Herb Reichert starts out skeptical but is quickly won over by the sound of the Ray Tubes RESERVE 300B.

Tom Gibbs of Positive Feedback swaps Ray Tubes SELECT 12AU7s and RESERVE EL34s into his PrimaLuna EVO 300 and finds plenty to like about the results.

Alpha Audio approaches the Lab 12 DAC1 Reference with considerable skepticism, pairs it with the pre1, and discovers that an open mind can be a useful piece of test equipment.

The Jones & Cerreta Troubadour is so new that we don’t even have them to show yet. Here’s a bunch of Stereophile coverage, in case you missed it!

Holger Barske starts with a €230 cartridge that suddenly seems to belong several classes higher, then goes to the other extreme and finds the Korf Audio TA-AF9 just as convincing.

Ken Micallef feasts on the Super Linton, sizes up four formidable competitors, and comes away wondering whether any of them can match what the Wharfedale brings to the table.

Herb Reichert settles in with the Dr. Feickert Blackbird and discovers the kind of turntable he could happily live with. Two weeks later, he’s ready to propose marriage.

Herb Reichert throws one wildly different cartridge after another at the Lab 12 Melto2 and ends up wondering why he’d want to use another phono stage.

It’s fair to say the pairing Maco + Whammerdyne wouldn’t have happened at TAF if Backbeat Audio hadn’t brought these iconic-brands-in-the-making together in our studio. The Audiophile Junkie was duly impressed!

The uncharacteristic shape and size of the Wattson Audio Madison LE Streamer + Amp didn’t throw Absolute Sound writer Rives Bird for even a second. He knew what he was hearing was Editor’s Choice level great.

In which the Wattson Audio Madison LE Streamer/DAC shows Herb Reichert what “vibrant and intense” streaming ought to sound like and gets a Stereophile “A+” rating for its trouble.

The Wattson Audio Madison amp checks all the boxes for Tracking Angle reviewer Jacob Heilbrunn.

Martin Colloms’ review of the QUAD 33/303 centers on the history of this legendary pairing, and all that’s new in this edition.

Thomas & Stereo gives an overview of the MACARIAS design, along with his impressions of the sound.

Enjoy the Music’s Rick Barker gives MACO it’s first print review of the MACARIAS!

Hi-Fi Cave raves about the sound and looks of the MACARIAS.