Speaker System

The LS-70 is one of a new series of floor-standing tower speakers from Polk Audio. Like the Polk S4 bookshelf speaker, the LS-70 features newly designed drivers and construction techniques...
Polk Audio LS-70
DCC Recorder

The Texas-built Optimus DCT-2000 is the second Digital Compact Cassette recorder to hit the bench at Hammer Laboratories, just weeks after the Philips DCC900. It may surprise some readers...
Optimus DCT-2000
Speaker System

The well-known German speaker manufacturer MB Quart recently introduced its lowest-priced product to date, the Quart One, which is assembled in the United States using German and North...
MB Quart Quart One
Preamplifier

The Soundscraftsmen name has been associated with quality American-made audio components for more than twenty-four years. The California-based firm, now known as MTX Soundcraftsmen,...
MTX Soundcraftsmen P100
CD Changer

The Technics SL-PD827 is a versatile five-disc carousel-type CD changer offering excellent performance and operating flexibility at a moderate price. Unlike top-loading carousel changers,...
Technics SL-PD827
Speaker System

For the first time in about sixteen years, the Harman Kardon name is gracing a series of loudspeaker systems. There are currently four newly designed models in the series; the Model...
Harman Kardon Thirty
CD-player

I’ve worked with a number of professional compact disc recorders and several computer-peripheral CD recorders, but this is the first time I’ve gotten my hands on a consumer CD recorder....
Pioneer PDR-99
Amplifier

It wasn’t so terribly long ago that pretty much every hi-fi amplifier looked a lot like the Jolida SJ-101A. In those dimly remembered days most amplifiers were very nearly as simple,...
Jolida SJ-101A
Speaker System

The MA series loudspeakers from Monitor Audio of Cambridge, England, are small, two-way systems based on a family of drivers that share many common design characteristics. The MA-301,...
Monitor Audio MA-301
Preamplifier/tuner

Preamplifier/tuners are enjoying something of a resurgence these days, under a new guise: the A/V preamp/tuner, in essence an A/V receiver without the power amplifier. The genre saves...
Harman Kardon PT2500
Speaker System

Celestion, the highly respected British manufacturer, recently introduced its A Series of loudspeakers, which currently consists of three ported systems featuring a new family of drivers...
Celestion A1
A/V receiver

Kenwood's Model 1080VR represents a breakthrough in A/V receivers. Priced at $700, it is one of the first receivers providing full Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoding at a cost substantially...
Kenwood 1080VR