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Storage is getting cheaper, and broadband faster – we really don't need the horrors of compressed music any more Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? The news that Linn MD Gilad Tiefenbrun (above) has suggested MP3 music files are living on ...

The M2Tech HiFace DAC is a little USB stick, is bright orange, sells for just €220, and yet is capable of handling the highest of hi-res music files you can buy. This I had to try…The booming DAC market shows no sign of slowing: just as CD player ...

The dust has settled after the annual High End Show, organised in Munich by Germany's High End Society – and while the weather was ropey, at least making it cooler in the glass-roofed halls, and it felt less crammed than in past years (even ...

Spent an hour or so with Sony's Eric Kingdon here at the High End Show, while he took me through the design of the new Sony STR-DN1040 receiver, on sale from next month.We've already reported on the two new models coming from Sony, but a chat ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to The Week in HD – our guide to all the must-see high-definition TV shows, films, sports and Blu-ray releases to grace your screens over the next seven days. You can also get daily updates on what's on by ...

So, 3D's done and dusted, right? No-one really wanted it much, no-one uses it much, Sky's even stopped making it a premium product and is now bundling it with its HD offering.Smart TV? Hmmm… Been there, done that: now just about every TV you buy ...

Linn is one of the stalwarts of the British hi-fi industry. Taking its name from a local park (the second biggest in Glasgow) Linn was  founded in the early ’70s and started off with just one product – the legendary LP12 ...

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories reviewDaft Punk makes the sun come out. I know this to be true. A trip to Sony Music yesterday for a listen to the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories (possibly the most hotly anticipated album ...

Loewe, a company that knows ‘upmarket’ better than most, today chose the overtly tasteful B&B Italia furniture store on London’s Brompton Road to launch its new Reference ID TV range.We reported on our first sighting of the range at IFA2012 ...

An early career as a radio actor doesn't seem the most obvious start for a speaker designer and the future boss of one of the world's biggest audio companies, but that was exactly the path taken by Arnold Wolf (above), who died last week at the ...