In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Hifi News (UK)

• Spooky spins…
  ’Tis definitely not the season to be jolly, as Steve Sutherland brings you a selection of musical chillers guaranteed to scare away those Halloween trick-or-treaters
• ELAC Concentro 2.0 M 807
  In time for its 99th anniversary, ELAC launches a new flagship speaker with room-friendly, ‘steerable’ sound
• EAT F-Dur/F-Note
  Inspired by EAT’s longstanding Forte S turntable, the new F-Dur shares the two-motor drive concept but in a more elegant, technically evolved form. And the arm has a laser!
• Lumin U2x
  This new flagship network transport offers wholesale upgrades, from an isolated USB audio output and ‘milled from solid’ casework to – most obviously – an offboard PSU
• Devialet Phantom Ultimate
  Launched upon the audio world a decade ago, the Phantom was, and remains, the ‘demonstrator’ of all Devialet’s technologies. Ten years on, its promise is finally realised
• PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid
  The Dutch specialist broke with its all-tube tradition when it launched the EVO 300 Hybrid integrated amp. Its success has now inspired a bridgeable power amp version
• T+A Symphonia
  There’s more than a hint of retro styling to T+A’s slender all-in-one amplifier, but the feature set – including a custom DAC stage and Class D power – is thoroughly modern
• Monitor Audio Bronze 50 7G
  ‘A bold reimagining of the award-winning range’, claims Monitor Audio as it launches the 7th generation of its entry-level loudspeaker series. We hear the baby standmount…
• Bluesound Node Icon
  This compact black alloy box, with colour display, is top dog in Bluesound’s series of multiroom music streamers, and standard bearer for its MQA-derived QRONO d2a tech
• Orlando Gibbons Beyond The Silver Swan
  His 17th century English madrigal defines the genre, says Peter Quantrill, but Orlando Gibbons’ output is astonishingly diverse for a composer who died before turning 40
• Bad Company Bad Company
  This 1974 debut LP forged a template for mid-’70s rock, in turn sealing the band’s claim to fame in the process – not that the quartet, led by ex-Free songwriter/vocalist Paul Rodgers, weren’t already accustomed to chart success on both sides of the Pond
• Hitachi HT-660 turntable
  The late ’70s was a heyday for quartz-locked, direct-drive turntables where every brand had its own twist on the technology. For Hitachi this was ‘Unitorque’…
• KEF Reference 104/2
  Martin Colloms looks in depth at KEF’s latest Reference series speaker – a five-driver floorstander with innovative force-cancelling bass system
• OFF THE LEASH! KEN KESSLER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS…
  Ken Kessler turns back the clock and is surprised at how good vintage hi-fi can still sound today