Hi-fi Search

Exploring hi-fi on Pure Neo starts with the search. It's the front door, and behind it sits the core of the whole platform: the Pure Neo hi-fi database, where brands, their components, and every component's specifications are collected in one place.

The brand search finds the makers. Look up a brand and you see at a glance what we hold for it and what kind of gear it builds. Follow a brand from any result to keep it on your radar; every brand you follow gathers in one list on your My Hi-Fi page. To dig deeper, open its profile page.

The component search finds the gear itself. Search by name, or narrow the results to one brand or one category when you already know what you're after. You can act on any find right from the results: like a component to save it for later, or add it straight to your My Hi-Fi, into a setup you're building or one of your lists.

The database so far.

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Our long-term goal is to cover 98% of every hi-fi component ever built.

Some searches will come up empty. When a product isn't there yet, you request it and we take it from there. A requested product goes straight into your lists as a placeholder.

Advanced search

The advanced search digs into the specifications themselves. Instead of searching by name, you pick a category and narrow it down with filters built for its specs: a slider for a range, checkboxes for options, a simple toggle for yes-or-no questions.

Speakers with a sensitivity above 90 dB, cartridges with a compliance between 15 and 20 µm/mN, whatever you're after, the results show every component in the database that matches. And you can share or bookmark a search; the link keeps every filter set.

Early beta, rolling out later this year: two more tools join the search.

The first ends the browser-tab juggling. When a choice comes down to a few candidates, you pick up to three components from the results and see their specs side by side in one view, with the differences standing out at a glance.

The second turns compatibility into a filter. Matching components is its own discipline in hi-fi: a cartridge has to suit its tonearm, an amplifier its speakers, and the answer hides in the specs. You pick a component you own or have your eye on, and the search narrows to what works with it. Pick a tonearm, and only cartridges with the right weight and compliance remain. Signal versus noise, applied to exploring hi-fi.

Setups

Setups is where you build your hi-fi systems: the one you actually own, the one you're planning next, or the one you dream about.

Rebuild the system you have at home, add photos of it, and show it to others on your public My Hi-Fi profile or share it on social media.

Setups also help you plan ahead. Define an upgrade path by adding the components you're considering buying next. Or plan an entirely new system, whether it's your first or one for another room. And if you like, curate your cost-no-object dream setup, just for the joy of it or to discuss it with others.

You choose for each setup whether it's private or public. And for public ones, you decide exactly how much detail visitors get to see.

You can also like other people's setups, and they show up on your own My Hi-Fi page.

Early beta, rolling out this year: compare the specs of components of the same kind side by side, for example the one you own against the upgrades you're considering. And a compatibility marker shows how well two components work together, like amplifier and speakers or cartridge and tonearm, and explains what makes a good match.

AI price search tells you what your systems are worth: the one at home, the one you're planning, or the dream you've been curating. Prices come per component: type one in yourself or fetch it with an AI web search, and price a whole setup in one click. The setup then shows its total value and how much of it is already known.

Whether that value appears on the public view is your choice: some keep it to themselves, some show it off along with the setup.

My Hi-Fi

My Hi-Fi is where your whole hi-fi life comes together in one place: the system you run today, the components you want next, and everything you've owned along the way.

My Setups

My Setups is the overview of all the systems you've built. Each setup appears as a card that shows it at a glance: the photo, what's inside from sources to speakers, and what the whole system is worth. Behind each card sits the full setup page.

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Components

Components is where you collect components into three lists, each with its own purpose.

The Liked list gathers every component you've liked across Pure Neo, so nothing you found while browsing gets lost. The Shelf holds the gear you own that isn't part of a setup: the spare cartridge, the headphones in the drawer, the amp waiting for its next system. And the Wishlist is for the components you want to own next, the place where your next upgrade takes shape.

Following

Following is where you keep everyone that matters to you on Pure Neo: the brands you care about, the dealers you buy from, the reviewers you trust, and fellow enthusiasts you've discovered. Each type has its own list, so any of them is just one look away.

Reviews

Reviews collects every review you've liked across Pure Neo, so the ones worth reading again stay within reach when it's time to decide.

Hi-Fi Journey

The Hi-Fi Journey is where you tell your hi-fi story. Add the components you've owned over the years, each with the year you got it, and the timeline draws the path from your first system to the one you run today.

The Hi-Fi Journey is an early prototype: it depends on a catalogue that reaches decades back, and coverage of older and vintage components is still ahead. We plan to open vintage cataloguing to the community.

Public Profile

The Public Profile is the public side of your My Hi-Fi page: a page to share with anyone, on Pure Neo, the web, or social media.

It puts privacy and fairness first: you decide whether you want a public profile at all, and if you do, what visitors get to see. Every My Hi-Fi section has its own switch, and so does every setup. Whatever is switched off doesn't show.

AI Assistant

The AI Assistant is where you bring your hi-fi questions: what amplifier fits your speakers, whether a cartridge suits your tonearm, or what to upgrade first.

Answers follow facts and physics, not marketing claims. When a number is unknown, the Assistant says so rather than inventing one, and when a question rests on a shaky premise, the answer puts it straight and explains what's actually behind it. On the old debates, tubes or transistors, vinyl or digital, there is no bias or agenda, just what facts actually make the difference.

A dedicated settings page lets you tell the Assistant about your situation: your room, your gear, your listening and music preferences, your experience and budget. Whenever a question calls for it, the answer takes those settings into account instead of starting from scratch. One switch turns the hi-fi context off for a clean-slate answer, and anything you leave unset stays out.

You choose which AI model you want to use, from the well-known frontier models for the hard questions to smaller, faster ones for the everyday ones, and new versions arrive the day they come out. Every model has our product data behind it, so it can look things up instead of guessing.

Your conversations stay saved and can be reopened any time. An overview shows how much you've used over the past days and months.

AI Academy

The AI Academy is twelve short units on how AI works, what it costs, and how to get good answers out of it, grouped into three levels from beginner to expert.

You learn how to pick the right model for the question, how to ask so the answer actually lands, and what's going on under the hood when the AI gets something wrong. Each unit takes about a minute.

Privacy and fairness

On Pure Neo, your hi-fi is yours to show. There is no score attached to it.

Likes and follows exist, as your own tools: liked components and setups gather in your My Hi-Fi, and the brands, dealers, reviewers and people you follow stay one look away. What nobody sees is the count. No one knows how many likes a setup has or who follows whom, you included.

The reason is simple. Wherever likes and follows are counted, the numbers decide who gets seen, and whoever already has an audience gets more of it. There is no fair version of that. So we don't rank anyone by audience: someone who joined today appears exactly like someone who has been here for years, and there is nothing to game.

The same goes for comments and forums: Pure Neo has none. We tried both, and as participation grew, the bullies came out. Moderation doesn't fix that. There are enough good communities and forums already, and Pure Neo is a different product category.

And what you do show, you chose to show.