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Golden Ear Awards 2015: Robert Harley
|Magico Q7 Mk II$229,000 Magico has taken the Q7, a speaker I’ve long considered to be the state of the art and, surprisingly, made it significantly better. The Q7 Mk II benefits from an entirely ...read more -
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2015 Editors’ Choice: Power Amps $10,000 - $20,000
|Constellation Inspiration Stereo 1.0$10,000 The 200Wpc Inspiration Stereo 1.0 brings the same circuit design and some parts from Constellation’s $140k Hercules monoblocks to a more accessible price point. Constellation has done an amazing job of ...read more -
2014 Product of the Year Awards: Solid-State Power Amps
|Affordable Rotel RB-1552 Mk II Power Amplifier$999 The RB-1552 Mk II is a handsome, purposeful 120Wpc Class AB stereo power amplifier that bristles with the holistic design and careful parts selection that have distinguished Rotel’s ...read more -
Constellation Audio Inspiration Series Preamp 1.0 Linestage, Stereo 1.0 Stereo Amplifier, and Mono 1.0 Monoblock Amplifiers
|I get more reader letters complaining about the prices of some of the products we review than on any other topic. Six-figure amplifiers are bound to offend many sensibilities. But I’m about to demonstrate how ...read more