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It is easy to underestimate a speaker like Fyne Audio’s Vintage Classic X. They look like they have been time-warped from the 1970s, with a huge, wider-than-deep walnut-covered cabinet and lovely adju

Fyne Audio is enjoying, to borrow some classic football parlance, an enviable purple patch at the moment. From top to bottom, the Scotland-based hi-fi brand is producing some exceptional loudspeakers,

Monitor Audio’s Bronze speakers – especially their ‘2’ moniker standmounts – were our go-to recommendation for budget speakers for many years. The five-star Bronze BX2 (from 2010) and the Bronze 2 (fr

It’s easy to imagine that Neat’s Classic range of loudspeakers could have been named by Doctor Seuss, consisting as it does of the hugely entertaining Neat Petite standmounts, the Neat Mystique middle

Don’t judge it on appearances. The unassuming casework hides a phono-circuit design of considerable merit, and a sonic performance that rivals the best at this price. The Limetree Phono II is small, b

If you play records, no other electronic component in your system has as much impact on the sound as the humble phono stage. There aren’t many talented units around the £500 mark, so when we come acro