Compare Prices : Audiolab 8000S

Review summary: Audiolab has been around for a while and can claim a prestigious hi-fi past, especially during the eighties and nineties. Its position faltered slightly following company restructuring but recent designs have been making a stirring comeback.

Pros: Competitive price ; build quality ; detailed and dynamic performance

Cons: Outdated remote ; lacks cohesive timing

Review summary: Just in case you've been out of the hi-fi scene for a few years and missed it, the story with Audiolab is that it was a very successful amplifier brand, taken over and turned into TAG McLaren Audio, which, sadly, failed and sank

Pros: Nicely built and smart, Finely judged tonal balance

Cons: Detail a little subdued at this price

Verdict: A good - rather than great - performer, but possessed of its own charm nonetheless

Review summary: The 8000CD is a very neatly presented player

Pros: Nicely built and smart, Finely judged tonal balance

Cons: Detail a little subdued at this price

Verdict: The biggest change is in the internals of the DAC, where modern design techniques allow considerably higher performance with respect to such features as low and high-level distortion and jitter than were common in early players

Review summary: If you're old like me and fear The Reaper, you may recall the name Audiolab, but if you're young and mostly none the wiser, you can be forgiven for not having heard of them before. The story goes like this: Audiolab, established in 1983, was bought in ...

Verdict: Together, these components are pretty much the complete package. They performed that rare feat of adding interest to tracks I would usually skip, and could there be a greater compliment to any audio system than that? In effect they're adding to my ...