Exposure says it has added the ‘final piece’ to its mid-level 3510 series, with the launch of the £2500 3510 CD Player. Able to function as both player or transport, with digital outputs on Toslink optical and coaxial, the unit leverages the bespoke top-loading drive mech with sliding lid [pictured below] previously featured on Exposure’s XM CD [HFN Nov ’19]. Inside, a double-sided PCB hosts a bespoke clock, dual mono Burr-Brown PCM1704 DACs and a discrete analogue output stage feeding single-ended RCA connections.
Having previously introduced the 64-bit Tesla G3 processing platform to its Vega G2.2 DAC/streamer and Aries G2.2 digital server/player , Auralic has now turned its focus to the Altair range.
Powergrip’s YG3 ‘clean power unit’ has
launched in the UK priced £2799 and is
designed to manage mains distribution in a
multi-component system via 12 output sockets
rated...
Hi-Fi News | Mar 06, 2025 | First Published: Dec 01, 2024
‘Plug-and-play’ turntable with E3 cart and phono stage
Goldring has re-entered the turntable arena with the GR3, its first vinyl player in 20 years. The result of a collaboration with a ‘British hi-fi manufacturer’ – no prizes for guessing that means Rega – this new £699 deck features a built-in phono stage for plug-and-play use, and a ‘carefully matched’ tonearm pre-fitted with Goldring’s E3 MM cartridge.
As one more issue of Hi-Fi News goes to press under lockdown we give thanks not only to the frontline workers but also to the gift of music recreated by the equipment at the heart of our shared passion. This is a time to count our blessings and appreciate that ours is a 'home hobby' – to tweak, to play and to listen... and to keep us all sane.
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Chinese portable/desktop audio brand Fiio, winner of an EISA Award for its M11 Pro digital audio player, has launched a new top-of-the-range model incorporating AKM’s AK4191EQ dual-chip DAC for playback of 384kHz PCM, DSD256, and MQA files...
Hi-Fi News | Mar 06, 2025 | First Published: Dec 01, 2024
Signature 12.2 deck flies the Pro-ject flag
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.
Available now for £4195 in natural or black anodised aluminium, Lumin's P1 Mini adapts much of the core technology of the Hong Kong brand's P1 streamer/DAC/preamp into a new, compact chassis. Dual ES9028PRO DAC chips and a proprietary FPGA clock system are employed in a conversion stage supporting files to 384kHz/32-bit PCM and DSD512, via network or USB-B connections - further inputs are optical, coaxial and HDMI.
Matrix Audio's three-strong M series finds the digital music brand expanding into new markets with the £9000 MS-1 streamer joined by the £7000 MP-1 pre and £16,000 stereo/bridged mono MA-1 power amp. Claiming to 'simplify human-machine interaction'....
UK speaker maker Neat Acoustics
has leveraged designs from its
Ultimatum range for a new, more
affordable Momentum Jet series
debuting with the J-S standmount
and J-6 floorstander....
With its white baffle and walnut or black wood veneer finishes, Mission’s 750 is instantly recognisable as the speaker manufacturer’s latest ‘retro’ model, although unlike the 770, it is not a resurrection of an earlier design...
Not to be confused with one-time US loudspeaker brand Thiel, Germany's Thiele is a boutique turntable/tonearm manufacturer established in 2021 by Helmut Thiele. Formerly chief designer at Thorens, Thiele's own-brand debut TT01 deck and TA01 arm are now in the UK courtesy of distributor Absolute Sounds.
Billed as the result of ‘more than five decades of technological evolution’, QED’s Supremus Zr is the brand’s new flagship Signature series loudspeaker cable, and priced from £1399 (2m) to £2599 (5m), including termination.