LATEST ADDITIONS

New from DALI are three models in the EPIKORE range that debuted earlier with the EPIKORE 11 floorstander. Once again there’s a choice of High Gloss Black, High Gloss Walnut and High Gloss Maroon colourways offered for the £9999 EPIKORE 3 standmount (plus £1999 for optional stands), the £19,999 EPIKORE 7 and £29,999 EPIKORE 9 [pictured] floorstanders.

Quad’s 33 preamp and 303 power amp, originally released 56 years ago [HFN Apr ’68], have been resurrected. Priced £1199 each, these ’24 editions showcase ‘faithful’ revisions of the originals’ transistor-based electronics and chassis designs, plus new features that better reflect 21st century hi-fi.

A successor to Pro-Ject’s Signature 12 turntable, the Signature 12.2 is the Austrian outfit’s new flagship design, and said to be ready to inform trickle-down models in the future.

In 1972, Bonnie Raitt told Joe Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle that she didn’t want to be a star. ‘The music business works to make you a star and I don’t want any part of that. I’ve seen the whole trip’. It was a theme she would return to in interviews, deeming stardom as ‘superfluous’ and having no interest in ‘the cult of personality’ that builds up around musicians. Instead, she enjoyed playing smaller venues so audiences could connect with her as they would do a friend.