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| Pioneer A-33 |
07 February 2026 |
| By: Axe Grill | |
| "Ancora in Ottima Forma" | |
Nonostante sia stato prodotto nel 1985, mi sta dando grandi soddisfazioni.
Il Jazz e le voci soliste vengono riprodotte con grande presenza e ampiezza.
Translation: Still in Great Shape
Even though it was produced in 1985, I'm still enjoying it immensely.
The jazz and lead vocals are reproduced with great presence and breadth. (Full Review)
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| Teac VRDS-7 |
01 February 2026 |
| By: Peter | |
| "Timeless classic" | |
I’ve owned my VRDS-7 from new (1994). In that time, I have had two small plastic drive gears literally crumble. One drives the CD drawer mechanism and the other drives the laser mechanism. I found a company in the Ukraine that produced copies in brass and have had trouble free operation since (around 5 years ago).
The player is still like new and performs flawlessly. My original intention was to add an independent DAC, but till now have bee...
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| Teac VRDS-7 |
01 February 2026 |
| By: Peter | |
| "Timeless classic" | |
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I’ve owned my VRDS-7 from new (1994). In that time, I have had two small plastic drive gears literally crumble. One drives the CD drawer mechanism and the other drives the laser mechanism. I found a company in the Ukraine that produced copies in brass and have had trouble free operation since (around 5 years ago).
The player is still like new and performs flawlessly. My original intention was to add an independent DAC, but till now have bee...
(Full Review)
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| Infinity BETA 40 |
16 December 2025 |
| By: Cody Berg | |
| "Infinity Beta 40 Review" | |
I purchased a pair of Beta 40's about 6 months ago and I have to say these tower speakers are pretty sweet! All genres of music sound great coming from these speakers, I listen to almost everything, including classical and honestly I've never heard so much bass produced from 6.5" woofers. These speakers have made me take a liking to Infinity audio. It's unfortunate they no longer make home audio equipment..
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| Tangent Clarity 4 |
25 November 2025 |
| By: Joe W | |
| "Bookshelf speaker review" | |
I purchased the Tangent Clarify4 bookshelf speaker pair some 17 years after their initial release. I found them to be superior to the Sony SS CS5 speakers that many thought, redefined the affordable entery into the HIFI experience. A gloss white cabinet, made of some sort composit material, gives this speaker pair a progressively modern appearance. I've used them as a desktop system as well as in a 2.1 system for my tv sound system. If you can fi...
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| Philips FT561 |
11 November 2025 |
| By: Tjerk | |
| "Worthy entry-level tuner" | |
Typical entry level tuner. No frills but good performance. Lacking signal level meter and MPX filtering. Eight FM presets but the display will only show 1-4 or 5-8. Will over the years deteriorate, I had one in for repair with a detuned discriminator coil set. A quick tweak restored nominal operation.
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| Celestion 7 |
19 October 2025 |
| By: Lyman_Zerga | |
| "Celestion 7 Mk II" | |
I had these in the mid 90's, driven by a Pioneer A300 amp fed by a Marantz CD player. I used these on stands in a few medium sized rooms and one small room. The Celestions lacked bottom-end heft - perhaps not surprising given the closed box design and the dimensions and size of the woofer - but everything else was great. They were pretty big bookshelf speakers and they could play loud, cleanly and with great composure. Their real selling point, f...
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| Sherwood AX-4050R |
12 October 2025 |
| By: Simon Ferre | |
| "Great that it has lasted this long without any issues" | |
I bought this amp from Richer Sounds back in the later half of the 1990s. I have kept it going all this time, albeit with periods of no use where it has been kept out of harm's way, and it still works without any grumbling.
Paired with the original speakers I bought at the time, the Wharfedale Diamond Pro, a Cambridge Audio CD4, Sherwood turntable, Teac radio tuner and Aiwa twin cassette player, it has performed well for all these years, and I...
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| Monitor Audio Silver 5i |
10 October 2025 |
| By: Vasco Barreto | |
| "Monitor Audio Silver 5i" | |
They are by no means easy speakers to drive. They perform best with low-distortion amplifiers delivering over 150 watts per channel. The cabinets need to be filled with iron filings or sand to reduce resonance, and they require solid stands underneath. They only truly shine when given the very best equipment you can offer. If you have the right room for them, they’ll give everything they’ve got.
Compared to current models, the bass is very...
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| Tannoy J95 Series 90 |
07 October 2025 |
| By: JOHN NOEL | |
| "Tremendous Speed And Slam In The Bass Region" | |
I had a pair of these in the early 1990s at the end of a system comprising a Linn LP12 motor unit, Linn Ittok tonearm, Linn Asaka mc cartridge, Michell Iso mc phono stage, and Pioneer A400 amplifier.
I have not heard a pair of speakers with speed and slam in the bass as these can reproduce to this date. I never knew that loudpeakers could reproduce a kick drum with such speed and slam as a live drum kit until I heard these(!) Whoever designed ...
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