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Hi Fi News

Aug 01 2020
Magazine

Since its launch in June 1956 - two years before the commercial realisation of stereo - Hi-Fi News & Record Review has been delivering insightful reviews of the key products and technologies that lie behind our shared hobby... the passion of listening to music on the very best equipment available to the enthusiast. Every issue, Hi-Fi News delivers uniquely in-depth reviews of high-end audio equipment, including the best in vinyl replay and iconic vintage gear from the early days of audio. It is essential reading for all music enthusiasts.

Welcome

B&W 700 Signature • B&W’S 705 AND 702 ARE GIVEN ‘SIGNATURE STATUS

Audia takes flight • NEW FLS 9 INTEGRATED AMP FROM ITALY

Auralic evolves • NEXT GEN G2 AND GX STREAMING SOLUTIONS

Bricasti’s ladder • M20 PREAMP WITH DISCRETE RESISTER LADDER VOLUME

Every which way… • ELAC’S CONCENTRO S 509 IS A TWO-WAY, FOUR-WAY…

Franco floorstander • ICONIC LUTE-INSPIRED SERBLIN ACCORDO ESSENCE LAUNCHED

HI-FI NEWS? JUST ASK…

Hi-Fi @ Home revisited • Steve Harris talks to a reader whose system we featured back in 2010. Before we find out what changes he’s made, here’s how things were…

HI-FI@ HOME – CATCHING UP TEN YEARS LATER…

The new gig economy • As more groups turn to touring to generate revenue, Johnny Black casts an eye over the more innovative ways some bands are winning over fans

POP IN THE PARLOUR

LOCATION, LOCATION….

Goldmund Mimesis 15/Prana • There certainly aren’t many speakers that look like them, but these baby models – yes, really – in the Swiss brand’s wireless active range combine style with all-alloy substance

HIGH-END WIRELESS

VÉRONIQUE ADAM

Yamaha C-5000/M-5000 • Masters of retro chic, Yamaha has evolved its one-time flagship A-S3000 integrated amplifier into a fully-fledged pre/power. And there’s not a digital input in sight…

A HI-FI HISTORY

SIMON FEBEN-HARKNETT

LAB REPORT

Holbo Airbearing • An air-bearing turntable and a parallel-tracking, air-bearing tonearm in a single, easy-to-use package for under £7000? Devotees of both will love the Holbo Airbearing

PUMP IT UP

LAB REPORT

NAD M33 • Ever at the cutting edge of both analogue and digital Class D amplification, NAD’s new M33 is the first to utilise Purifi’s groundbreaking modules. All this and streaming too…

ULTIMATE CLASS D?

LAB REPORT

System Audio Legend 40 • This Danish brand, new to the UK, has made a name for itself on the Continent with its passive-to-active speakers

GOING ACTIVE

LAB REPORT

Copland CSA100 • In what is looking like it might be a trend – tube hybrid integrated amplifiers – Copland joins in with a Danish beauty at a sensible price, the all-singing, all-dancing CSA100

A QUESTION OF PHASE

LAB REPORT

T+A HA 200 • Close on the heels of T+A’s flagship Solitaire P headphone comes this appropriately luxurious partner combining familiar digital tech with a Class A headphone amplifier

CUSTOM DRIVE

LAB REPORT

Monitor Audio Bronze 100 • A foundation range for two decades, MA’s Bronze series goes for gold with the standmount 100

CUSTOM DRIVERS

LAB REPORT

Mozart The Last Three Symphonies • Were these meant to be heard as a single entity? Does the theory survive scrutiny? Christopher Breunig suggests library versions both ‘historically aware’ and traditional

The Rolling Stones It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll • Their 1974 riposte to criticism, which Steve Sutherland finds a mixture of downright goodies with a sprinkling of duds is remastered on 180g vinyl from pure analogue

Stevie Wonder Innervisions • Released in 1973, the singer’s 16th album marked his...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 132 Publisher: AV Tech Media Ltd Edition: Aug 01 2020

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  • Release date: July 3, 2020

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Languages

English

Since its launch in June 1956 - two years before the commercial realisation of stereo - Hi-Fi News & Record Review has been delivering insightful reviews of the key products and technologies that lie behind our shared hobby... the passion of listening to music on the very best equipment available to the enthusiast. Every issue, Hi-Fi News delivers uniquely in-depth reviews of high-end audio equipment, including the best in vinyl replay and iconic vintage gear from the early days of audio. It is essential reading for all music enthusiasts.

