January 10, 2021

Review: Audio Note CD4.1x Integrated Transport and DAC

With the CD4.1x Audio Note UK shows it is focused on creating supremely musical hardware rather than touting measurements as a metric for success.
June 26, 2023

Cicely Balston of AIR Studios: Mastering Engineer of The Year

Cicely Balston knows a thing or two about the mystique surrounding the mastering process, having been at the cutter-head helm on hundreds of albums, first at Gearbox Records, and now at Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Hampstead, London.
July 12, 2023

Review: Audio Note UK M3 Phono Preamplifier

With the Audio Note UK M3 Phono I listen longer, I experience greater note-to-note fluidity, I’m more intrigued, I hear further into recordings than I have previously, yet it is not about this piano hammer pressure on wire, or that shimmering decay of cymbal, nor is it the drive and impact of bass. No, it is all of these things and also, paradoxically, none of them.