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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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....
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