Welcome

B&W 700 Signature • B&W’S 705 AND 702 ARE GIVEN ‘SIGNATURE STATUS

Audia takes flight • NEW FLS 9 INTEGRATED AMP FROM ITALY

Auralic evolves • NEXT GEN G2 AND GX STREAMING SOLUTIONS

Bricasti’s ladder • M20 PREAMP WITH DISCRETE RESISTER LADDER VOLUME

Every which way… • ELAC’S CONCENTRO S 509 IS A TWO-WAY, FOUR-WAY…

Franco floorstander • ICONIC LUTE-INSPIRED SERBLIN ACCORDO ESSENCE LAUNCHED

HI-FI NEWS? JUST ASK…

Hi-Fi @ Home revisited • Steve Harris talks to a reader whose system we featured back in 2010. Before we find out what changes he’s made, here’s how things were…

HI-FI@ HOME – CATCHING UP TEN YEARS LATER…

The new gig economy • As more groups turn to touring to generate revenue, Johnny Black casts an eye over the more innovative ways some bands are winning over fans

POP IN THE PARLOUR

LOCATION, LOCATION….

Goldmund Mimesis 15/Prana • There certainly aren’t many speakers that look like them, but these baby models – yes, really – in the Swiss brand’s wireless active range combine style with all-alloy substance

HIGH-END WIRELESS

VÉRONIQUE ADAM

Yamaha C-5000/M-5000 • Masters of retro chic, Yamaha has evolved its one-time flagship A-S3000 integrated amplifier into a fully-fledged pre/power. And there’s not a digital input in sight…

A HI-FI HISTORY

SIMON FEBEN-HARKNETT

LAB REPORT

Holbo Airbearing • An air-bearing turntable and a parallel-tracking, air-bearing tonearm in a single, easy-to-use package for under £7000? Devotees of both will love the Holbo Airbearing

PUMP IT UP

LAB REPORT

NAD M33 • Ever at the cutting edge of both analogue and digital Class D amplification, NAD’s new M33 is the first to utilise Purifi’s groundbreaking modules. All this and streaming too…

ULTIMATE CLASS D?

LAB REPORT

System Audio Legend 40 • This Danish brand, new to the UK, has made a name for itself on the Continent with its passive-to-active speakers

GOING ACTIVE

LAB REPORT

Copland CSA100 • In what is looking like it might be a trend – tube hybrid integrated amplifiers – Copland joins in with a Danish beauty at a sensible price, the all-singing, all-dancing CSA100

A QUESTION OF PHASE

LAB REPORT

T+A HA 200 • Close on the heels of T+A’s flagship Solitaire P headphone comes this appropriately luxurious partner combining familiar digital tech with a Class A headphone amplifier

CUSTOM DRIVE

LAB REPORT

Monitor Audio Bronze 100 • A foundation range for two decades, MA’s Bronze series goes for gold with the standmount 100

CUSTOM DRIVERS

LAB REPORT

Mozart The Last Three Symphonies • Were these meant to be heard as a single entity? Does the theory survive scrutiny? Christopher Breunig suggests library versions both ‘historically aware’ and traditional

The Rolling Stones It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll • Their 1974 riposte to criticism, which Steve Sutherland finds a mixture of downright goodies with a sprinkling of duds is remastered on 180g vinyl from pure analogue

Stevie Wonder Innervisions • Released in 1973, the singer’s 16th album marked his...


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