John Browning

As a home hi-fi specialist, John has worked on countless setups over the years, and has accrued a wealth of experience, insights and knowledge on the subject. His experience means that he can not only assist in the assessment of your current system, but will also come up with suggestions to boost your sound quality.

Leben CS300XS Review

When you hear “Made in Japan,” you immediately think of large corporate consumer electronics giants like Sony and Matsushita. Few people realize that, exactly because the Japanese home hi-fi market is so large, there’s opportunity for a thriving set of specialist manufacturers producing devices that are vastly different from your average Yamaha AV receiver… This

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KEF LS50 Review

The audio ability of a loudspeaker is inversely proportional to its aesthetic beauty, according to one of the universal principles of hi-fi. True, the Holy hi-fi provider has allowed an unique exception to this rule for a few high-end panel speakers, but other from that, it appears to apply to practically everything. So when I

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KEF Coda 7 Review

In 2014, this loudspeaker appears to be a very drab, uninteresting, and insignificant loudspeaker, but in 1995, it was hailed as the future of inexpensive hi-fi. Why? The Coda 7 was at the forefront of a new generation of speakers that drew a clear line between the ageing budget boxes of the 1980s and the

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JVC JAS-11G Review

Any audiophile will occasionally peruse the pages of a hi-fi magazine – if they aren’t reading them religiously every month, that is. Had you picked up a copy of What Hi-Fi in 1977, the chances are that by the time you’d finished it, you would know that this amplifier was the one to buy, under

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Jelco SA-750D Review

The Jelco Ichikawa Jewel Company, based in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro area, is one of the country’s many small-scale precision engineering firms. It has been producing since 1920, and by the 1970s, it had naturally shifted its focus to turntable parts in response to the hi-fi craze of the period. Over the years, it has done a

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JBE Series 3 Review

It’s all forgotten now, but there was once upon a time when a costly – but not exorbitantly priced – turntable appeared, battled the best of the best, and triumphed. That is, almost. The JBE, you see, was an underground sensation for a brief period around the turn of the 1980s. Despite its high quality,

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