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Q Acoustics M20 HD Powered Wireless Music System

Written by: Kurt Wetzel
Created: 01 June 2022

Q Acoustics, founded in the UK in 2006, produces loudspeakers that range from the inexpensive 3010i compact bookshelf model ($299 per pair, all prices in USD) to the Concept 500 floorstander ($6499/pair), with a plethora of choices in between. These include a myriad of home-theater options, including several subwoofers and an active soundbar.

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Sonus Faber Omnia Wireless Music System

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 01 May 2022

The Italian brand Sonus Faber is known for beautifully crafted passive loudspeakers that use luxurious materials, including exotic wood finishes and front baffles with leather inserts. Earlier this year, Sonus Faber announced its Omnia Wireless Music System ($1999, all prices in USD unless noted otherwise). With flowing lines, five-layer veneered walnut top panel, sculpted base, and textured fabric grilles, the Omnia shares the design aesthetic of Sonus Faber’s passive speakers.

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Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless Speaker

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 01 April 2022

If I had to name two products that laid the groundwork for Simplifi’d hi-fi, they’d be Apple’s iPod and Bowers & Wilkins’s Zeppelin iPod speaker. Before Apple launched the iPod in 2001, most people listened to their own music on physical media, one disc or tape at a time. The iPod let them store an entire music library on one pocketable device and play tracks at random.

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NAD Masters M10 V2 Streaming Integrated Amplifier

Written by: Vince Hanada
Created: 15 March 2022

Note: for the full suite of measurements from the SoundStage! Audio-Electronics Lab, click this link.

The original NAD Masters M10 streaming amplifier, introduced in January 2019, is a compact, versatile unit that can form the heart of a modern high-fidelity system. It has everything you can imagine you’d want in an integrated amplifier: NAD’s BluOS streaming function, a two-channel amplifier, Dirac Live room correction, a DAC, digital and analog inputs, and more. The M10 fits NAD’s “just add speakers” philosophy perfectly. Gordon Brockhouse reviewed the M10 on this site in May 2019—it received a Reviewers’ Choice award and was subsequently named a SoundStage! Network Product of the Year.

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Mission LX Connect Wireless Active Speakers and Hub

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 01 March 2022

The British hi-fi brand Mission is best known for its passive loudspeakers; but, late last year, the company introduced a lifestyle music system that combines a wireless hub with a pair of active bookshelf loudspeakers. Priced at $1699.99 (all prices in USD), the LX Connect was designed and engineered in the UK, with acoustic engineering by Mission and electronic design by its sister company Audiolab. Both brands are part of the International Audio Group (IAG), a Chinese company that also owns Castle Acoustics, Leak, Luxman, Quad, and Wharfedale.

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Linn Series 3 Active Loudspeakers

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 01 February 2022

When Linn Products announced its Series 3 active loudspeaker in October 2019, the Scottish company called it “the world’s best-sounding wireless speaker.” Given that bold claim, Linn chose an appropriate launch venue for the speaker. For several months, the Series 3 was available exclusively at Linn’s flagship showroom in Harrods department store in London, England. In 2020, Linn rolled out the Series 3 to its worldwide dealer network.

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Bang & Olufsen Beolab 28 Active Loudspeakers

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 15 January 2022

Reviewers' ChoiceIs there an audio manufacturer whose products exemplify Simplifi’d hi-fi more than Denmark’s Bang & Olufsen? I doubt it. Formed in 1925, B&O started offering “convenient, lifestyle-oriented hi-fi” components not long after the word “lifestyle” had been coined.

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KEF KC62 Powered Subwoofer

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 15 December 2021

Reviewers' ChoiceHere’s a bit of audio trivia for your holiday enjoyment: Who was J.A. Hofmann? If you’ve been into audio as long as I have, you’ll know him as the H in the loudspeaker brand KLH. Along with Henry Kloss and Malcolm S. Low, Hofmann was a founding partner of KLH Research and Development Corporation, which was formed in 1957, and has recently been revived as KLH Audio.

