Stuff UK

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With a load of LED lights installed beneath the speaker’s surface, the Pulse 4 puts the ‘blue’ in Bluetooth by lighting up in sync with your tunes. There’s IPX7 waterproofing, and despite all that illumination it’ll still play for 12hrs. £200 / jbl.c

Future Music

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The Fusion modules employ valves as part of the circuit and this adds a rich warmth to the signal that some love. Valves introduce subtle variation into a circuit, where fluctuations can add some ‘life’ that digital components typically don’t. An int

Hi-Fi Choice

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PRICE: £230 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: RUARKAUDIO.COM Hot on the heels of last month’s R3 all-in-one review, Essex company Ruark has unveiled the fourth generation of its DAB/Bluetooth radio, the R1 Mk4. Available in a light cream laquer finish with ash han

Hi Fi News

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I’ve just read the review of the D’Agostino Relentless mono power amplifier [HFN Mar ’20]. Firstly, the doubling with the lowering of the load from 8ohm to 4ohm doesn’t happen. Even cranking up the input volume doesn’t help! When will HFN publish thi

Hi Fi News

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Marantz has kickstarted what it says will be a ‘new era’ for the brand by rolling out two hi-fi components with a revamped look intended to highlight its near 75-year heritage. Both the Model 30 integrated amplifier and SACD 30n disc player (£2700 ea

Guitarist

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I have a mid-sized pedalboard with a homemade plywood carcass, two plywood decks on split levels, power supply underneath and mostly concealed cabling below the decks. Being left-handed, I have hard-wired jacks in the left-hand side of the carcass so

Future Music

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> Soundtoys are letting you use their Effect Rack plugin – usually only available with the superb Soundtoys 5 bundle – for free, until 30 June. This is a powerful and creative multi-effects plugin that enables you to create processing chains using 14

T3

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LOST IN MUSIC Noordung also makes a Music model (approx £6,000), which boasts many of the same features as the Voyager but does away with the electric power, and the Individual, which offers you the chance to create a custom paint job With micromobil

Hi-Fi Choice

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For a company like IsoTek, creating reference-level products is a natural part of its development and ambition. The latest expression of this ambition came earlier this year with the release of the Super Nova in Germany. Showcased for the first time

Audio Technology

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RRP: $3299.50 per speaker Amber Technology: ambertech.com.au or 1800 251 367 Plenty of power. Well-tailored low end. Just enough DSP. AES digital input onboard. Hard to fault. With the Core series, Dynaudio has stripped back from the DSP-laden Air se

What Hi-Fi?

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View offers whf.cm/BBAudioCables Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2020 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analog

Electronic Musician

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The Fusion modules employ valves as part of the circuit and this adds a rich warmth to the signal that some love. Valves introduce subtle variation into a circuit, where fluctuations can add some ‘life’ that digital components typically don’t. An int

Hi Fi News

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Despite persistent rumours of the standalone DAC’s demise, the industry continues to provide us with converters with capabilities far in excess of any digital sources commonly available. MSB’s DACs fall into this category, and given the sheer brillia

South African Home Owner

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The season for sensational home entertainment is here – and it’s all the more fun if you have the right bits and bobs for that fully immersive experience. With so many products on the market though, it’s sometimes hard to know where to start. Let us

Stereophile

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It stands to reason that any audiophile system would benefit from improved AC power. The rooms in most older homes are equipped with a single duplex receptacle on each wall, maybe two per wall in homes employing more modern construction practices. Be

What Hi-Fi?

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View online review whf.cm/PickItDS2 Pro-Ject has been a dominant force in the record player market for decades, and over that time it has usually partnered with Ortofon cartridges to complete the package. So, the arrival of its own-brand cartridges c

What Hi-Fi?

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View offers whf.cm/BBAudioCables Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2019 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analog

Future Music

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01 It’s simple to create a sawtooth pad in Phase Plant. From the initialised preset, start with an analogue generator (which defaults to a sawtooth), add a touch of unison for thickening, and increase the attack and release of the output envelope for

What Hi-Fi?

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Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2019 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards

What Hi-Fi?

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View offers whf.cm/BBAudioCables Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2019 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analog

What Hi-Fi?

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At first glance, there seems little difference between Atacama’s Evoque Eco 60-40 SE2 and its Award-winning predecessor. But if you think that means Atacama’s engineers have been twiddling their collective thumbs over the past few years you’re wrong.

Total Guitar

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TYPE: Dual overdrive CONTROLS: Gain, tone, output, blend, crunch gain, crunch level (both internal) SOCKETS: Input, output, power TRUE BYPASS? Yes POWER: PSU or 9v battery CONTACT: Dunlop, www.jimdunlop.com ■

Hi Fi News

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As valves-vs-transistors perfectly parallels the analogue-vs-digital dichotomy, it seems logical that tube phono stages would better complement LPs than solidstate. This is not to say I’m an absolutist: my entry-level reference phono stage is the tub

Hi-Fi Choice

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More specialist outlier than household name in this group, Merlin Cables has actually been in business since 2002 and on a mission to recalibrate hi-fi cable performance-per-pound value at all price points. Well, all price points above the £370 you’l

Computer Music

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This is a variation of BC’s FreqAnalyst 2. As they say: “FreqAnalyst is able to display continuous variations even with a very high frequency resolution, thanks to its unique smooth interpolation algorithms”, so you won’t get a better picture of your

What Hi-Fi?

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View offers whf.cm/BBAudioCables Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2020 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analog

What Hi-Fi?

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View offers whf.cm/BBAudioCables Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2020 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analog

Future Music

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I’ve seen and read about people attempting a modular case build who have been confident with the woodworking aspect but whose attempts fail on the electronics. This is perfectly understandable and if you don’t wish to tackle this part of the build yo

What Hi-Fi?

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View offers whf.cm/BBAudioCables Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2019 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analog

What Hi-Fi?

1 min de citit

View offers whf.cm/BBAudioCables Best analogue interconnect under £50, Awards 2019 Few entry-level interconnects at the price come close to offering the sonic enjoyment that Chord has produced with this cable. Balanced/Single-ended Single Best analog