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What Hi-Fi? is no stranger to Cyrus Audio’s phono stages. We have been using the company’s terrific Phono Signature in our reference system for almost a decade, thanks to its excellent sound quality a

Pathos’s Inpol Remix MkII is an easy amplifier to underestimate. It’s about the size of a child’s shoebox and has a modest claimed power output of just 25W per channel into 8 ohms. That’s the kind of

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,

Aphono stage such as this Graham Slee offering amplifies the output of a typical moving-magnet cartridge (around 4-5mV, 1kHz/5cm/s) by more than 100 times. A typical moving-coil signal (0.3-0.5mV, 1kH

Paul Howse has produced disappointingly few paintings in recent months, but we’ll forgive him – the car-designer-slash-watercolourist has been busy working with Lanzante to create the new 95-59, a lim