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4 days ago |
hifiplus.com | Chris Frankland
Advance Paris is a well-established player in Europe, selling in more than 40 countries worldwide, but when I spotted it at the Bristol Hi-Fi Show earlier this year, it was still a new name to me. Established in 1995 in France as Advance Acoustic, it started with a range of five loudspeakers and only branched out into electronics once it launched its first integrated amplifier in 2004. The first product under the Advance Paris brand came along in 2013.
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1 month ago |
hifiplus.com | Chris Frankland
Although British hi-fi specialist AVID has been around since 1995, the Accent integrated amplifier is my first exposure to the brand. AVID started when CEO and founder Conrad Mas was 16 and was inspired “to produce a genuinely flawless turntable” on seeing a friend’s homemade design. Mas says he soon realised turntable manufacturers were concentrating on rumble, wow, and flutter and ignoring what he considers the true problem: vibration.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
hifiplus.com | Chris Frankland
Hi-fi products often emerge from a ‘Eureka!’ moment for their designer. For Richard Trussell of Network Acoustics, this happened with the original eno ethernet filter. A trained electronics engineer, he retired from the IT industry and started selling hi-fi from home. His ‘Eureka!’ moment came when he discovered that a better-quality ethernet cable could improve the sound. This piqued his curiosity to find out why. The Network Acoustics eno2 is the latest development from that ‘Eureka!’ moment.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
hifiplus.com | Chris Frankland
There aren’t many loudspeaker or hi-fi brands that can truthfully say they have become a household name, but Tannoy is one of them. Tannoy has a phenomenal heritage, typified by models like the Super Gold Monitor SGM10 tested here. These are a re-working of a classic design from the Sixties.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
hifiplus.com | Chris Frankland
Many are fascinated by the sonic charms of valve amplifiers, and I am among them. However, a single-ended valve amp pushing out 10 watts may not be up to the task of driving inefficient or ‘difficult’ loudspeakers—and certainly not at high levels in a large room. Enter the McIntosh Labs MA352, one of a growing breed of hybrid amplifiers. These amps attempt to offer the best of both worlds, often combining a valve preamplifier stage with a transistor power amp.
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