McIntosh MA2275 Integrated Tube Amplifier

The MA2275 Integrated Tube Amplifier relies exclusively on vacuum tubes in all audio circuits. This design combines classic vacuum tube audio performance with state of the art control…

Coincident Speaker Tech Dynamo 34SE Tube Headphone and Loudspeaker Amplifier

Likely one of the best kept secrets in all of audio: Coincident amplifiers. This is the Dynamo mk1 8 watt/chan EL34 with upgrade to JJ Tubes. I use…

Picture Frame Speaker Systems

The F1 Speaker by Concrete Audio are made from concrete or wood and look more like art mounted on a wall than a speaker system. The speakers are…

iHome Bedside Stereo Speaker System for Amazon Echo Dot review:

The Good iHome’s attractive dock for the Amazon Echo Dot offers improved sound quality, two USB charging ports and a clock face, all of which make the Echo…

Ace of Bass: Bowers & Wilkins Sound System @ Primavera

Watching your favourite DJ at a festival can be frustrating experience. Packed into the middle of a tent, a combination of bad acoustics and a PA designed to…

Apple Announces New Siri-Based Speaker System HomePod

The HomePod will go on sale later this year and costs $349. This year it gave us the HomePod, a $350 scratching post – sorry, a speaker with…

5 Most Reliable PA Speakers With The Longest Warranty

If you’re in a travelling musical group, whether a duo or full band, run your own venue or bar with live music or look after the sound in…

WORMHOLE’S WORLD: Lapping up orbs of audio cream

LAST week I was pleased as punch to receive (not personally) an update from our favourite out-of-retirement front man – Mr James Jeremiah Murphy – the new LCD…

Yamaha YAS-207 World’s First Soundbar with DTS Virtual:X

As in years past, some of the announcements and tech demos at CES in January are becoming available as consumer products in June or July. Case in point:…

Stereo Tube Amplifier Kit

Vacuum tube based amplifiers have been making a significant comeback over the past 10 years or so, they were ubiquitous before the invention of the transistor – which…