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Sonus Faber Sonetto V, Affordable Italian Poetry

May 10, 2022May 10, 2022hifichicken Comment

Sonus Faber sent over a pair of Sonetto V, the middle of the Sonetto floor standing line up, for review. The Sonetto V [...]

March 14, 2022May 13, 2022hifichicken Comment

Rotel and Ken Ishawata teamed up to design and make a competitive and high-performance CD player. The A11 and CD11 are a couple [...]

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022hifichicken Comment

SVS is known for their subwoofers, they make some massive earth-shaking subwoofers. Well, they also make a tiny, rather micro subwoofer, but is [...]

February 10, 2022May 10, 2022hifichicken Comment

The latest from iFi Audio is the xDSD Gryphon headphone DAC and Amp. This powerful yet compact DAC/Amp is a pretty impressive piece [...]

January 9, 2022January 9, 2022hifichicken Comment

Wells Audio, named for its creator, Jeff Wells, is a rather young company in the world of high-end audio. I met Jeff at [...]

November 21, 2021November 22, 2021hifichicken Comment

We attended the best show on the Eastcoast, Capital Audiofest, the show had many of the familiar brands and a few I had [...]

November 12, 2021February 16, 2022hifichicken Comment

The latest to come in from iFi Audio was the Go Blu. The Go Blu is their smallest portable DAC/Amp yet, while still [...]

October 4, 2021October 5, 2021hifichicken Comment

Rotel sent over the RA-1572MKII for us to check out, this just after the Michi X5, also from Rotel. I was excited to [...]

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021hifichicken Comment

Ifi Audio has sent over another piece of kit for us to check out, this time it is the iDSD Diablo. We expected [...]

April 25, 2021November 12, 2021hifichicken Comment

A lot of companies that offer mid or entry-level products like to break into high-end markets, this is no different in the audio [...]

March 22, 2021November 12, 2021hifichicken Comment

Heaven 11 is a boutique amp builder in Montreal Canada, run by Itai Azerad, designer of the Billie Amp. I reached out to [...]

February 23, 2021February 24, 2021hifichicken Comment

We received a pair of Meze Rai Solos a little while ago and have been testing them out. The Rai Solo is a [...]

January 18, 2021January 17, 2021hifichicken 1

The SVS Ultra towers, SVS’s flagship model is back for part 2 of their review. This time we have them in the 2.1 [...]

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021hifichicken 2

FiiO makes a variety of generally affordable audio gear. The FiiO M9 is one of their mid-range DAP’s or Digital Audio Player. When [...]