GREAT NEWS FROM AUDIO RESEARCH
Following a period of uncertainty, we have received the great news that Audio Research has a new owner and will continue to produce its high-end HiFi in Minnesota USA.
The Audio Research VT80 Amplifier and LS28 Preamplifier are the entry-level products 
from this American icon, so will they be worth their £17,000 pricetag? Stuart Smith finds out. More »
After two years in development, the all new Reference 160M (REF160M) Monoblock Power Amplifier is built like no other, looks like no other, and sounds like no other amplifier that you have ever heard, yet it is unmistakably Audio Research. More »
McIntosh Group, formerly Fine Sounds, has been launched.
McIntosh Group is the parent company of six luxury audio brands – Audio Research, McIntosh, Pryma, Sonus faber, Sumiko Subwoofers and Wadia. They say that their group represents ‘an unparalleled assemblage of performance audio brands each with its own unique history, distinctiveness and reverence from their longtime customers’. The McIntosh Group continues with ‘the aim of making recordings generate all the excitement of live music’.
