Review: Jamie Biesemans

For the last half-century or so, Dynavector has doggedly entrenched itself in vinyl replay's moving-coil camp. The company, founded in 1974 by Dr. Noboru Tominari upon his retirement from the position of professor in mechanical engineering at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, never built a moving-magnet cartridge. Commercially courageous, bearing in mind the popularity of MMs, it is also indicative of a company staying true to its core tenets.

In only a few years Eversolo has captured the audio enthusiast’s attention, notably those hunting for well priced do-it-all boxes brimming with functionality. Frankly, it’s hard to imagine more features being shoe-horned into streaming DACs like its DMP-A8 [HFN May ’24] or DMP-A10 [HFN May ’25], all of which, and more, are separated into the two-box £1290 T8 streamer/music library and ‘purist’ £1940 DAC-Z10 reviewed here.

It’s hard to say how many turntables Pro-Ject has launched since its birth in 1991, but you could always rely on a Debut deck being part of the lineup. The inaugural model did not mark the brand’s beginning but it was the turntable that allowed the Austrian company to fan the flames of analogue replay before the ‘vinyl revival’.

Onkyo has carved a name for itself as a leading maker of AV receivers, but the Japanese company has never lost sight of its two-channel roots, and neither have its fans. Onkyo’s M series power amps, including the M-504 from 1987, still trade for hefty prices on the secondhand market. Aside from its sonic capabilities, that model is valued for its large VU meters, a trend not lost on Onkyo when it came to setting the aesthetic for its new M-80 power amplifier. Paired with the P-80 streaming preamplifier, the system delivers the convenience demanded in 2026.