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LUXMAN L-100 CENTENNIAL: A Century of Japanese Audio Heritage

If you like beautifully made Japanese audio equipment, it is difficult to ignore LUXMAN. The company traces the beginning of its business to 1925. This makes LUXMAN one of Japan’s longest-established names in audio.

Aurorasound’s New HFSA-02. An Amplifier Outside the Ordinary

When I was looking for a new phono amplifier some years ago, before Walden High-End Audio, I came across Aurorasound. I had never heard of the brand, but when listening to the VIDA MKII phono amplifier, I discovered a sound that immediately drew me in: the expressiveness and fluidity one associates with a good tube amplifier, combined with a sense of scale and energy.

LUXMAN D-100 CENTENNIAL

If you have a weakness for Japanese technology at its very best, it is difficult to ignore LUXMAN. Few names in high-end audio can draw upon a history as long and as rich. The story began in 1925, and over the course of a century LUXMAN has lived through virtually every major transition in audio: from radio to hi-fi, from valves to transistors, from analogue to digital, and from the Compact Disc to SACD and high-resolution music.