In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Hifi News (UK)

• NEWS
  We reveal the latest products and upcoming events
• Surround sensations
  From Mingus to Mancini, The O’Jays to The Doors, Ken Kessler brings you an audiophile’s A-list of 20 brand-new surround sound albums ready to wrap you in all their 360 o glory
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• EAT Fortissimo/F-Note
  High style meets high mass in EAT’s flagship turntable, coupled here with one of the most flexible tonearm solutions ever seen – the F-Note even includes an alignment laser!
• Naim Uniti Nova Power Ed.
  Naim Audio’s latest single-box solution takes the Uniti Nova, with its NP800 streaming platform, and swaps out the Class A/B amplifier for a higher power Class D engine
• Epos Model ES-7N
  Innovative as ever, the go-to-speaker designer Karl-Heinz Fink solves the solution of where to best site a small speaker. For the diminutive ES-7N the answer is… anywhere!
• Yamaha HA-L7A
  A fusion of Yamaha’s hi-fi audio technologies with the proprietary Sound Field modes debuted on its AV hardware decades ago, the HA-L7A is a headphone amp with a twist
• Mola Mola Perca
  Once again there’s nothing fishy about this innovative Dutch brand’s latest catch – a reference-quality stereo Class D amplifier netted into the Kaluga’s mono chassis
• Monitor Audio Studio 89
  Inspired by its long-running Studio series, born in the 1980s, this modern-day D’Appolito standmount also illustrates Monitor Audio’s long-term use of metal-coned drivers
• Auralic Altair G2.2
  The latest iteration of Auralic’s streamer/DAC boasts a new generation of the Tesla platform at its core, and an updated version of its ‘Lightning’ operating system
• WiiM Amp
  Industry ‘disrupter’ WiiM continues its campaign to shake up the audio scene with another comprehensively-equipped streamer, this time with a Class D amp on board
• Blok Stax 2G
  Produced under the watchful eye of Monitor Audio, Blok’s modular ‘hi-fi furniture’ combines acoustic engineering with contemporary design.
• Smetana Má vlast
  There’s more to this hymn to Czech nationhood than the familiar strains of Vltava, says Peter Quantrill, as he explores the history of the complete orchestral cycle on record
• Grateful Dead Terrapin Station
  The Dead’s first album for Arista saw them teamed with a producer and backed – without their knowledge – by an orchestra. Steve Sutherland preludes the 180g reissue
• John Lee Hooker …’n Heat
  In 1970 the ‘Boogie Chillen’ legend teamed up with young apprentices Canned Heat for a double LP. The result was 17 tracks of blues brilliance and the reinvigoration of Hooker’s career. But who’s that standing by the window on the cover photo?
• Mountain Studios
  A refuge for rock royalty on the run from HMRC, this facility in Montreux was used by Bowie, The Stones and would become Queen’s crown jewel. Steve Sutherland explains
• Are you receiving me?
  When it comes to Internet radio, Barry Fox knows from hard-earned experience that what works today might well not work tomorrow – particularly if your listening takes you around the world
• Nonlinear velocity
  Why does Barry Willis count himself as a ‘reformed record collector’? Because he can’t see past what he sees as the vinyl format’s inherent flaws, from groove distortion to velocity concerns
• Discs slipped?
  A recent encounter with a couple of new CD players had Andrew Everard engaging in a trip down memory lane. But first-world problems aside, he wasn’t too sure he liked what he saw
• Blurred outlines
  Music and art can often make an attractive mix for cutting-edge cultural collectives, but the combination is also fraught with plenty of potential pitfalls, reckons Peter Quantrill
• Hi-fi heritage
  Across six articles for HFN beginning in 1959, speaker designer Ted Jordan taught DIY enthusiasts the tricks of the trade – and his full-range Eikona driver is still going strong, says Steve Harris
• Sound Off!
  Correspondents express their own opinions, not those of Hi-Fi News. We reserve the right to edit letters for publication. Correspondents using e-mail are asked to give their full postal address (which won’t be published). Letters seeking advice will be answered in print on our Sound Off pages, but due to time constraints we regret we’re unable to answer questions on buying items of hi-fi or any other hi-fi queries by telephone, post or via e-mail.
• Sony D-421SP CD portable
  The iconic Sony Discman evolved into a full family of niche versions, including specific in-car and ‘Sports’ models, the latter designed for the beach. We slap on the factor 50!
• Out of this world
  John Atkinson clears space for a towering full-range electrostatic speaker from the Netherlands as Audiostatic’s Monolith II lands on UK shores
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• OFF THE LEASH! KEN KESSLER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS…
  Ken Kessler finds that, in some cases, he prefers listening to his music in mono rather than stereo