Setting up a living room hi-fi system generally involves getting to grips with cables, lots of cables. But the audio landscape has changed in recent years. Yamaha has introduced a new turntable that's designed to bridge the gap between analog and digital music formats.
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High-end audio house Bang & Olufsen has unveiled what's described as a compact wireless speaker. But with a 50.2 cm (19.7 in) diameter and chunky 13 cm (5.1 in) thickness, you'd need a very big living room to consider the monolithic Beosound Edge as anything but huge.
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Glasgow's RHA has announced what it's calling the world's first wireless in-ear headphone to use planar magnetic technology. Planar is pretty hard to beat in terms of accuracy, responsiveness and low distortion listening, which makes the CL2 earphones an interesting wireless proposal.
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Dirt and grime in the grooves can result in a less than crystal clear listening experience when spinning vinyl. Record cleaning machines can help, but if you don't have the time for regular vinyl maintenance the SugarCube SC-1 can help strip the signal of its snap, crackle and pop.
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Konstantin Mazin runs MazinCraft, a Vancouver-based company specializing in high-end custom timber interiors and home theaters. He recently launched a line of mid-20th century-style TV consoles under the MeiliAudio name, which should be great if they sound half as good as they look.
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Artur Mlynarz collects, repairs and restores classic hi-fi equipment. Sometimes though, units come in that are beyond help. Wanting to bring new life to vintage cassette decks, he mounted a smartphone into a broken player, and the MP3 Tapeless Deck Project soon followed.
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McIntosh Labs has been on something of a roll of late, releasing a slew of new products. It was only a matter of time before the company got around to adding a new turntable to its expanding catalog, and that time is now with the entry level MT2.
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Manchester-based GPO says it made one out of every 10 turntables sold during the UK's holiday period in 2016. Until now it's product catalog was made up of budget audio equipment, but it's now aiming at cost-savvy audiophiles with the new premium, yet wallet-friendly, PR range.
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McIntosh says that it's tapped into over 45 years of loudspeaker manufacture know-how to create a pair of 7 ft high audiophile pleasers. The XRT2.1K full-range speakers feature a total of 81 drivers for the promise of "spacious sound reproduction with an unusually deep sound stage."
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The Phantom looks like no other wireless speaker. At launch it put out 750 W of precision sound, and has since been joined by a 3,000 W Silver and 4,500 W Gold version – making the original look like a poor relation. Now Devialet has given the "entry level" Phantom a 60 percent peak output increase.
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