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NAD C 700 Streaming Integrated Amplifier

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 01 December 2021

Note: for the full suite of measurements from the SoundStage! Audio-Electronics Lab, click this link.

The fall of 2021 has been a busy time for NAD Electronics. In the past few months, the Pickering, Canada–based company has announced three new integrated amplifiers, all of them with intriguing feature sets.

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iFi Audio Zen Stream Wi-Fi Streamer

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 15 November 2021

In the past few years, UK-based iFi Audio has introduced an impressive series of compact, affordable components under its Zen sub-brand. These include the Zen Blue V2 Bluetooth DAC ($189, all prices in USD unless noted otherwise), Zen DAC V2 DAC-headphone amp ($189), Zen Phono MM/MC phono stage ($199), and Zen Can balanced headphone amp ($199).

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System Audio Legend 40.2 Silverback Active Loudspeakers and Stereo Hub WiSA Transmitter

Written by: Gordon Brockhouse
Created: 01 November 2021

Sometimes, I envy reviewers on other sites of the SoundStage! Network. Most of the time, they’re reviewing single-purpose products like passive loudspeakers, amplifiers, DACs, turntables, and headphones, so they can focus mainly on how the component sounds.

Read more: System Audio Legend 40.2 Silverback Active Loudspeakers and Stereo Hub WiSA Transmitter

