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AVForums’ Editor’s Choice awards for 2023/24, which celebrate the truly outstanding products reviewed over the last twelve months, includes two for our partners at Ascendo Immersive Audio. The award for ‘High-End Home Cinema Speakers’ goes to a 5.1 system of ‘The TEN’ speakers as LCRs, ‘The SIX’ speakers as surrounds, and The 12 SUB. Scoring a maximum 10 for value for money in the original review, the system “is deeply impressive at any price and

In a hi-fi cable market notorious for its ‘snake-oil’ remedies, Germany’s In-akustik has set itself apart with technologies based on a ‘Physics not Voodoo’ philosophy. The affordable ‘Micro Air’ range, which uses air as an insulator is typically effective if the experience of audiograde.uk is anything to go by. Awarding Micro Air LS-104 speaker/NF-104 interconnect cables its best audio cables for 2023, the new review site says: “In-akustik’s Micro Air might just offer the finesse

The latest acclaim for Perlisten Audio comes from new review site audiograde.uk. Its best high-end floorstanding loudspeaker of 2023 is the Perlisten R5t. Reviewer-in-chief Andrew Simpson says: “Perlisten has made quite an impact since finding its way into the UK, and rightly so. The R5t sets the standard at its price and is sized just right for most homes, with a more than impressive driver array and build.” READ THE CITATION AND ORIGINAL REVIEW HERE

We’re delighted that Andrew Simpson at audiograde.uk has handed MoFi a twin award triumph: best mid-level turntable 2023 goes to StudioDeck +, while his best cartridge 2023 is the StudioTracker. Of the former he says: “…MoFi’s purposeful build and lush sonics make this the best deck under £1.5k by some way. With a flawless performance, its high-mass arm and cartridge are also a perfectly voiced combination.” Of the latter he says “MoFi’s StudioTracker impressed us

A Perlisten S4b speaker/D12s sub combo has inspired Hi Fi Plus Editor Alan Sircom to contemplate the meaning of hi-fi. In his review from the Nov 23 issue, he says: “…trying the full Perlisten system with the sub and the stands was one of those audio moments of epiphany…Remember the term ‘hi-fi’? It means ‘high-fidelity’; components that have high fidelity to the recorded sound. Somewhere down the line, we’ve settled for compromises, especially in the