In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Hifi News (UK)

• Nagra sets the stage
  MANUFACTURER GOES COMPACT WITH PLUG ’N’ PLAY PHONO PREAMP FOR MC CARTS
• Valves for vinyl
  MUSICAL FIDELITY EXPANDS NU-VISTA RANGE
• Triangle Capella 2
  ACTIVE WIRELESS STANDMOUNTS UNVEILED
• Piega’s Premium flagship
  REVISED RIBBON FOR SIX-DRIVER, THREE-WAY FLOORSTANDER
• UK-made titanium arm
  CONNECTED-FIDELITY CF-1010 READY TO PARTNER TT HUB DECK
• Lumin DAC has X appeal
  TWO-BOX RANGE-TOPPER REBORN WITH CUSTOM CONVERSION
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• Lights, camera, action… music!
  Bob Dylan, fire-breathing dragons and a certain bespectacled wizard… Ken Kessler spotlights 20 recent stage and screen soundtrack albums available on vinyl and SACD
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• Quad ESL 2912X
  As old as Hi-Fi News itself, Quad’s iconic full-range electrostatic stays fresh courtesy of new upgrades
• Halcro Equinox
  Aussie brand Halcro is in no rush – three years after the rebirth of its iconic turn-of-the-century Eclipse power amp, it has released a partnering preamp. Line-only, of course!
• AVID Relveo/Altus V2
  This Cambridge-based turntable brand celebrates its 30th anniversary in style – the Relveo is its first ‘new’ deck design in 12 years, complete with 2nd-gen Altus tonearm
• dCS Varèse Transport
  Completing the now six-box Varèse ‘stack’, dCS’s latest CD/SACD transport caters for those who want physical media as well as streaming. But does it have a ‘sound’?
• AudioSolutions Figaro M2
  New to the UK is this Lithuanian speaker brand with an artisanal approach. We hear its mid-level floorstander
• Canor Virtus A3
  Celebrating 30 years since the launch of its first amplifier, Canor’s latest ‘Performance Line’ model is a novel tube/transistor integrated with touchscreen volume rotary
• DALI Kupid
  From the Danish loudspeaker brand that brought us the £85k KORE flagship comes this colourful pint pot with an arrow aimed straight at the heart of the budget scene
• Topping D900
  Chinese brand Topping is a hi-fi forum favourite – with its flagship DAC packed with innovative technology and selling for under £2k, its reputation looks to be deserved
• Atlas Ailsa Duo OCC
  Scottish cables are made from stern stuff, and Atlas has created three ranges to match your system’s mettle.
• Biber Rosary Sonatas
  The summit of solo-violin writing before Bach, this 17th century cycle of devotional sonatas attracts highly individual responses on record, finds Peter Quantrill
• ZZ Top Tres Hombres
  Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard broke things wide open with this 1973 LP that corralled a mixture of blues, country and R&B into a new-fangled, rock’n’ roll stew. Just don’t mention the 1980s re-recorded version that sought to give it an MTV polish…
• The old grey whistle test
  Artificial Intelligence appears to be here to stay, despite its ‘hallucinations’. When it comes to music, however, Barry Fox is yet to be convinced it knows how to write a catchy tune
• Enjoyment comes first
  Suffering from Critical Listening Syndrome? To be fully engaged in your music, says Barry Willis, you need to stop worrying about every aspect of the system sound – or you’ll never be happy
• Communication breakdown
  Jim Lesurf’s quest to unearth more information about the early days of UK hi-fi led him to the British Library. Then came a paradoxical situation straight out of the pages of Catch 22
• Nothing to be afraid of
  When modern art is big business and critically lauded, why does modern music upset and even enrage many listeners? Peter Quantrill discovers a book that promises an answer
• When old meets new
  Steve Harris on ‘analogue layback’ mastering for digital recordings, plug-ins that ‘vintagise’ music at the touch of a button, and why some engineers still prefer to use good old tape
• Aiwa AP-D50 turntable
  Launched two years before the advent of CD, Aiwa’s AP-D50 was the world’s first automatic front-loading turntable with photoelectric auto-return mechanism
• Pierre Lurné J1/SL5
  Martin Colloms applauds the polished performance of this French-made belt-drive turntable and matching ‘pseudo-unipivot’ linear-tracking arm
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• OFF THE LEASH! KEN KESSLER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS…
  Ken Kessler is delighted to find that a major music label has started to make open-reel tape reissues