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Hi Fi News

Oct 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.

OCT/20

Marantz 12 Series SE • NEW SE DISC PLAYER AND AMP INSPIRED BY KI RUBY SEPARATES

Hi-Fi @ Home revisited • Steve Harris talks to a reader whose system we featured back in 2008. Before we find out what changes he’s made, here’s how things were…

HI-FI @ HOME – CATCHING UP 12 YEARS LATER…

EAT E-Glo i • The extension of EAT’s E-Glo range of valve phono stages into something bigger was inevitable, but not hurried – enter EAT’s first integrated all-tube amplifier, the E-Glo i

JOZEFINA LICHTENEGGER

Yamaha GT-5000 • The front-end to Yamaha’s ‘Gigantic and Tremendous’ 5000 series is not a digital player or DAC but a turntable, and one whose controversial arm harks back to the ’80s

PMC twenty5.26i • An unchanged exterior hides PMC’s crossover and driver upgrades made to its premium three-way floorstander

T+A P 3100 HV • With some sensible internal revisions, the German company has made its heavyweight preamplifier even more precise and detailed, without sacrificing any of the music’s soul

Hegel H95 • The new entry-level model in the Norwegian company’s amp range is a sensible mix of facilities and performance – or at least it would be, if the sound wasn’t sensational!

Paradigm Persona B • The baby model in Paradigm’s flagship loudspeaker range wants to prove good things can come in small packages

Rotel Michi M8 • It looks like the S5 stereo power amp, both inside and out, but the Michi M8 monoblock is altogether more powerful and, as a result, offers a sound with a charm all its own

Melco S100 • One of a growing choice of ‘audiophile’ network switches, this one comes from Digital Music Library specialist Melco. Can this work magic in any networked system?

Musical Fidelity MX-DAC • One of a trio of small but substantial add-ons, the MX-DAC joins Musical Fidelity’s partnering MX-HPA headphone amp and MX-Vynl phono stage. Is this another steal?

EISA 2020-21 HI-FI PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR

HOME THEATRE/PHOTO/MOBILE/IN-CAR

Shostakovich Symphony No 5 • Written under duress during four months in spring 1937, this would become his most popular work. Christopher Breunig sets out the background and suggests recordings

ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS

Getz and Gilberto Getz/Gilberto • Stan botches his store raid and is briefly locked away. Steve Sutherland listens to the Bossa Nova sax maestro as this 1964 Verve album is reissued on 180g vinyl

Tom Waits Blue Valentine • Waits once joked he wrote only two kinds of songs, describing them as grim reapers and grand weepers. And while this 1978 album was not a best-seller, it saw him refine his beat poet balladry by drawing on the blues, resulting in some of his greatest tracks

PRODUCTION NOTES

Alternate Format Discography

Dave Stewart • Perhaps what distinguishes this British-born producer is that he’s not only able to play a variety of instruments but is also a performer. And a hugely successful one too, having been one half of chart-topping duo Eurythmics. Steve Sutherland on Dave Stewart…

MEET THE PRODUCERS • BEHIND THE MUSIC WITH HI-FI NEWS & RECORD REVIEW

Great savings • when you subscribe to Hi-Fi News today

B B KING & ERIC CLAPTON

DIRE...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 164 Publisher: AV Tech Media Ltd Edition: Oct 01 2020

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  • Release date: August 28, 2020

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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.

OCT/20

Marantz 12 Series SE • NEW SE DISC PLAYER AND AMP INSPIRED BY KI RUBY SEPARATES

Hi-Fi @ Home revisited • Steve Harris talks to a reader whose system we featured back in 2008. Before we find out what changes he’s made, here’s how things were…

HI-FI @ HOME – CATCHING UP 12 YEARS LATER…

EAT E-Glo i • The extension of EAT’s E-Glo range of valve phono stages into something bigger was inevitable, but not hurried – enter EAT’s first integrated all-tube amplifier, the E-Glo i

JOZEFINA LICHTENEGGER

Yamaha GT-5000 • The front-end to Yamaha’s ‘Gigantic and Tremendous’ 5000 series is not a digital player or DAC but a turntable, and one whose controversial arm harks back to the ’80s

PMC twenty5.26i • An unchanged exterior hides PMC’s crossover and driver upgrades made to its premium three-way floorstander

T+A P 3100 HV • With some sensible internal revisions, the German company has made its heavyweight preamplifier even more precise and detailed, without sacrificing any of the music’s soul

Hegel H95 • The new entry-level model in the Norwegian company’s amp range is a sensible mix of facilities and performance – or at least it would be, if the sound wasn’t sensational!

Paradigm Persona B • The baby model in Paradigm’s flagship loudspeaker range wants to prove good things can come in small packages

Rotel Michi M8 • It looks like the S5 stereo power amp, both inside and out, but the Michi M8 monoblock is altogether more powerful and, as a result, offers a sound with a charm all its own

Melco S100 • One of a growing choice of ‘audiophile’ network switches, this one comes from Digital Music Library specialist Melco. Can this work magic in any networked system?

Musical Fidelity MX-DAC • One of a trio of small but substantial add-ons, the MX-DAC joins Musical Fidelity’s partnering MX-HPA headphone amp and MX-Vynl phono stage. Is this another steal?

EISA 2020-21 HI-FI PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR

HOME THEATRE/PHOTO/MOBILE/IN-CAR

Shostakovich Symphony No 5 • Written under duress during four months in spring 1937, this would become his most popular work. Christopher Breunig sets out the background and suggests recordings

ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS

Getz and Gilberto Getz/Gilberto • Stan botches his store raid and is briefly locked away. Steve Sutherland listens to the Bossa Nova sax maestro as this 1964 Verve album is reissued on 180g vinyl

Tom Waits Blue Valentine • Waits once joked he wrote only two kinds of songs, describing them as grim reapers and grand weepers. And while this 1978 album was not a best-seller, it saw him refine his beat poet balladry by drawing on the blues, resulting in some of his greatest tracks

PRODUCTION NOTES

Alternate Format Discography

Dave Stewart • Perhaps what distinguishes this British-born producer is that he’s not only able to play a variety of instruments but is also a performer. And a hugely successful one too, having been one half of chart-topping duo Eurythmics. Steve Sutherland on Dave Stewart…

MEET THE PRODUCERS • BEHIND THE MUSIC WITH HI-FI NEWS & RECORD REVIEW

Great savings • when you subscribe to Hi-Fi News today

B B KING & ERIC CLAPTON

DIRE...


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