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AUDIO FEATURES
The Greatest   (KK) 50/1
Radio Days: Part 2   (AMc) 82/1
Get Down to Earth   (BD) 80/2
Satellite Radio News   (RW) 59/3
Golden Turkeys   (KK) 78/4
Julian Vereker MBE Tribute   (KK/PMs/MC) 75/4
Lossy Compression Part I   (KH) 74/5
Lossy Compression Part II   (KH) 68/6
Mega Bass Meets Mega Bucks   (DC) 74/6
Satellite Radio   (RW) 79/6
How much power?   (KH) 70/7
SACD   (JK) 81/7
Trifield: A missed opportunity?   (KH) 68/8
Home Deck   (PC) 75/8
Satellite Radio   (RW) 77/8
The how and why of Supertweeters   (KH) 58/9
Interview with Mark Levinson   (KK) 64/10
AAC: Life Beyond MP3   (KH) 68/10
British Audio Awards 2001   15/11
Loudspeaker phase I: Can we hear speaker phase?   (KH) 78/11
Loudspeaker phase II: Yes, we can hear loudspeaker phase   (KH) 78/12
 
INTERVIEWS
Cable Lowdown: William E Low   (SH) 60/12
The voice of dissent: Peter Qvortrup   (SH) 60/11
 
SYSTEM SETUP
The Art of Good Sound   (SH) 60/10
West End high-end - Marcus Margulies   (KK) 56/11
Bedroom Suite   (DH) 56/12
 
SHOW REPORTS
The Hi-Fi News Show 1999   70/1
Dublin   (SH) 79/2
Zagreb and Budapest   (MR) 82/2
Warsaw and Ljubjana   (AH/MR) 82/3
Las Vegas CES: Part 1   (KK) 52/4
Las Vegas CES: Part 2   (KK) 64/5
Frankfurt High-End Show   (KK) 66/9
The Hi-Fi News Show 2000 highlights   (KK) 16/12
 
AMPLIFIERS
Arcam FMJ five-channel (AG) 55/5
Arcam Alpha 10 DAVE (AH) 70/2
Audio Refinement Complete amp (AG) 60/1
Audio Refinement Complete integrated (AG) 60/2
Audio Research Reference Two (MC) 24/3
Balanced Audio Technology VK-50SE/VK-60 pre-/power amp (AG) 49/7
Bryston BP25/4B-ST (DB) 44/6
Chord Electronics SPM12000 power amp (AH) 38/12
Canary CA300 monoblock amplifier (SH) 48/8
Conrad-Johnson Premier 17 pre-amp (MC) 26/9
Creek Audio P43R pre-amp/A52SE power amp (TB) 48/5
Croft Vitale pre-amp (KK) 42/2
Cyrus Electronics aCA7 pre-amp (MC) 52/2
Cyrus 7 integrated amplifier (TB) 51/6
Densen Beat 200/300 (DB) 38/8
Electrocompaniet EC1-3 (MC) 44/3
EAR 864 pre-amplifier (KK) 30/1
Fase Nimis Naif (KK) 38/2
Krell Industries KAV-150a power amp/KAV-250p pre-amp (AG) 24/5
Linn Kolektor/LK140 (AH) 28/11
McCormack pre-/power amp (AG) 50/10
McIntosh MC2000 power amp (KK) 28/6
Meracus Intrare (DB) 54/3
Musical Fidelity A300 integrated amp (IH) 50/3
Musical Fidelity A3 pre-/power amp (DB) 36/6
Musical Fidelity HT600 (KK) 50/9
Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista M3 (KK) 24/12
Musical Fidelity X-A2 amplifier (DB) 37/10
Musical Fidelity X-P100/X-S100 (AH) 28/11
Myryad MP100/MA240 amplifier (MC) 36/4 & (AH) 28/11
NAD C160/218 THX (AH) 28/11
Naim Audio NAP 500 (MC) 26/8
Nightingale Armonia amp (KK) 47/10
Parasound HCA-3500 (AG) 28/7
Parasound HCA-2205 amplifier (AG) 68/2
Pass Labs Aleph P pre-/350 power amplifier (AG) 49/2
Pioneer multichannel amplifier (MC) 68/3
Primare A10 amplifier (TB) 28/12
Pro-Ject Phono Box pre-amplifier (TB) 40/7
Quad II-forty mono power/QC-twenty-four pre-amp (KK) 36/11
Samuel Johnson Audio pre-/power amp (IH) 22/4
Sharp SM-X100 digital amp (MC) 51/11
Sugden Masterclass (KK)37/3
TAG McLaren Audio DPA32R pre-amp (MC) 33/10
Theta Digital Dreadnaught (KK) 64/3
Trilogy integrated valve amp (KK) 40/10
Talk Electronics Hurricane 2.1/Tornado 2.1 (AH) 28/11
Technics SU-C1010/SE-A1010 (AH) 28/11
Unison Research SR1 (KK) 34/7
Viking pre-amplifier (MC) 41/1
 
