Unveiled soundlessly at the Vienna High End show, the ARTA is set to become the new flagship model from Romanian manufacturer Meze, surpassing both the Empyrean II and the Elite Tungsten. Its main innovation is a brand-new, high-impedance planar-magnetic transducer...
A naturally evolved version of the N1—which debuted in 2025 on the new Compass turntable—the Clearaudio N2 retains the same design in a 3D-printed upper chassis made of carbon-fiber-reinforced composite (PETG-CF). Featuring a laser-engraved black finish, the N2 weighs...
Founded in 2022 by engineer Audrius Balčiūnas, Silent Pound is now based in Kaunas, Lithuania, and continues to collaborate regularly with Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). The company currently offers two speaker models. Challenger II The Challenger II was...
Ten years after releasing its first tube integrated amplifier, McIntosh is back with the MA2375. Directly inspired by the iconic MC275 power amplifier, the MA2375 features the same KT88 tube push-pull circuit and four 12AT7 driver tubes and also delivers 75 watts per...
A recent addition to the Asterion V2 (7 200 €) lineup, the Asterion V3 allows Slovak manufacturer Canor to offer a more affordable phono preamplifier—though it still features vacuum tubes. Designed to handle signals from both MM and MC cartridges, the Asterion V3—like...
The change isn’t major, but it reassures us that, following continuous development of the new Diva Utopia connected line—recently expanded to include a third model, the Alta—the French manufacturer is still committed to its passive models. On paper, almost nothing has...
First launched in 2012 and subsequently expanded into several models of varying quality, AudioQuest’s DragonFly portable DAC has since sold more than 300,000 units. Today, the lineup is being streamlined to a single flying dragon, superior to all its predecessors,...
JPLAY introduces support for the UPnP Eventing protocol, enabling full bidirectional control between the iOS app and Grimm Audio’s MU1 and MU2 audio players. With this development, Grimm joins the “JPLAY Certified” circle, which already includes 3D-Lab, Atoll,...
Many of you still held them in high regard—or even owned them. Yet Sonus Faber’s Olympica Nova (version 2) models were beginning to show their age, which is why, at the start of summer, right after Fashion Week, the Italian manufacturer unveiled its brand-new Olympica...
