May 6, 2025
THE “SPELLBINDING” PERLISTEN S7t LE
Having experienced Perlisten’s Limited Edition S7t, Audiograde.uk’s Andrew Simpson says it “adds so much more to what was an already highly accomplished model…the soundstage is notably vast and all encompassing, being expansive as it is engaging as you’re enveloped in a mix that’s bursting with detail and energy…the control and precision these speakers muster is spellbinding…Wish I was there? This is the next best thing.” Review HERE
April 28, 2025
“SWEET SOUNDS, INDEED”
“A detailed, smooth and open performance that gets to the heart of the music” says Hi Fi News of BAT’s VK90 tube preamp in the June 25 issue. Awarding an outstanding badge, the mag enthuses that the VK-90 sounded “effortlessly musical”, while retaining “an ability to fully immerse you in the music”, and draws comparisons with another venerated act – The Rolling Stones – in its concluding paragraph: “For a band in its sixth decade
April 26, 2025
TRUE HI FI BARGAIN: THE EMOTIVA XDA-3
For the-ear.net David Vivian plugs-in the Emotiva XDA-3 DAC/Pre and discovers a true hi-fi bargain: “No slow-burn, you’ll-like-me-when-you-know-me transactional posturing here. With all that familial firepower to do its bidding, the XDA-3 is an instant, get-a-load-of-this, high-achiever…With Primare’s excellent NP5 Prisma Mk2 streaming transport plugged in via the Toslink optical input, listening to a 24/96kHz Qobuz stream through the XDA-3/A-300 after a talented and far pricier super-integrated/outboard DAC of repute (I’ll save the blushes) is
April 22, 2025
PERLISTEN R SERIES BOOKSHELF 5.1: “AS GOOD AS IT GETS”
Awarding a ‘Best Buy’ with an ultimate 10/10 score, Martin Dew at AVForums has been stunned by a close encounter with a compact 5.1 system of Perlisten’s R series speakers. He says: “The only other opportunities I’ve had to listen to Perlisten’s range have been on less-than-ideal tradeshow floors or busy showrooms. Bringing them home, I did not expect to be bowled over in quite this way. What makes these R-Series speakers so special is
April 1, 2025
GET CLOSER WITH THE PERLISTEN S7t LEs
The UK’s reference Hi Fi mag, Hi Fi News, has auditioned the Perlisten S7t LE Limited Edition flagships, and discovered all the characteristics that make Perlisten design exceptional, but with a refinement that renders the experience more intimate and personal. In the May 25 edition, Jamie Biesemans notes that the S7t LE forges “an immediate relationship with the music, (it) tries less to evoke a grand concert hall than to place you in the front