LOUDSPEAKERS
Acoustic Energy AE120 (AG) 25/10
Acoustic Research Phantom (DB) 60/8
Acoustic Research Status S20 (TB) 49/4
ALR Jordan Note 3 (AG) 53/3
Audio Physic Libra (MC) 45/2
Audio Research Reference Phono (MC) 30/6
AvantGarde Uno (SH) 22/5
AVI Gravitron (AG) 34/3
Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 1 (MC) 20/10
Blue Room Minipod (AH) 39/7
B&W 601 S2 (AG) 59/2
B&W ASW 4000 subwoofer (MC) 66/6
BKS Hybrid 107 Mk II (AG) 55/6
Castle Acoustics Inversion 50i (AG) 25/10
Castle Acoustics Richmond (AG/AH) 59/6
Castle Acoustics Severn 2SE (TB) 53/8
Celestion C Series (C6s/C5R/C2/C4c) (DB) 67/7
Definitive Technology BP3000 TL (AG) 72/2
Dynaudio Contour T2.5 (KK) 46/8
Elac CL82 Mk II (AG) 36/12
Elac 310i JET (AG) 49/3
Final 0.3 (IH) 43/7
Genelec HT208 active monitors (AH) 29/12
Heil Aulos Speakers/Ergo headphones (AG) 48/6
Heybrook HB4 2000 (AG) 25/10
JMlab Mezzo Utopia (AG) 31/9
KEF Concerto One (IH) 41/3
KEF Cresta 2c (TB) 33/12
KEF Reference Four-Two (IH) 42/11
KEF Q65.2 (AG) 25/10
Martin Logan Prodigy (MC) 42/8
Mirage MRM-1/BPS150I subwoofer (AG) 40/4
Mirage OM-7 (IH) 50/8
Mission 782 (AG) 46/1
Mission fs-2 NXT (AG) 46/11
Naim Audio NBL (MC) 24/11
Orchid LWO Deep Resolution (KK) 35/12
Opera Mini (AH) 45/9
PMC FB1 Monitor (DB) 52/7
Quad ESL-989 (KK & DB) 24/7
Ruark Acoustics Prologue (AG) 25/10
REL Strata III subwoofer (KK) 69/4
REL Storm (MC) 75/2
REL Q200E (MC) 75/2
Spendor S3/5 (KK) 38/5 & (MC) 51/12
Tannoy Revolution R3 (AG) 25/10
Tannoy ST-200 supertweeter (AG) 55/10
Wilson Audio Maxx (MC & SH) 26/2
Wilson Audio System 6 (MC) 26/4
 
CD PLAYERS
Advantage CD-1S (IH) 50/5
Arcam FMJ CD23 (AG) 33/5 & (AG/AH) 42/12
Audio Refinement Complete (AG) 60/2
Cyrus dAD Q24 (AH) 38/1
Cyrus CD7 (AG/AH) 42/12
Krell KAV-250 CD (AG) 24/5
Marantz CD-17 Mk II (AG/AH) 42/12
Musical Fidelity A3CD (AH) 41/2
Naim Audio CD 5 (AG/AH) 42/12
Rotel RCD-991 (AG/AH) 42/12
Sony SCD-777ES SACD (DB) 28/5
Sony SCD-XB940 (AG) 36/8
T+A Elektroakustik CD1220R (MC) 40/6
T+A Elektroakustik CD1210R (AG/AH) 42/12
Wadia Digital 860x (AH) 32/8
 
CD RECORDERS
Denon CDR-1000 (AH) 43/10
Marantz DR6000 (AH) 43/10
Philips CDR775 (AH) 37/9
Philips CD-R951 (AH) 43/10
Pioneer PD-R509 (MC) 34/5
 
CD TRANSPORTS AND D/A CONVERTERS
Assemblage DAC-2.5 (CM) 57/2
Audio Note DAC5 converter (MC) 33/2
Chord Electronics DSC 1500E (MC) 24/1
dCS Delius (KK) 34/4
North Star Design StarDAC (AH) 21/1
Samuel Johnson pdc 100 DAC (IH) 34/9
Wadia Digital 270 transport/ 27ix DAC (AG) 32/1
 
