Volume 3 No. 2     April — June 2009

 

Reviewed In This Issue
This Issue's Editorial (click here)

THE AKTIMATE MINI (complete review here)
An interesting budget amp/speaker combo from the Creek/Epos team

STAN'S SAFARI 7
Stan Curtis provides some tantalising glimpses into the early years of CD player and filter development

MILIND KUNCHUR
George Foster uncovers some fascinating research that explains why what we hear has more to do with our brains than the condition of our ears

10 HI-FI MYTHS: PART 5
PMC's Peter Thomas describes how stereo sound experiments actually began in the 1880s

DIGITAL ACTIVITY
The combination of active drive and digital signal processing gives Meridian's DSP 7200 speaker some remarkable properties. Martin Colloms explains

COMPUTER HI-FI FOR DUMMIES
The very computer literate Malcolm Steward pre-empts questions about hi-fi and computers

ONE SYSTEM; MANY ROOMS
Moving house and hi-fi system many times has given David Topliss a rare insight into the role of the listening room and the importance of careful set-up

BLADERUNNER
Paul Messenger describes KEF's exciting new ‘advanced technology demonstrator' Project Blade

THE GENTLE GIANT
Martin Colloms gets to grips with the Wilson Audio MAXX Series 3

SIX DACS
Computer audio has made DACs fashionable again. Chris Bryant checks out half a dozen

FOUR INTEGRATED AMPS
Chris Bryant probes deep into the performance of amplifiers from Arcam, Creek, PS Audio and Sugden

MAINS MATTERS
Martin Colloms tries some PS Audio's mains accessories

THE BEST OF CLASSICAL
Colin Anderson's latest classical picks

ROCK, POP AND OTHER NICE MUSIC
Nigel Finn's regular trawl through the new releases

INDEX
A belated guide to finding your way round Vol 2

SUBJECTIVE SOUNDS
Mains accessories including the sublimely ridiculous

 

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