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Martin Dew at Home Cinema Choice magazine has spotted a gap in the AV market that’s a perfect fit for the beautifully slender, high value Emotiva MC-1 processor. The says “In the shape of the MC1, the UK finally gets a fine-sounding – and well-priced – 13.2-channel audio processor that can set you off on an upgrade path. After all, if your AV room is all about movies and immersive audio, why pay for features

Hi Fi News’ Jamie Biesemans is captivated by MoFi’s SourcePoint 8 speakers in the August 23 issue. Loving the ‘coherence and pacing’ of this advanced point source design and finding its modest dimensions perfect for European living spaces he says: “Taking Andrew Jones’ devotion to coaxial driver design to a new level, the SourcePoint 8 packs a surprising punch for a modest box that’s suited to both small and medium-sized rooms. Pair these stylish, technically

Fair to say that in general, audiophiles are more comfortable with evolution than revolution, until they hear the difference. Such is the case involving Perlisten Audio, which in two years has sprung from obscurity to universal acclaim – from audiophiles. The secret is Perlisten’s Directivity Pattern Control (DPC) waveguided beamforming array of tweeter and mids, which, complemented by naturally fast lower frequencies, reaches higher levels of fidelity. Above 3kHz the tweeter at the centre of

July 23’s Hi Fi Choice magazine Group Test sees MoFi Electronics’ MasterTracker MM cartridge pitted against the best of the rest. Reviewer Neville Roberts says “I have heard this section sounding like a cacophony of noise in the past, rather than the tuneful assembly of notes that I enjoy with the MasterTracker…Overall, the MasterTracker is a, er… master tracker both in name and nature. It delivers a very musical sound that is easy on the

Hi Fi Choice regular Nick Tate (aka David Price) finds much to love about Perlisten’s R5M monitor in the July 23 issue. He says, “played at lowish volumes, it sounds clean and tidy, but up the level and a cathedral-like soundstage appears. Given plenty of watts, the R5m really disappears into the room and gives a huge, three-dimensional recorded acoustic with accurate image location. Better still, it holds steady on transient peaks, continuing to sound