Read our ACOUSTIC ENERGY 100 SERIES MK2 5.1 Review. Acoustic Energy says it enjoyed ‘amazing success’ with its original 100 Series of entry-level speakers, but the British company has now decided the time is … Read more
The aesthetic is familiar, but this two-channel amp is cut from a different cloth than many of its stablemates. Mark Craven gets to grips with McIntosh’s custom install contender. Read our McIntosh MI502 Review. AMERICAN MANUFACTURER MCINTOSH is known for its hi-fi hardware, including some premium, gorgeously styled tube amps, but as the launch of its MHT300 … Read more
The Magnetar brand may be largely unknown, but its first high-end disc spinner is hard to resist, says Steve May. Read our MAGNETAR UDP800 Review. As I listened to Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith play funky jazz, on a dusted down Super Audio CD, it struck me that perhaps the most compelling reason to invest in the Magnetar … Read more
Richard Stevenson salutes the no-stone-unturned approach of this monster 15.4-channel AV amplifier. Read our DENON AVC-A1H Review. Denon’s blast from the past Japan’s Denon has a rich history of wheeling out truly referenceclass AV amplifiers and, spoiler alert, it has done it again. The AVC-A1H is its latest feature- and performance-heavy flagship multichannel machine that … Read more
Wilson Audio Alexx V floorstanding loudspeakers Damn those Romans! Whenever you see the capital letter ‘V’ after a name, you think it’s a suffix, denoting ‘the fifth’. Read our Wilson Audio Alexx V Review. Alan Sircom It summons up the ‘band of brothers’ speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V the Saturn V rocket that put men on the moon … Read more
The loudspeaker specialist long beloved by die-hard AV-Holics is now taking aim at regular living rooms with its D95 on-wall model. Ed Selley investigates. Read our MK Sound D95 Review. THE RANGE OF loudspeakers from audio brand M&K Sound already covers off a wide selection of AV roles, so the new D Series has been added to appeal to … Read more
The soundbar whizz has brought welcome usability improvements to a new compact, £ model, but how does it perform? Mark Craven listens in. Read our JBL Bar 300 Review. JBL Bar 300 The Bar 300 has onboard Dolby Atmos decoding but maps sound mixes to a 5.0 driver array with no physical up fires AV … Read more
A mid-range subwoofer from MartinLogan, the Dynamo 800X crams features and flexibility into a compact cabinet. Richard Stevenson is very impressed. Read our MARTINLOGAN DYNAMO 800X Review. 1. The Dynamo 800X’s feet can be repositioned, turning it from down-firer to front-firer Av info Product 10in active subwoofer with ARC EQ Position Middle model in the five-strong Dynamo series Peers MA … Read more