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Mono and Stereo 01 August 2020
The long running battle of analog versus digital is not showing any signs of stopping any time soon. Proponents of either side have been going at [...] Read More
Hi Fi News 01 December 2018
This high-end turntable package needed to be special given the surfeit of fancy disc-spinners on the market, and so it proved. Its modular construction [...] Read More
Hi Fi Plus 01 December 2017
Old meets the newest of the new in the Brinkmann Audio Nyquist. Although it did make a DAC 30 years ago, Brinkmann is best known for its analogue [...] Read More
The Absolute Sound 01 December 2017
Mention the name Helmut Brinkmann to an audiophile and the first thing that comes to mind is probably the German designer’s superb turntables. But [...] Read More
Hi Fi Plus 01 November 2017
Many reviews are harder to write than this one. The Brinkmann Nyquist DAC is the most inviting-sounding DAC I have heard, or at least the most inviting-sounding [...] Read More
The Audio Beat 01 December 2014
Late November brought the resumption of the Spin Parties hosted by Analog Audio of Minnesota and co-sponsored by The Audio Beat. There was a special [...] Read More
Hi Fi News 01 December 2014
Sporting a unique modular design that accommodates multiple tonearms, a tube-based PSU for the motor and novel heated bearing, this super deck is [...] Read More
Hi Fi News 01 October 2014
Germany’s Brinkmann Audio introduces its new ? agship turntable, the Balance 2, featuring a wealth of innovative technology to extract the very best [...] Read More
The Absolute Sound 01 October 2013
Brinkmann turntables embody the remarkable standard of German engineering better than many of their competitors, the pictures give you some idea [...] Read More
Image-HiFi 01 August 2013
The most prominent feature of the Oasis turntable is most probably its direct drive mechanism. Brinkmann use a precision bearing that is capable [...] Read More
Hi Fi Plus 01 January 2013
There’s an interesting piece on the Brinkmann website which tells us a lot about the way Helmut Brinkmann’s mind works. In essence it explains how [...] Read More
Symmetry 01 February 2012
Helmut Brinkmann didn’t have a choice: with the introduction of the better LaGrange turntable his old battleship Balance should have been history. [...] Read More
The Absolute Sound 01 February 2012
In the fast-paced, technologically driven world of hifi, it is the rare product indeed that defies obsolescence. It is even more uncommon and more [...] Read More
Symmetry 01 June 2011
Choose your favourite: belt vs direct drive, idler wheel vs belt, spring-windup vs wind power, whatever. As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing [...] Read More
Hi Fi World 01 July 2010
Blame the Technics SL1200. Back in the early nine-teen seventies, when this deck was first released, it might has well have been from an alien civilisation, [...] Read More
The Absolute Sound 01 January 2008
As reported in Issues 50 and 51, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the claims for inherent superiority made for 12” tonearms over their [...] Read More
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