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Jum.Pan Jack Flash

Home-grown products can offer a refreshing change from the norm.

Home-grown products can offer a refreshing change from the norm.

Magical: There’s no getting away from that lovely tube sound on the Pan Labs Jum. Pan 1 preamp.View more

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Golden Telos

Telos Audio Design, part of a Taiwanese audio manufacturing group, offers an extremely fetching range of hi-fi accessories, like speaker cables, interconnects, power cords and caps for XLR and RCA outputs, in its Golden Reference and Silver Reference lines.

‘3’ for Marantz

New Marantz offerings come around regularly and this time, as expected, the older range is being replaced by sharper-looking products.

Shanling stories

Tubes and CD players – an odd combination of analogue and digital, eh? Still, tubes are increasingly being seen inside and atop CD players, and there’s no denying they help take the rough edges off those bits and bytes.

Hassle-free surround

Surround sound without the associated baggage, this is the promise of Klipsch’s new CS-500 and CS-700 2.1 Virtual Surround Sound systems.

Brass from Boston

And now, for something different, we give you Boston Brass, a quintet that has entertained with humour and exquisite musicianship across the world.

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Reinforcing hi-fi credentials

Don’t believe hi-fi is making a comeback? Talk to Yamaha ...

Tips 'n' Tricks

The sound room11/2/2008

Tuning your listening room’s acoustic is a worthwhile effort.

Running-in tuning4/2/2008

Running-in new speakers or amplifiers also means wear on your source component ... here's how to avoid some of it.

Compression companion1/9/2005

And now, a million ways to get to those MP3s. Well, maybe not quite, but here are a few options on how to get your music closer to your heart …

Moving advice18/8/2005

Thinking of taking the jump into the cool world of ICE? Here are some things to bear in mind …

Recording viewpoints11/8/2005

The format war continues and here are some of the contenders …

Entertainment, PC-style4/8/2005

HERE’S some AV-related software that your computer simply can’t do without.

Better video28/7/2005

Here's how to optimise your TV for DVD playback.

Portable thoughts21/7/2005

Looking for a portable audio player? Here are a few pointers…

CD tweaks14/7/2005

Want to get more from your CD player? Here are a few tips ….

Gold Cuts

The format fiesta2/2/2006

Just as one format battle eases up, another one commences ... our intrepid traveller gets clued in on what’s hot and what’s out at the CES in Las Vegas.

AV accommodates the iPod12/1/2006

These pesky iPods, they're hooking up with everyone and everything, including our AV amps, so says ALVIN GOLD. Surrender is the only option, it seems.