Tests & reviews

Sumiko joins Criterion Audio’s portfolio We are pleased to announce that Criterion Audio is now an official Sumiko stockist. For 40 years, Sumiko have provided the finest array of phono pick-up cartridges to discerning audio enthusiasts around the world. Boasting...

Many customers with medium sized rooms are unsure if they should be considering compact loudspeakers on stands or floor-standers. Floor-standers typically offer more bass weight, improved dynamics and scale where compacts can offer improved bass texture and definition, along with improved clarity and imaging. 

A comparison – Linn Selekt DSM vs Linn Selekt Edition We recently had the pleasure of comparing different Linn streamers, including a standard Selekt DSM. Click here to view the Classik Selekt DSM product page In addition to the Selekt...

Read our comparison of four popular, mid-priced streaming pre-amplifiers.

We’ve undertaken countless LP12 upgrades over the years, and as a result of recent work involving Keel & Kore sub-chassis’, Karousel bearings and Lingo 4/Radikal power supplies we found ourselves with the pick of a number of desirable traded-in parts...

Auralic's Vega S1 makes a very neat and simple solution with a pair of active speakers, or with a suitable stereo amplifier and passive speakers. Read here how it compares to others in their range.

Can upsampling an audio file make a worthwhile improvement or is it hogwash? Using an AURALiC Sirius G2.1, we attempted to find out....

Now that we’ve had the New Classic 200 and 300 components from Naim in store for a while, we thought it would be useful to compare all iterations from both series to see what improvements can be had as you move up the range.

The new G5 Guarneri from Sonus faber and their predecessor, the Guarneri Tradition, are both utterly gorgeous, but given six years have passed since the release of the Tradition in 2017 and the fact that the visible differences between old and new are pretty small, we wondered how they'd compare sonically. 

We had two almost identical demonstrations recently, with both sets of customers looking to upgrade their amplifiers for use primarily with vinyl. The same four models were under consideration due largely to the inclusion of onboard phono stages – the...