How has SVS managed to get so much bass out of a sealed cabinet so compact and so affordable? Steve Withers falls in love with the SB-1000 Pro. Read our SVS SB-1000 Pro Review. SINCE 1999 AMERICAN company SVS has built a formidable reputation by mainly focusing on one thing – manufacturing powerful home cinema … Read more
Dynamite dynamics that speak the truth from Triangle. John Pickford is impressed. Read our TRIANGLE BOREA BR03 Review. Big sound from little boxes is a neat trick to pull off in loudspeaker design and that’s exactly Triangle’s aim with the Borea BR03 – a bookshelf speaker with the scale of a floorstander. Referring to them … Read more
Who wants the inconvenience of having to get up and lift the needle out of the groove at the end of every LP? Thankfully, Thorens has a retro solution to an age-old problem. Read our Thorens TD 148A Review. [wpsm_toplist] DETAILS Thorens TD 148A Germany Automatic beltdrive turntable 7.9kg (WxHxD) 430 x140 x370mm 33/45/78rpm TP95 tonearm Ortofon … Read more
JBL turns the clock back for inspiration for the latest addition to its Studio Monitor series, another retro classic in the making. Read our JBL 4349 Review. Don’t look back in anger” a certain Gallagher brother once sang and who better to exhort the benefit of the past than JBL? Though the American speaker specialist might … Read more
THERE’S NOTHING MORE annoying than buying a brand-new projector, only for it to be replaced by something slightly better the following year. JVC has been guilty of this in the past – releasing generational iterations with small incremental improvements. But based on my experience with the N7 over the last two years, this policy appears to … Read more
If he still had a pair David Vivian would dig out the flares to review this blast from the past that sounds anything but dated. Read our JBL L82 Classic Review. [wpsm_toplist] Retro is enjoying something of a revival, and not just with hi-fi. The so-called restomod trend is furnishing car enthusiasts with modern updates … Read more
Yes, this 4K HDR laser-based native 4K projector has a daydream price tag, but its design, setup flexibility and picture performance merit it. The way Sony’s range-topping beamer tackles HDR playback is magical.
For those wanting the legendary LS3/5a exactly as it was, an impressed David Vivian might just have discovered the answer. Read our Falcon Acoustics LS3 5a Gold Badge Review. A confession: in over 30 years of reviewing, I have never heard the BBC-developed LS3/5a, either as a rare original or any of the more recent incarnations … Read more
As one of the oldest names in hi-fi returns with a classic sub-chassis turntable from the seventies, HFC tosses aside its flares to see how it fares in the 20th century. Read our Thorens TD 1601 Review. DETAILS PRODUCT Thorens TD 1601 ORIGIN Germany TYPE Belt-drive turntable WEIGHT 11kg DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 440 x 180 x 370mm FEATURES • … Read more
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Elipson has updated its turntables for 2020. Ed Selley jumps into the fray with the all-singing, all-dancing Chroma 400 RIAA BT. Read our Elipson Chroma 400 RIAA BT Review. One of the tell-tale indicators as to how serious a manufacturer is about joining a new market segment is not the range of products for its first … Read more
The new Chora 816 from Focal is a lot of entry-level speaker for the money. But will it win the heart of Chris Frankland? Read our Focal CHORA 816 Review. [wpsm_toplist] The Chora 816 from Focal is a lot of ‘speaker. It is well presented and finished and would give an owner confidence in having … Read more