  1. Bluesound Node Streaming DAC-Preamplifier
  2. Acoustic Energy AE1 Active Loudspeakers
  3. Q Acoustics Q Active 200 Active Loudspeakers
  4. Bluesound Powernode Multiroom Streaming Integrated Amplifier
  5. Edifier Airpulse A300Pro Active Loudspeakers
  6. KEF LS50 Wireless II Active Loudspeakers
  7. Bryston BR-20 Streaming Preamplifier-DAC
  8. HEDD Type 05 MK2 Active Speakers and Bass 08 Subwoofer
  9. SVS 3000 Micro Subwoofer
  10. Sony SA-Z1 Active Nearfield Loudspeakers
  11. Heavenly Soundworks FIVE17 Active Loudspeakers
  12. Marantz SACD 30n SACD/CD Player and Streaming DAC-Preamp
  13. DALI Oberon 1 C Active Loudspeakers and Sound Hub Wireless Transmitter
  14. PSB Alpha AM3 Powered Loudspeakers
  15. iFi Audio Neo iDSD DAC-Preamp-Headphone Amplifier
  16. Bluesound Pulse Sub+ Wireless Subwoofer
  17. PSB Alpha AM5 Powered Loudspeakers
  18. SVS Prime Wireless SoundBase Streaming Integrated Amplifier
  19. Focal Solo6 Be Active Loudspeakers
  20. Buchardt Audio A500 Active Loudspeakers and Stereo Hub WiSA Transmitter
  21. Klipsch The Fives Active Loudspeakers
  22. Triangle Elara LN01A Powered Loudspeakers
  23. Volumio Primo Community Edition and Hi-Fi Edition Streaming DACs
  24. System Audio Legend 5 Silverback Active Loudspeakers and Stereo Hub WiSA Transmitter
  25. Andover Audio Model-One Turntable Music System
  26. Elac Alchemy DDP-2 Streaming DAC-Preamp
  27. Focal Shape 65 Analog Active Loudspeakers
  28. HEDD Type 07 Analog Active Loudspeakers
  29. exaSound Audio Design Delta Music Server M100
  30. Bryston BDA-3.14 Streaming DAC-Preamplifier
  31. iFi Audio Pro iDSD Streaming DAC-Preamp-Headphone Amplifier
  32. Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar
  33. DALI Rubicon 6 C Hybrid Active Loudspeakers
  34. Pro-Ject Audio Systems Pre Box RS2 Digital DAC-Preamp-Headphone Amp
  35. Klipsch RW-51M Wireless Powered Loudspeakers
  36. iFi Audio Aurora Wireless Music System
  37. Naim Audio Mu-so Qb 2nd Generation Wireless Music System
  38. Cambridge Audio CXA81 Integrated Amplifier-DAC
  39. Hegel Music Systems H120 Integrated Amplifier-DAC
  40. DALI Katch One Soundbar
  41. NAD Classic C 658 BluOS Streaming DAC
  42. Kanto Audio Tuk Powered Loudspeakers
  43. Lumin T2 Network Music Player
  44. Naim Audio ND5 XS 2 Network Music Player
  45. Elac Navis ARF-51 Active Loudspeakers
  46. Devialet Phantom Reactor 900 Active Loudspeakers
  47. PMC result6 Active Loudspeakers
  48. Bowers & Wilkins Formation Duo Active Loudspeakers
  49. Naim Audio Mu-so 2nd Generation Wireless Music System
  50. McIntosh Laboratory MTI100 Integrated Turntable
  51. Yamaha WXA-50 MusicCast Streaming Amplifier
  52. NAD Masters M10 BluOS Streaming Integrated Amplifier
  53. Primare SC15 Prisma Streaming DAC-Preamp
  54. Naim Uniti Core CD Ripper/Music Server
  55. Elac Navis ARB-51 Active Loudspeakers
  56. Bluesound Pulse 2i Wireless Speaker
  57. SVS Prime Wireless Active Speakers
  58. Totem Acoustic Kin Play Powered Speakers
  59. KEF LSX Active Loudspeakers
  60. Bluesound Vault 2i CD Ripper-Server-Streamer
  61. Pro-Ject Audio Systems Stream Box S2 Ultra Music Streamer
  62. Kii Audio Three DSP-Controlled Active Loudspeakers
  63. Aurender S5W Battery-Powered Wireless Active Loudspeakers
  64. Cambridge Audio Yoyo (L) Wireless Speaker
  65. DALI Callisto 2 C Active Speaker System
  66. Kanto SYD Bluetooth Speaker
  67. LG G7 ThinQ Smartphone
  68. Pro-Ject Audio Systems Juke Box E Turntable-Integrated Amplifier
  69. NAD D 3020 V2 Bluetooth Integrated Amplifier-DAC
  70. Polk Assist Wi-Fi Smart Speaker
  71. MartinLogan Unison Wireless Preamplifier
  72. Dynaudio Music 7 Wi-Fi Speaker
  73. Musical Fidelity M6 Encore 225 Music System
  74. Cocktail Audio X35 Music System
  75. Peachtree Audio decco125 Sky Integrated Amplifier-DAC
  76. Technics Ottava f SC-C70 Music System
  77. JBL Link 500 Wi-Fi Speaker
  78. Trinnov Amethyst DAC-Preamplifier-Processor
  79. Control4 Triad One Streaming Amplifier
  80. Elac Discovery Z3 Wi-Fi Speaker
  81. Klipsch Heritage Wireless Three Wi-Fi Speaker
  82. Paradigm PW 300 Wi-Fi Loudspeakers
  83. Thiel Audio Aurora Home Wi-Fi Speaker
  84. Hegel Music Systems H190 DAC-Integrated Amplifier
  85. Yamaha R-N803 Network Stereo Receiver
  86. Onkyo TX-8270 Network Stereo Receiver
  87. Dynaudio Focus 20 XD Active Loudspeakers
  88. Riva Audio Festival Wi-Fi Speaker
  89. Naim Audio Uniti Atom Wireless Streaming DAC-Integrated Amplifier
  90. NAD Masters Series M50.2 Digital Music Player
  91. Bryston BryFi BW-1 Wi-Fi Speaker
  92. Arcam rPlay Music Streamer
  93. Auralic Polaris Wireless Streaming DAC-Integrated Amplifier
  94. Simaudio Moon Neo ACE DAC-Streamer-Integrated Amplifier
  95. NAD C 368 DAC-Integrated Amplifier
  96. Lumin M1 Integrated Amplifier-Network Music Player
  97. Arcam Solo Music DAC-Integrated Amplifier-Universal Player
  98. McIntosh Laboratory RS100 Wi-Fi Loudspeakers
  99. Hegel Music Systems Röst Integrated Amplifier
  100. Naim Audio Mu-so Qb Wi-Fi Speaker
  101. Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 2 Wi-Fi Speaker

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