The Absolute Sound magazine presents the gear that their editors and writers have selected as most worthy of your consideration. These are the components they themselves would buy—or recommend to friends and family.

Durob Audio brand selection has gotten this year 25 Editors’ Choice awards. We are very proud since it also rewards the quality of our brand selection and reinforce us into supporting those brands.

Within the coming days, we will introduce to you each awarded product.

Audio Research Reference Phono 2 SE 

When it comes to phonostage preamplifiers, ARC has perhaps the most distinguished pedigree of all high-end companies. With the Ref Phono 2, it outdid itself, producing the single most natural-sounding phonostage in company history. The new SE version, with doubled power-supply capacitance is even better, with higher resolution of inner detail (both musical and spatial), superior imaging, greater dynamic range, and denser tone color top to bottom. ARC has replaced a classic with another classic. JV, 229