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It had to be the JBL Synthesis SDR-35! Because all of the UK’s major specialist AV titles agree. “If you’re building a high-end home cinema, the SDR-35 should be the first AVR you audition” says What Hi Fi in awarding its ‘Best home cinema amplifier over £3000’ gong for 2021. ” A fantastically cinematic sonic experience” said AV Forums in making the SDR-35 its High-end Receiver of the Year. “A multichannel audio performance that simply

Feb 22’s issue of audiophile bible Hi Fi News welcomes MoFi’s long anticipated UltraGold Moving Coil cartridge with an Outstanding badge. “Whatever adjectives the entire canon of hi-fi begs to use, one stands proud for the UltraGold and that is ‘fluid’. It’s not just the smooth conveying of liquidity in The Beach Boys album. It’s the consistency in the dynamic swings from soft to loud and back, the wholeness of the soundstage, the nature of

December’s issue of Hi Fi News mag features Mark Craven’s review of Balanced Audio Technology’s VK-80i all-tube integrated amp. He says “With David Gilmour’s ‘A Boat Lies Waiting’ [Rattle That Lock, Columbia;96kHz/24-bit], the VK-80i almost delivered more delicacy than my ears could process. The piano sounded resonant and natural, while the track’s background ‘seaside’ effects were conveyed with a gossamer touch. The multi-tracked vocal then seemed to just ooze from my speakers, phrases arriving and

We’re proud to introduce Mobile Fidelity’s UltraGold Moving Coil phono cartridge to the UK’s vinyl replay fans. Precision crafted in Japan and voiced by Spiral Groove founder Allen Perkins, the UltraGold MC offers analogue lovers the exceptionally wide frequency response, tonal richness, lifelike separation, and true-to-the-source faithfulness of a class-leading audiophile MC design. View the product HERE

November 21’s Hi-Fi Choice magazine is positively glowing about the BAT VK-3500 hybrid integrated amp, which balances tube finesse with solid state girth. The mag says: “Paul Oakenfold’s ‘Save The Last Trance For Me’ taken from his second LP, 2006’s ‘A Lively Mind’ comes straight out the gate at full-throttle…yet this slab of euphoria is peppered with surprisingly delicate touches, such as an isolated high-pitch woodblock that echoes serenely right-of-centre. And with a track where