In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Hifi News (UK)

• Clarity kings
  DENMARK’S RADIANT ACOUSTICS ADDS FLOORSTANDERS TO DEBUT LOUDSPEAKER LINE
• Platina completed
  QUAD ADDS TRANSPORT TO TOP-TIER SERIES
• Streamer relaunch
  TV ADDICTS TARGETED BY CAMBRIDGE AUDIO
• Poland’s Pylon premiere
  PASSIVE AND ACTIVE SPEAKER BRAND JOINS HARMONY STABLE
• XLO cables back in UK
  SPEAKER CABLES AND INTERCONNECTS FROM ACROSS THE POND
• Grado Classic collection
  COMPONENT AND DRIVER UPGRADES FOR SEVEN-MODEL SERIES
• Upcoming Events
  INTERNATIONAL DATES FOR YOUR HI-FI DIARY
• The sounds of ’56
  From orchestral symphonies to rock ’n’ roll, musicals to jazz, Ken Kessler, Steve Harris and Christopher Breunig bring you 20 landmark releases from the year HFN was born
• The hi-fi news & Record Review Reader Pledge
  Hi-Fi News’ readers can take full confidence in the fact that every product featured on our front cover, across the magazine and on our website has been comprehensively examined (inc. photography), lab tested and auditioned at our purpose-built facility
• Aurender N50
  This three-box flagship streamer/network bridge from Aurender includes a separate server, digital interface and PSU. Does this approach pay off in superior performance?
• Perlisten A4t
  The new A series is the ‘entry level’ gateway into the world of Perlisten, led by the visually imposing A4t floorstander
• Ayre KX-8/VX-8
  The Colorado brand’s 8 series is its most affordable yet, distilling core technologies into new, modular components including the KX-8 pre with its DAC and streaming options
• Aavik I-188
  From the same stable as Børresen loudspeakers, the Danish-born I-188 is the ‘starter’ model in a range of three related, and deeply intriguing, integrated amplifiers…
• DALI Sonik 9
  Building on the legacy of its earlier, high-value Oberon range, DALI’s seven-strong Sonik series is led by the ’9 floorstander
• Seven decades of hi-fi
  Hi-Fi News has reflected the history and evolution of our audiophile passion for 70 years – here are some of our favourite technical and product highlights of the decades
• London Decca Reference II
  True to Decca’s original ‘positive scanning’ concept, this re-imagined classic cartridge features a superior stylus profile and shrewd choice of magnets, coils and iron cantilever
• Thorens TD 404 DD
  Thorens’ inaugural direct-drive turntable pre-dated the first issue of Hi-Fi News by three years! Fast forward seven decades and this storied brand now has a trio of DD decks
• Leak TruStream/Stereo 230
  A familiar name to ’50s audiophiles, Leak’s latest range has burst onto the market a full half century after its ’70s heyday. We pair its new streamer with the flagship integrated
• Bernstein Candide
  An American opera buffa, a hot political satire, a show too big for 1956 Broadway… Leonard Bernstein’s take on Voltaire is all these things and more, says Peter Quantrill
• Elvis Presley Elvis Presley
  Now celebrating its 70th anniversary, the King of Rock ’n’ Roll’s self-titled debut LP was a thrilling blend of blues, country and boogie that set the bar for where popular music was headed in the second half of the 20th century. A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop!
• Bass, Hope and clarity
  After a visit to a showroom that left him bitten by the ‘hi-fi bug’, Barry Fox was soon shopping for amplifier kits, designing his own loudspeakers and writing for HFN under a pseudonym
• Midrange magic
  The peaks and dips in any loudspeaker’s frequency response may contribute to its musical signature, say Barry Willis – which is why he prefers to trust his ears over his calibration toolbox
• A year to remember
  Christopher Breunig recalls more of the music that made an impact during 1956 – a year when 78rpm discs had given way to the 12in or 10in mono long-playing records soon to yield to stereo
• Think before you ink
  From pen-knife engravings to felt tip pen, Adam Smith has become used to discovering traces of previous ownership on his secondhand hi-fi buys. If you must mark it, do it somewhere discreet…
• Making memories
  He wrote books on Beethoven and Berlioz while editing not one but two audio magazines. Former Hi-Fi News editor John Crabbe is fondly remembered by Steve Harris
• PLATINUM MEMORIES
  HFN READERS RECALL THE EARLIEST DAYS OF HI-FI
• Speakers sought that will ‘read the room’
  HIGH-END OPTIONS CONSIDERED FOR FINAL SYSTEM UPGRADE, BUT COULD SOME ACTIVE DSP-CONTROLLED FLOORSTANDERS BE THE ANSWER?
• Vintage kit resurrected
  LOW MASS ARM MEETS HIGH COMPLIANCE CART IN 1980S TIE-IN BETWEEN SME AND ORTOFON
• Pye Black Box
  With its gorgeous ‘music box’ styling and ease of use, the Pye Black Box – through its ten years of evolution – is considered by some to mark a cornerstone of consumer hi-fi
• Submitted for test…
  A General Electric Company loudspeaker and Connoisseur cartridge were among some of the very first products to be reviewed in Hi-Fi News
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• OFF THE LEASH! KEN KESSLER TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS…
  Ken Kessler looks back to his UK arrival and (for him) the bewildering hi-fi scene at that time