Best of Awards

SECRETS Best of Awards 2018

The Editorial Team spends several weeks debating and considering, which is challenging, as every year SECRETS has an opportunity to review great products across the many audio and video components and some products are truly outstanding. It is to the outstanding products that we award...

Best of Awards for 2017

SECRETS Best of Awards 2017

The Editorial Team spends several weeks debating and considering, which is challenging, as every year SECRETS has an opportunity to review great products across the many audio and video components and some products are truly outstanding. It is to the outstanding...

best of awards 2017

Best of Awards To Be Announced on December 6, 2017

It’s that time of the year when SECRETS announces The SECRETS “Best of Awards”. The awards will be announced on December 6. The Editors and the Secrets Team spend several weeks debating and considering, which is challenging, as every year SECRETS has an opportunity to review great products...

Secrets Best of Awards 2016

The SECRETS “Best of Awards” are awarded once a year, in December. The process of deciding on the awards is an arduous one, undertaken by our Editors and Secrets Team. Every year SECRETS has an opportunity to review great products...

Bryston BP-1.5 Phono Preamplifier

With vinyl experiencing such an incredible comeback over the past few years, so have phono preamplifiers, a.k.a., phono stages. They are required because the output of a phono cartridge is so low - on the order of 0.3 mV to 5 mV - that the inputs of preamplifiers that don't have phono stages can't amplify the signal enough for the power amplifier down stream.