Nostalgia is a powerful poison, currently fueling a massive surge in the audio industry. Regardless of product category or price range, brands are digging into their past. These products, born from memory, always evoke a period that was "at least bad to varying...

Founded in Radboud, Netherlands in 1983, Siltech initially built its reputation on experimental silver, copper, platinum, and aluminum conductors. In 1992, Edwin van der Kley Rynveld acquired the company and, leveraging his experience as a senior electronics engineer,...

Chord Company's Tuned ARAY technology originated from the development of their Sarum cable series. The development stemmed from their awareness of numerous high-frequency interference sources in the living environment, including home computers, power supplies, mobile...

Dutch company SILTECH is one of the leading audio cable manufacturers. For years, it has set the standard in the high-end market with its TRIPLE CROWN series, along with a few other manufacturers. However, this May, it launched its new top-of-the-line MASTER CROWN...

Excerpted from *Audio Technology* In the minds of many traditionally-minded audiophiles, choosing a high-quality amplifier naturally leads to considerations of separate preamplifiers and power amplifiers. This is because, historically, well-known and large-scale audio...

On the cover of the PMC Prophecy brochure, as you might expect, it's a lavish production, emblazoned with the words "hear the future." This is essentially marketing rhetoric, but perhaps there's a grain of truth to it. High-quality speakers can transport listeners...

Excerpted from *Audio Technology* In today's audio systems, besides the performance of the equipment and cables themselves, the most crucial factor is, of course, the power supply to the equipment for proper operation. A stable and pure power supply not only makes the...

It's early August, and I've just returned from Europe. While in Vienna, I visited Pro-Ject Audio Systems and the European Audio Team, followed by a trip to the Netherlands to visit International Audio Holding (IAH), the parent company of Siltech, Crystal Cable, HMS...

The PMC Propecy1 loudspeaker is a direct replacement for the Twenty5 21i, a rather compact bookshelf speaker clearly aimed at the home market. To me, PMC's origin story is interesting. New audio companies often use the marketing message, "We examined the existing...

Audio T Cheltenham Review "This is no ordinary turntable," is the first sentence you'll read when you open the instruction manual for this sexy turntable. So, let's verify this bold claim, shall we? First, a history lesson… SME is undoubtedly one of the most iconic...

Back in 2011, when I was writing for the online publication *6moons*, I had the opportunity to test the most expensive signal cable connected to my system at the time. It was truly astronomical; a pair of 1-meter RCA cables cost $42,000. Yes, it was one of the most...

SME is not a company that frequently updates its products. Typically, their turntables undergo years of development and remain in production for decades. This is evidenced by the fact that their first turntable, the Model 30, launched in 1991, is still in production...

Excerpted from *Audio Technology* Audiophiles often face a dilemma when choosing speakers: they desire a compact form factor that's easy to integrate into their homes, yet they also crave the low-frequency throughput of larger speakers. Speaker manufacturers...

Excerpted from *Audio Technology* Founded in 1977 and located in Ballrechten-Dottingen, southwestern Germany, *inakustik* has been dedicated to bringing users a truly "low-loss" sound experience for many years. They have always emphasized scientific manufacturing and...

Excerpted from *Audio Technology* The Chord Company has focused on developing and producing various types of audio cables since its inception, including signal cables, speaker cables, power cables, digital cables, HDMI cables, USB cables, and network cables. They also...