Leak Stereo 230 integrated  phono stage, Bluetooth and HDMI in vintage 70s style The British brand Leak has expanded its line of amplifiers and introduced the Stereo 230 integrated amplifier. The previous model, the Leak Stereo 130, together with the Leak CDT CD transport, was released in 2020. The novelty has retained the vintage a…

DALI Epikore 11 floorstanders: SMC Gen-2 to the max DALI engineers upgraded their Soft Magnetic Compound technology to the SMC Gen-2 version and equipped the Epikore 11 floorstanders with it. This model can be considered the “apogee of SMC”, although SMC Gen-2 was first used in the flagship DALI Kore systems last year. This propriet…

JLab Work Buds: TWS Earbuds with Detachable Mic JLab Work Buds Headphones Concept Model. The quality of conversations is achieved not by cunning directional beam technologies and signal cleaning algorithms, but simply and effectively - by a remote microphone on the boom. It connects to any of the headphones. According to JLab, this …

FiiO KA2 headphone DAC Amplifier The KA2 DAC and Amplifier completes FiiO's KA mini-portable series, with the KA1 and KA3 already available, with the "medium" sample approaching the older one, according to FiiO. A dongle is proposed to be used not only as a mobile device but also as a full-fledged Hi-Fi component. For …

Sony TA-AN1000 AV Amplifier - European Version The Sony TA-AN1000 AV amplifier has been announced for early summer in the UK and EU. For the US market, Sony introduced five new AV receivers back in February, and by the way, one of them, the STR-AN1000, is basically similar to the "European" Sony TA-AN1000. True, the TA-AN1…

Marten Mingus Septet will be shown at Munich High End 2023 Swedish audio engineer Marten believes that the Mingus Septet acoustics, approaching the Mingus Orchestra model in sound quality, can provide "listening pleasure in lounge mode." Like Mingus Orchestra, Mingus Septet is planning to present to the general public at t…

Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 wireless speaker: GamFratesi design and Mozart control The Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 portable wireless speaker is the brand's most powerful system in its class. Four speakers - a 5.25-inch woofer, two 2-inch midranges and a 3/4-inch tweeter, each work from a separate amplifier. The total power…

KEF LS50 Wireless II Review :  Few hi-fi speakers have received as much coverage in the last ten or twelve years as the KEF LS50 and the family of KEF wireless speakers derived from it. With the current second generation of the LS50 Wireless, KEF has reached a high level of maturity and an impressive sound level. Much has already be…

Q Acoustics 5000 series: C3 Continuous Curved Cone and other technologies from the Concept line The English company Q Acoustics has released a line of speakers 5000 , which in terms of its level was between the 3000i models and the older Concept series. The latter, by the way, borrows many of the Q Acoustics 5000 cabinet and driver …

Majority Bard and Quadriga audio systems: Bluetooth, Spotify Connect and Internet radio in a budget class The Cambridge (from the very heart of Britain) Majority brand released two desktop multifunctional audio systems at once - Bard and Quadriga . Both are equipped with Bluetooth 5.0 and Spotify Connect, as well as DAB, DAB+ and FM…