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Oh, Vienna!

Not content with cracking the professional market, the Austrian newcomer impresses CliffJoseph with its first open-back cans

Zen master

iFi’s recently updated DAC and headphone amp promises a big spec at a bargain price. Ed Selley sees how it stacks up

Mighty fine Meitner

Ed Meitner is famous for the ‘custom DAC’ and crafting his own tech for 30 years. His latest model is a chip offthe old digital block

Floored genius

David Price gets to grips with six of the best mid-price floor standing speakers

YOU'RE surrounded!

Spatial audio has been around for years, but Apple’s new interest in high-quality audio could finally bring it into the mainstream, reckons Cliff Joseph

Shine on you crazy...

The latest member of the long-running series makes some significant revisions over its predecessor. Ed Selley adds polish

A bit of what you fancy

Copland’s CSA150 integrated is a tube/ transistor hybrid that’s more than the sum of its parts, says David Price

Sunny side up

A&K and Campfire collaborate on new high-end in-ear

This much is True

Affordable new true wireless earphone from Sennheiser

Passion for fashion

If there’s one thing you can definitely say about Bang & Olufsen it’s that it loves a collaboration. This month, apart from the Factory Records Beoplay A9 (see p129), it’s partnering with fashion brand Saint Laurent Rive Droite to release the limited edition Beosound Edge, a: “compact and powerful” wireless speaker offering what’s described as: “timeless design, cutting-edge acoustic innovation and unparalleled interaction for a listening experience that inspires the imagination.”

Over-ear at last

High-quality headphone imports from USA

Going out with a bang

The German company goes back to basics with this in-ear and CliffJoseph reckons that can only be a good thing

All fired up!

A revised version of its NP5 Prisma network player, Sweden’s Primare has unveiled the NP5 Prisma MK2.

The bigger brother

Top integrated in Rotel’s flagship Michi series leverages much of the P5 preamp and S5 power amp technology to realise a taller, heavier amp that aims to upstage the smaller X3

Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 cartridge

MOST SENSIBLE FOLK will have given up on the notion of owning the world’s finest moving-coil. Such a thing would be horrendously expensive and, of course, would require an equally esoteric head amplifier to go with it.

Campfire Audio Dorado 2020 £1,100

Could be the sweet spot in Campfire’s extensive range of high-end IEMs

California screaming

This Californian premier speaker brand’s flagship A series model is its most advanced ‘entry-level’ floor stander yet

Sennheiser IE 900 £1,100

Sennheiser’s new flagship IEM, fresh from a five-star review in last month’s HFC, is a class act

Oriveti O800 £800

Oriveti made waves when its OH500 won our last earphone Group Test, so is the O800 better still?

Audeze LCDi3 £900

It was unlikely that big hitter Audeze would produce a me-too IEM, but the LCDi3 is something else

Old and in the way?

Nigel Williamson celebrates the musicians still trying to rock into their eighties and mourns those who have recently and heroically passed away.

Brotherly love

David Price samples the smaller sibling in Merason’s range of DACs, the frérot

Astell&Kern AK T9iE £1,100

That A&K makes the best DAPs doesn’t guarantee mastery of IEMs, but it has Beyerdynamic on board!

Green light

As the lifting of Covid restrictions sees a return to normality, Nigel Williamson investigates how bands can start touring again without destroying the planet

All change?

The IE 900 could represent the end of an era. Ed Selley finds out if it’s a fitting finale

iFi Audio iSilencer+ USB audio noise eliminator

DIGITAL RECORDINGS PLAYED on devices connected to the DAC in your audio system via a USB cable can have problems resulting from electrical noise, which can manifest themselves as distortions, poor timing, pops and clicks.

Linn Majik LP12/Krane £3,500

With its origins set firmly in the Seventies, can this elder statesman still mix it with the young upstarts?

Acoustic Solid Wood MPX £3,500

German engineering meets stunning design to provide a lot of turntable for the money, but how will it fare?

DAC to black

As THX enters the hardware market with its debut DAC, Cliff Joseph checks it out

Nordost Heimdall 2 Power Cord

AS PART OF Nordost’s Norse 2 cables, this power lead employs similar technology and features to others in the Heimdall range, such as the Heimdall 2 Tonearm Cable+ (HFC 465) and Heimdall 2 headphone cable (HFC 440).