In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Hifi News (UK)

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  B&W CELEBRATES ITS ABBEY ROAD HISTORY WITH LIMITED 801 D4 SIGNATURE
• Estelon’s A game
  NEW STANDMOUNT READY FOR ANY ROOM
• Box clever
  PRO-JECT MEETS WIIM IN STREAMING AMP
• Sonic sorcery for vinyl
  GRIMM AUDIO DEBUTS ‘MINIMALIST TOPOLOGY’ PHONO AMP
• London Decca returns
  CARTRIDGE BRAND RELAUNCHES, SAYS PHONO AMP TO COME
• Silent slimline streamer
  APP-DRIVEN MUSIC PLAYER/DAC OFFERS SSD UPGRADE PATH
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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
• Rule Britannia
  One part musical genre, one part media-fuelled cultural phenomenon, Britpop was the UK’s vibrant answer to America’s grunge. Johnny Sharp spotlights 20 of its best albums
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• CH Precision L1/M1.1
  From the pen of the designer behind the turn-of-the-millennium Anagram upsampler tech comes not one but two complete series of high-end digital/analogue components
• dCS Lina DAC X
  First came the three-box Lina headphone amp/DAC, followed by the Lina and Lina 2.0 DACs, the latter tickled-up again with the addition of volume and a full-width chassis
• Quad 3
  ‘Embracing the future/celebrating the past’, says Quad as it launches its first integrated, styled after the 22 control unit from 1959 and equipped with digital tech from today
• Soulines tt9/KiVi M3
  Serbian brand Soulines brings its holistic design philosophy to bear on a new deck and captive unipivot arm that claims ‘affordable high-end’ performance. It’s no idle boast…
• Børresen C1
  The C series is one of four speaker ranges from Audio Group Denmark’s Børresen Acoustics. We start with the standmount
• Aqua La Scala MkIII
  Off-the-shelf chipsets are firmly off the menu for Italy’s Aqua as the brand evolves its unique take on the NOS ‘ladder DAC’ concept… now with a FET/tube output stage
• Wilson Audio Submerge
  The Utah-based brand digs deep to take on the challenge of palpable infra-bass with its largest active subwoofer to date. We close all the hatches and dive, dive, dive…
• Dynaudio Confidence 20A
  High-end performance meets ease of use? This new active sibling of the Confidence 20 standmount leverages DSP and amplification from Dynaudio’s pro studio loudspeakers
• Elgar Symphony No.2
  Elgar poured heart and soul into the Second, says Peter Quantrill, plus the technique to produce a creative summation that brings out the best in its interpreters on record
• Judas Priest Rocka Rolla
  This promising 1974 debut LP for five working-class Birmingham lads laid the groundwork for how they became perennial metal gods still going strong today – but it took over 50 years for the album itself to finally be ‘worthy’ of their legacy
• EastWest Studios
  It’s where Frank Sinatra did it his way and The Beach Boys picked up good vibrations… Steve Sutherland on a famed Los Angeles facility that’s still going strong after 60 years
• Drop the mic
  Hearing singers perform without the benefit of amplification is a must for any hi-fi enthusiast, says Barry Fox, so the use of a microphone at the opera means he feels obliged to speak out
• A century of sound
  When was the birth of hi-fi? Barry Willis argues it might have been 100 years ago when record labels embraced new electrical technologies and moved away from the ‘acoustic era’
• Tone it down. Or up?
  As the sight of tone controls on hi-fi hardware becomes rarer, Jim Lesurf salutes their use in making his music listening more enjoyable. Some recordings just need a little helping hand…
• The price of success
  The winner of this year’s Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will have the musical world at their feet – won’t they? Self-confessed ‘jaded hack’ Peter Quantrill has his doubts
• Riding the radio waves
  The birth of DAB soon brought rumours of FM’s demise, but decades on UK radio has become the hodge podge of services that Ofcom once warned us about. Is that a problem? asks Steve Harris
• Technics SU-V303 amplifier
  The 1980s saw the pursuit of low-distortion amplifiers reach its peak. The big brands all had skin in the game but Technics was vying to be market leader with its ‘New Class A’
• Aragon 24K preamplifier
  The Aragon 4004 power amplifier was acclaimed as the high-end bargain of ’88. Is this matching preamp the bargain of ’89? asks Ken Kessler
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