TURNTABLES
Dual CS455-1 (AH) 53/10
Pro-Ject Debut (TB) 40/7
VPI Aries (AH) 24/6
 
CARTRIDGES
Clearaudio Victory (AH) 43/3
Clearaudio Virtuoso (TB) 46/7
van den Hul Black Beauty SP-X (MC) 36/7
Grado Platinum Signature (TB) 46/7
 
PHONO STAGES
Audio Research Reference Phono (MC) 30/6
Cyrus Electronics aEQ7 phono amp (MC) 52/2 & (AH) 42/4
Lehmann Audio Black Cube (AH) 42/4
Michell Engineering Delphini (AH) 42/4 & 40/9
Musical Fidelity X-LP2 (AH) 42/4
Paul Hynes Design VV1 and VH1 (AH) 42/4
Sphinx Phono Equiliser (AH) 42/4
 
SYSTEMS
Audio Note Zero System (AH) 34/6
Myryad Cameo System (AH) 31/12
 
MINIDISC
Sony MDS-JB555 (TB) 36/1
Sony MZ-R55 portable (MC) 49/1
Sony MDS-JE640 (IH) 26/12
 
MP3 PLAYERS
Aiwa MM-VX100 MP3 player (AG) 59/6
Diamond Rio 500 (AH) 28/3
HanGo Jukebox (AH) 33/4
GMT J-Box software (AH) 57/10
Maycom Merit (AH) 28/3
Philex MPress 3 (AH) 28/3
Pine D'music (AH) 28/3
Pontis MPlayer 3 (AH) 28/3
MusicMatch Jukebox Deluxe software (AH) 57/10
Thomson Lyra (AH) 28/3
 
TUNERS
Sony STD-777ES (AG) 38/9
TAG McLaren Audio T32R w/digital tuner (AH) 31/7
Technics ST-GT1000 (AMc) 40/5 & (AG) 38/9
 
DVD PLAYERS
Denon DVD 2500 (AG) 63/7
JVC XV-723GD (SH) 49/10
Kenwood DVF-9010 (AG) 63/7
NAD T-550 (AG) 63/7
Nakamichi DVD 10S player (KK) 65/6
Philips DVD750 (AG) 63/7
Pioneer DV-525 (AG) 63/7
Pioneer DV717 (AG) 63/7
Sony DVP-S725 (AG) 63/7
Sony DVP-S7700 (AG) 63/7
Theta Digital Carmen (KK) 54/9
Technics DVD-A10 (MC) 57/7 & (AG) 41/11
Toshiba SD-9000 (AG) 63/7
Wharfedale Tesco DVD player (KK) 59/5
Yamaha DVD-S795 (AG) 63/7
 
A/V PROCESSORS/AMPS
Dynavector Superstereo Adp-2 (IH) 71/4
Roksan audio DSP processor (KK) 57/8
 
MUSIC FEATURE
Matthias Bamert   (JT) 91/1
G¸her & S¸her Pekinel   (JT) 87/2
Maria Kliegel   (JT) 89/2
Louis Lortie   (BN) 85/4
Rued Langgaard   (CM) 85/5
 
CABLES
Accessories Club Earth Henry (BD) 80/2
van den Hul Royal Jade/CS122 Hybrid/D352 Hybrid (MC) 44/1
Kimber Powerkord (TB) 57/6
Sonik Link S-Gold (TB) 57/6
Straight Wire Symphony II/Rhapsody II/Harmony (TB) 21/2
True Colours Industries mains cable (TB) 57/6
 
MISCELLANEOUS
BIAS Peak software (AH) 44/5
Cetech Platform (AH) 21/1
Clearaudio Exact Stylus Gauge (AH) 21/2
Crystal Cloud platform (TB) 48/11
Digigram VXpocket PC Card (AH) 44/5
Harman Kardon TC1000 remote control (AG) 57/3
Moth RCM Mk II cleaning machine (AH) 48/11
Nagra SNST-R tape recorder (KK) 45/11
Nakamichi DR8 cassette deck (TB) 21/2
Pagode equipment stands (MC) 43/9
SOTA record cleaner machine (AH) 57/3
 
 
The Authors
DB David Berriman IH Ivor Humphreys
TB Tony Bolton JK Jonathan Kettle
DC Dave Clapp KK Ken Kessler
MC Martin Colloms AMc Angus McKenzie
PC Peter Comeau PMs Paul Messenger
BD Ben Duncan PM Paul Miller
AG Alvin Gold BN Bill Newman
SH Steve Harris MR Martin Reed
AH Andrew Harrison PS Peter Stillwell
DH Dan Houston JT Joanne Talbot
KH Keith Howard Back to the top>>

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