T+A’s flagship stereo power amplifier sat at the top of the Herford company’s HV series for over a decade before its maker ...

This is the fourth in a series of four – maybe five – CD player reviews for 2026. One answer is that it’s made in Japan, not China. Another is that Marantz builds its own optical disc mechanism there, ...

I took a few days away from hi-fi reviews last week. Naturally, my mind drifted back to hi-fi reviews. Ha. Not to any review in particular. Something altogether more meta: the question of what makes ...

Half-speed mastering cuts the lacquer at 16⅔ RPM instead of 33⅓ RPM. This gives the cutting stylus double the time to accurately carve any intricate high frequencies and transients into the groove. As ...