Hi Fi News

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.

DEC/24

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MBL Cadenza C41/C21 • A new addition to MBL’s Cadenza Line, the C41 is a digital-only DAC/preamp that boasts custom reclocking, digital filtering and a trick that side-steps ‘digital clipping’

Gryphon Audio Diablo 333 • Leveraging key know-how from its flagship Apex amplifiers, and replacing the original Diablo integrated, the Diablo 333 is more powerful, more flexible and yet more devilish!

MoFi MasterDeck • With two tried-and-tested belt-driven turntables already in its repertoire, vinyl maven MoFi dallies with a novel drive strategy for its heavyweight MasterDeck flagship

Vivid Audio Kaya S12 • The baby of Vivid’s five-strong Kaya range weighs just 6kg but employs the same custom tweeter and core technologies that define the flagship, floorstanding Giya G1

Marantz Model 60n • Replacing the PM7000N and styled to partner the CD 60 disc player, Marantz’s new Model 60n streaming integrated turns out to be a very lightly-trimmed Model 40n…

Focal Diva Utopia • Focal’s inaugural DSP-guided active loudspeaker is a true flagship, both in style, sound and under-the-skin engineering. But is this a one-off or just the start of a new range?

Quiescent T100SPA • A compact MOSFET amplifier module, designed in Denmark, is tickled-up with tech from ex-members of the Vertex AQ crew. So is this Quiescent unit a boutique barnstormer?

Hans Christian Andersen The Little Match Girl • There’s a lot more than the Disney comforts of Frozen to Andersen’s Christmas stories in music, says Peter Quantrill, as he explores different settings of a timeless morality tale

Sade Diamond Life • This genre-straddling, smash-hit debut LP from the British band laid down a template for others to follow. Smooth operator Steve Sutherland hears the 180g reissue

Bonnie Raitt Give It Up • A year after her self-titled debut set out Raitt’s blues/folk/jazz template, the singer, songwriter and slide guitar master decamped to Woodstock’s Bearsville Studios to repeat the trick. The result, mixing new songs and reimagined standards, was a classic

ICP Studios • Steve Sutherland invites you to shrink wrap ’n’ roll as he tells the story of a studio that once made plastics before producing classics by the likes of The Stranglers and The Cure

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