As its most affordable home DAC, this pared-back design uses Chord’s advanced FPGA chip and offers extensive file support If you’ve been keeping up with Chord Electronics’ pretty extensive range of digital-to-analogue converters you’ll know that the 2Qute (HFC 402) was closely related to the Hugo (HFC 386), boasting the company’s distinct Chordette casing but … Read more
Celebrating 25 years as the entry point to B&W’s speakers, Ed Selley thinks this one has a commendable sense of occasion Twenty five years is a long time in the world of hi-fi. It’s sufficient to see off many rivals altogether, so it’s impressive that Bowers & Wilkins has now been producing the 600 Series for a quarter … Read more
Monitor Audio’s CP-IW460X promises premium cabinet speaker performance from a discreet in-wall design. Richard Stevenson gets out the jigsaw to investigate. Read our MONITOR AUDIO CP-IW460X Review. Full-range in-wall loudspeaker POSITION: Flagship of the Controlled Performance line PEERS: KEF Ci3160RL-THX; Speakercraft Profile AIM Cinema Five; DALI Phantom S-180 THERE IS NO denying that in-wall and in-ceiling speakers make … Read more
As the smallest streaming adapter here it may not look like much, but the MusicCast has got it where it counts. Read our Yamaha WX AD-10 Review. ContentsDETAILS: Yamaha WX AD-10 ReviewSound qualityCAST A SPELL DETAILS: Yamaha WX AD-10 Review PRODUCT Yamaha WXAD-10 ORIGIN Japan/Malaysia TYPE Network music player WEIGHT 226g DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 130 x … Read more
The ZX Series is Mission’s eagerly awaited flagship range. Ed Selley gets to grips with its smallest floorstander. Read our Mission ZX-3 Review. Ever since Mission released its LX range of speakers a few years ago, the brand has been undergoing a resurgence. Now part of the International Audio Group, it took a little while for … Read more
EdSelley listens to an eye-catching standmount loudspeaker with a hidden talent to help it dig a little deeper Extracting extended bass frequencies from compact loudspeaker cabinets is a balancing act that has challenged designers for decades. The laws of physics are a hard taskmaster and unless you push impedance and sensitivity into difficult to drive areas, … Read more
WHILE SOME DESIGNS fade into history, others leave a permanent mark. The striking yellow Kevlar drivers of Bowers & Wilkins’ 601 speakers mark them as an example of the latter, and now, two decades after they were launched, the 600 series has grown up, just as many 601 owners will have. Read our B&W 607 … Read more
Mark Craven reckons TCL’s C815K QLED proves the Chinese brand really means business in the UK. Read our TCL 65C815K Review. TCL finally seems to be attacking the UK TV market with gusto. Previously it has taken residence on the entry-level shelves, offering low-cost/low-spec models that are happy to compete on price and size. In … Read more
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The latest addition to Arcam’s new HDA range is the SA10 amplifier. Adam Smith finds out if it can score three goals in a row. Read our Arcam SA10 Review. Completing Arcam’s trinity of new HDA products, the SA10 is the entry-level amplifier and I can’t help but detect a frisson of concern as you read … Read more
The HW-N950 Dolby Atmos soundbar ups the feature spec from its K950 predecessor. Richard Stevenson is impressed. Read our SAMSUNG HW-N950 Review. We were huge fans of Samsung’s HW-K950 soundbar, launched in 2016. Leveraging the sonic expertise of a new audio R&D facility, it did Dolby Atmos in 7.1.4 and wowed our ears with every movie. Yet … Read more
Has LG’s smallest ever OLED TV arrived just at the right time? John Archer swaps his 4K Blu-ray player remote for his Xbox joypad. Read our LG OLED48CX Review. ContentsAv InfoMetro-sensualSPECIFICATIONSVerdict Av Info PRODUCT: 48in 4K OLED TV with Dolby Vision and HDMI 2.1 Position: The CX series sits in the middle of LG’s 2020 OLED range DEERS: Sony KD-48A9; Philips … Read more