The Aurora was the company’s first turntable, and it cost little under £1,000 when it was released in 2014. It’s a high-quality skeletal belt drive design hewn from black acrylic with a low-resonance platter, just like the original from 2003. It lacks traditional sprung suspension and must be placed on a well-isolated table or wall […]
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Who would have guessed? Oppo Digital Inc., a California-based spin-off of an obscure Chinese optical disc player firm, launches a high-end hi-fi product line. It’s not your normal hi-fi success story, but with each new product launch, the tale becomes more credible. The business now has its own matching DAC/preamp/headphone amp – in the very
Etsuro Nakamichi, a tape magnetics research engineer, created the Nakamichi Corporation in Japan in 1948. In 1951, he began creating open reel decks for other hi-fi businesses to put their own badges on, as he was captivated by tape. It was a difficult business to be in, needing tight tolerances and precise alignment, as well
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It’s been a long time since Naim Audio Ltd. initially opened its doors in a Wiltshire backstreet in 1973, and since then, the company has grown in popularity and reputation. Julian Vereker, the firm’s founder, once stated that he started the company to manufacture hi-fi equipment that he and his friends would enjoy listening to.
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Some may dismiss this as merely another of the many power amplifiers made by the Salisbury solid-state specialists over the years, but I believe it has something unique to offer in the grand scheme of things. Naim Audio rose to prominence with the NAC 32 and NAP 250, despite not being the company’s first preamp/power
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When Naim Audio released its first standalone digital-to-analogue converter towards the end of the first decade of the new century, it raised some eyebrows. The company stated that it wouldn’t be worthwhile to do one until it could provide something technically novel, which it did. The £1,995 Naim DAC was created with jitter in mind
When the 3155 was introduced in January 1985, NAD touted it as “two products in one.” “As a preamplifier, it rivals the sound characteristics of most discrete audiophile preamps while outperforming them in terms of operating versatility.” It pushes even problematic loudspeakers to shockingly high volume levels with clean, substantial, full-bodied musical sound that is
The M1 CLiC, which cost £1,239 when it was released in 2011, was an exceedingly amazing piece of equipment at the time. It was described at the time as a preamplifier, DAC, and network music player all in one, and it seemed incredibly adaptable. When you paired it with the matching £599 M1 CDT transport,
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The tale of the Musical Fidelity A1 design is already well-known. Tim de Paravicini accepts the challenge. “I strive to be innovative, and if I can avoid it, I don’t duplicate anybody,” he explained. “It all started with a circuit on a breadboard that I created with low feedback and that acted like a valve
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Monitor Audio’s Radius 90, which retails for £350, is one of my favorite super-small speakers. It’s only 198x125x140mm in size, weighs 2.1kg, and has only 1.5 liters of usable space within. It was available in real wood veneer, piano lacquer white or black at the time of its launch — silver was no longer an
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