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Woo Audio WA2 headphone amplifier review

Reviews The WA2 is geared towards full-sized hi-fi headphones with impedance values between 30-600 Ohms, and it'll handle frequencies between 8Hz-100kHz. Switching to even a £250 headphone amp will make a huge difference over the integrated headphone amps...

Editor's rating   9

Tags: woo audio, headphones, gear, handle

26 November 2008, 15:44 > More matches in Reviews

Vita Audio R4 review

Reviews Together they deliver 80W of power from a Class A-B amplifier, which was unusually developed in-house by Vita Audio, with the aim of delivering a more hi-fi-like sound experience. Vita Audio's R4 is a high-end CD/DAB system aimed at the bedrooms of...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: vita audio, fans, class, stereo

30 October 2008, 15:15 > More matches in Reviews

LG FA163DAB review

Reviews This content is pumped through the aforementioned speakers, each delivering 80W of power and each tweaked by high-end hi-fi maker Mark Levinson. and with it comes DAB radio and iPod docking functionality.

Editor's rating   6.5

Tags: lg electronics, wma, cds, listening

23 October 2008, 14:56 > More matches in Reviews

Sonos BU150 Music System review

Reviews ZP90: The amp-less ZonePlayer for your existing hi-fi You can stream to up to 32 rooms, with any combination of ZP90s or ZP120s, depending on how many existing hi-fi setups you have in your mansion. One drawback of the basic BU150 bundle is that...

Editor's rating   9.6

Tags: sonos, streaming, playlists, windows media player

22 October 2008, 16:17 > More matches in Reviews

Sony Vaio TT: Ultraportable laptop in 'not a car' shocker

Crave The entry-level models all have 11-inch 1,366x768-pixel backlit LED screens, 1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U9300 CPUs, 2GB of DDR3 800MHz RAM, 160GB hard drives, GMA 4500MHD graphics, Wireless N Wi-Fi and built-in DVD rewriter drives.

Tags: core, model, ram, high end

13 October 2008, 10:23 > More matches in Crave

Sony Giga Juke NAS-SC55 review

Reviews Sony's Giga Juke NAS-SC55 is a multi-room wireless music system comprising two products: the main NAS-S55HDE hi-fi and the smaller NAS-C5E wireless speaker system. It's a shame, because when we hooked up our hi-fi reference speakers (a pair of...

Editor's rating   7.9

Tags: sony, playlist, wi fi, pair

2 October 2008, 15:15 > More matches in Reviews

Philips MCI-500H review

Reviews If the idea of having your entire CD collection stored inside a hi-fi, being able to beam it all over your house and being able to stream music from your PC wirelessly sounds appealing, you're looking at the right music system.

Editor's rating   7.6

Tags: philips, stream, speaker, streaming

19 September 2008, 13:47 > More matches in Reviews

Logitech Squeezebox Boom review

Reviews There's no doubt that audiophiles with a decent hi-fi in their living room would be far better buying the speaker-less Squeezebox Duet, but for kitchens, bedrooms and smaller living rooms of non-audiophiles, it's well-suited.

Editor's rating   9.4

Tags: logitech, wi fi, streaming, speakers

17 September 2008, 15:45 > More matches in Reviews

Expert audio quality test: 5th gen iPod vs. iPod classic

Crave The older models used different audio processing chips, from Wolfsson (which, incidentally, provides chips to numerous high-end hi-fi audio manufacturers, including Arcam). The differences are only very subtle through bleeding-edge gear, so should...

Tags: apple, edge, listening, models

17 September 2008, 12:25 > More matches in Crave

Arcam Solo Mini review

Reviews The general audiophile consensus is that iPods killed the world's love for hi-fi, and that for every pitiful 128Kbps iTunes download sold, Apple kills a kitten. Now, with the launch of its Solo Mini, it hopes to bring iPod and rDock together with...

Editor's rating   9.3

Tags: arcam, cd dvd, mini, chip

12 September 2008, 16:07 > More matches in Reviews

Passionato: Classical music downloads done right

Crave While iTunes boasts a decent helping of classical music, the DRM and low bit-rate encoding of its music files meant that moving those downloads to your hi-fi has not been an attractive option. If you're a classical music connoisseur, chances are...

Tags: itunes, stores, titles, encoded

12 September 2008, 10:23 > More matches in Crave

Photos: Exclusive ears-on with Denon AH-D7000 headphones

Crave They're at-home hi-fi headphones, requiring a decent hi-fi amplifier or headphone amp. If you're familiar with Denon's outstanding AH-D5000 headphones, and wondered how on Earth they could be bettered, we've got some news for you.

5 September 2008, 11:27 > More matches in Crave

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Hands-on with the Philips MCM770 hi-fi: Baby of the bunch

Crave Its cute, traditional aluminium hi-fi design sits between a pair of solid wooden speaker enclosures, housing a two-way drive system. Sat playing with rattles and train sets in the corner is the baby of the new hi-fis in Philips' Heritage series of...

28 August 2008, 15:18 > More matches in Crave

Photos: Sony launches new S-series Walkman at IFA

Crave Completely new is something similar to a feature in Sony's original Giga Juke hi-fi. Well, there are a few things we were hoping Sony would deliver in its Walkman range at IFA: 32GB capacities, FLAC and OGG support, Wi-Fi syncing and integrated...

Tags: sony, fi, mood, walkman

28 August 2008, 15:00 > More matches in Crave