Teac Reference PD-H600$799teac.com Sitting atop Teac’s Reference Series, the PD-H600 borrows premium touches from the company’s superb Esoteric brand. “Open,” and “easy” are words that describe this gem, which is immediately engaging, surprisingly transparent, and ...

Perhaps it was serendipity, perhaps inevitability, that led me to play The Modern Jazz Quartet’s The Last Concert. “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise” unfolds kaleidoscopically, somehow by turns psychedelic, funky, dapper, bluesy, and sly. ...

As a product category integrated amplifiers make a lot of sense. Digital components such as CD players and stand-alone DACs already output a nominal 2V while power amp sensitivity is typically 1V or better. Given ...

AudioQuest DragonFly$249audioquest.com How can you not absolutely love an asynchronous USB DAC packed with audiophilegrade design elements in the form factor of a USB stick that costs $249? The variable output level allows you to ...

Alan Shaw’s Harbeth Monitor 30.1, which has been released in time to celebrate the company’s thirty- fifth anniversary as a manufacturer of high-quality loudspeakers, is the best compact two-way speaker system I have ever heard, ...

The 32-year-old Canadian firm Simaudio is one of those few companies with a decades-long track record of marketing nothing but great-sounding and beautifully made products at competitive prices. Although Simaudio isn't an entry-level brand by ...

Not many high-end audio marques have survived to observe their 50th anniversary. Bryston, a Canadian company with product lines in both the professional and consumer markets, celebrated fifty years of existence in 2012. With an ...

Kuzma Stabi S$2075eliteavdist.com The Stabi S is Kuzma’s least expensive turntable, but you wouldn’t know it to listen to the thing. Blessed with deep background silences, the Stabi S makes a great complement to the ...

“A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the Malamute Saloon.” All of the claims of huge breakthroughs over the years do bring to mind this opening line of Robert Service’s famous poem. ...

In recent years Oppo Digital has followed a simple recipe for success: Just build universal disc players that offer greater versatility, more audiophile-friendly features, and more sensible pricing than the competition does, and then give ...

ExaSound Audio Design is a Canadian company that designs and domestically manufactures two DACs: an e18 multichannel model and the recently released $2499 two- channel e20, the subject of this review. So just what distinguishes ...

PrimaLuna ProLogue 5$1259primaluna-usa.com The 36Wpc vacuum-tubepowered ProLogue 5 is more authoritative than its rating would lead you to expect, and offers a warm, rich presentation, yet really does not sound “tubey” in any traditional sense, ...

Hard though it is to believe, it is now twenty years since the first units for the digital correction of speakers in rooms began to appear. I recall that when I first wrote about the ...

Reviewers constantly see gear come and go, but, as you can imagine, we regret the parting of some pieces more than others. Roughly two years ago Esoteric had to pry its K-03 player from my ...

Z-Infinity Audio was founded in 2001 by Zsolt Mathe with the goal of offering perfectionist tube gear that is designed, tested, and hand-assembled in the U.S. Zsolt, who is of Hungarian descent, has designed audio ...