Audiolab’s 6000A is a popular sub-€1000 amplifier — and for good reason. It combines 50wpc into 8 Ohms with a ...

Dynaudio’s Confidence 20 is the Danish company’s flagship standmount loudspeaker. It’s a 2-way design that marries a 2.8cm Esotar3 soft dome tweeter to an 18cm NeoTec MSP mid/bass driver using a ...

📺 https://darko.audio/2021/11/american-made-audio-research-i-50/ American Made #2: AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt 📺 https://darko.audio/2022/01/american-made ...

Local company Vicoustic has treated the room for reverb issues… twice. The first installation in January 2023 reduced the ...

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Down the pike from Schiit Audio comes the Stjarna phono pre-amplifier. According to the now mostly Texan manufacturer, Stjarna is “an all-out, limited-production all-tube design”.  We might see it as ...

The Vibelink Amp delivers optimal clarity, and unlike many powered amplifiers, its digital optical and coaxial inputs also ...

Whilst we can conclude that the rug does something for reverb at 1.2kHz, that something is negligible. Similarly, this side-by-side shows how the rug worsens the reverb time ever-so-slightly at 400Hz.

Laurence Dickie is (perhaps) best known for co-designing the Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus in the early 90s. Nowadays, Dickie heads up engineering at Vivid Audio where – from his Brighton base – he ...