In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Hifi News (UK)

• Four-way flagship
  ELAC RELAUNCHES CONCENTRO RANGE WITH M 807 FLOORSTANDER
• V for victory?
  RANGE-TOPPING SUBWOOFER UNLEASHED
• Amp in fifth gear
  MEET GRYPHON’S NEW CLASS A POWERHOUSE
• Mid-range MCs
  X MARKS THE SPOT FOR ORTOFON QUARTET
• Luxman celebrates 100
  BLACK EDITION MODELS AND MORE IN ‘CENTENNIAL’ SERIES
• Lateral thinking for LPs
  FLAGSHIP SOULUTION TURNTABLE SPORTS MOVING PLATTER
• Rotel amp with DX factor
  NEW-LOOK RANGE CONTINUES WITH DX-5 INTEGRATED
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• THE Ukhi-fi SHOW The ultimate high-end hi-fi experience Live
  First hosted at the prestigious Ascot Grandstand in 2019, the UK’s dedicated high-end audio show returns in 2025 with the ‘who’s who’ of world-class hi-fi
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• Devialet Astra ‘Opéra de Paris’
  Fifteen years after the French boutique brand stunned the hi-fi world with its unique ‘Analogue/Digital Hybrid’ D-Premier amplifier, the technology gets a reboot… and an app
• Technics SL-1300G
  A half century on from its launch, Technics’ latest SL-1300 turntable is still a direct-drive design featuring an S-shaped tonearm, but the tech has evolved beyond compare!
• Michell Apollo/Muse
  With a history stretching back 60 years, the brand responsible for the iconic Reference Electronic and GyroDec turntables launches a new phono preamp. And it’s a knockout!
• Nagaoka MP-700
  Decades of precious jewel/ceramic engineering and cartridge manufacturing gel in Nagaoka’s new flagship that takes the ‘moving-permalloy’ principle to new heights
• Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 600.2
  Sharing the same casework as its Nu-Vista PRE and 800.2 amplifiers, Musical Fidelity’s ‘lower powered’ 600.2 nuvistor/bipolar hybrid integrated is no less of a big beast…
• Revival Audio Atalante 7 Évo
  Big, bluff and promising plenty of bass from its 38cm woofer, the flagship of the French speaker company’s range combines an imposing presence with old-world charm
• AirTight ATM-1e
  How do you improve on a classic valve amp? Japan’s AirTight has been making its ATM-1 stereo power amplifier since 1986, and it’s now been revised for its third generation
• Perlisten D15s
  Leading the US marque’s range of certified ‘THX Dominus’ single-driver subwoofers, the D15s aims to keep its massive 380mm woofer on a tight leash via state-of-the-art DSP
• Volumio Preciso
  Streamer specialist Volumio claims ‘maximum audio integrity without excess’ in its first standalone USB DAC. With this elegant dual-mono chassis, it’s off to a fine start
• Pierre Boulez Organiser of Delirium
  There’s much more to Boulez than the abrasive provocateur, says Peter Quantrill, as he picks out highlights from a life’s work driven by an ambition to fuse poetry and music
• Hair Original Soundtrack
  After the controversial stage musical birthed a succession of chart-topping hits, Hollywood came knocking. Steve Sutherland lets the sunshine in with this 180g reissue
• Wishbone Ash Argus
  Time was, this prog-leaning 1972 breakthrough album became a showcase for Wishbone Ash’s twin-guitar harmonies – but it also balanced the band’s aspirations of conquering the American airwaves while staying true to their British heritage
• Radio silence
  Armour Home’s Q2 Cube wanted to ‘forever change the way people interact with radio’. Fifteen years later it’s been rendered obsolete by a third-party tech change. Barry Fox is flippin’ angry
• Big, bigger, biggest
  Barry Willis continues his whistlestop tour of West Coast audio marques with a visit to speaker maker Magico that leaves him feeling Lilliputian… and considering a listening room upgrade
• Old versus new
  Having made one amplifier upgrade to his listening set-up, Jim Lesurf immediately pondered another – but then discovered he was happy to leave old and new hardware working together
• Revelations and admissions
  A new documentary film about Herbert von Karajan’s Bruckner cycle sheds revealing light on both the technology of the recordings and the interpretations, finds Peter Quantrill
• Everything must go
  Steve Harris has his eyes on the prized LPs of Classic Records founder Michael Hobson, now being sold to audiophile collectors. Or should he make do with a DSD ‘needle drop’ transcription?
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• B&O Beogram 1000 turntable
  Launched in 1967, and updated five times over the next five years, the ’1000 was B&O’s first ‘Beogram’ turntable, equipped with custom tonearm and plug-in cartridge
• Teac VRDS-25 CD player
  With its massive construction, bespoke drive mech and advanced 20-bit DAC, can this silver disc spinner measure up to Paul Miller’s expectations?
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• OFF THE LEASH! KEN KESSLER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS…
  Ken Kessler steps into the murky waters of a current debate about LP pressing evaluation