Hi-Fi Choice April 2022

www.hifichoice.com Issue No. 487 April 2022 Anyone remember Money’s Too Tight (To Mention), the US recession groover released by The Valentine Brothers in 1982 and hammed up three years later by Simply Red? Well, it strikes me that MTT(TM) is the most appropriate anthem for 2022. I’m sure you’ve come to dread the rattle of the letter box as the post arrives as much as I have. In the past five days I’ve been informed by my electric, gas and oil providers that payments are increasing for providing the same service they were last year. And let’s not even talk about filling up the car. So, considering MTT(TM)’s an unfortunate fact, we are doubling down on our efforts to seek out the very best kit to suit what’s left in…

www.hifichoice.com Issue No. 487 April 2022 Anyone remember Money’s Too Tight (To Mention), the US recession groover released by The Valentine Brothers in 1982 and hammed up three years later by Simply Red? Well, it strikes me that MTT(TM) is the most appropriate anthem for 2022. I’m sure you’ve come to dread the rattle of the letter box as the post arrives as much as I have. In the past five days I’ve been informed by my electric, gas and oil providers that payments are increasing for providing the same service they were last year. And let’s not even talk about filling up the car. So, considering MTT(TM)’s an unfortunate fact, we are doubling down on our efforts to seek out the very best kit to suit what’s left in your pocket. Our…

PRICE: £7,000-£9,000 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: MELCO-AUDIO-MASTERS.COM JAPANESE SPECIALIST MELCO Audio has launched a new two-box digital music library, the N10/2, which it’s describing as: “the best-performing Melco music library in the company’s history”. The N10/2 is available in either HDD (N10/2-H50) or SSD (N10/2-S38) guises, with the former a direct replacement for the original N10 and the latter supplanting the previous SSD flagship, the N1Z/2EX. The libraries centre around newly selected drives: 5TB in the N10/2-H50 and 3.84TB in the N10/2-S38. The N10/2 also benefits from a new high-performance PCB, first seen in Melco’s limited-edition N10 45th Anniversary Limited Edition – now sold out. The N10/2 is a two-box design, featuring a half-width (215mm) chassis, enabling the signal-processing electronics to be kept separate from the power supply. The ‘head’ unit…

PRICE: £7,000-£9,000 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: MELCO-AUDIO-MASTERS.COM JAPANESE SPECIALIST MELCO Audio has launched a new two-box digital music library, the N10/2, which it’s describing as: “the best-performing Melco music library in the company’s history”. The N10/2 is available in either HDD (N10/2-H50) or SSD (N10/2-S38) guises, with the former a direct replacement for the original N10 and the latter supplanting the previous SSD flagship, the N1Z/2EX. The libraries centre around newly selected drives: 5TB in the N10/2-H50 and 3.84TB in the N10/2-S38. The N10/2 also benefits from a new high-performance PCB, first seen in Melco’s limited-edition N10 45th Anniversary Limited Edition – now sold out. The N10/2 is a two-box design, featuring a half-width (215mm) chassis, enabling the signal-processing electronics to be kept separate from the power supply. The ‘head’ unit contains the processing…

PRICE: £369 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: PROJECT-AUDIO.COM/EN HENLEYAUDIO.CO.UK PRO-JECT HAS ADDED a new series to its collection of turntables. The Automat range will be the company’s first fully automatic turntable series and its inaugural deck is the A1, which boasts “plug-and-play simplicity”, electronically controlled playback speeds (33 and 45rpm), an 8.3in aluminium tonearm with carbon fibre reinforced anti-magnetic headshell. A pre-adjusted Ortofon OM 10 cartridge with elliptical stylus profile comes bundled, while a built-in switchable moving-magnet phono stage makes it ideal for first-time buyers. The damped metal platter is designed to decrease wow and flutter, while the resonance-damped wooden chassis and silicon-damped feet offer extra protection from unwanted vibrations. It comes with a premium semi-symmetrical Connect-IT E phono cable, gold-plated RCA output connectors and dust cover. The A1 measures 430 x…

PRICE: £369 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: PROJECT-AUDIO.COM/EN HENLEYAUDIO.CO.UK PRO-JECT HAS ADDED a new series to its collection of turntables. The Automat range will be the company’s first fully automatic turntable series and its inaugural deck is the A1, which boasts “plug-and-play simplicity”, electronically controlled playback speeds (33 and 45rpm), an 8.3in aluminium tonearm with carbon fibre reinforced anti-magnetic headshell. A pre-adjusted Ortofon OM 10 cartridge with elliptical stylus profile comes bundled, while a built-in switchable moving-magnet phono stage makes it ideal for first-time buyers. The damped metal platter is designed to decrease wow and flutter, while the resonance-damped wooden chassis and silicon-damped feet offer extra protection from unwanted vibrations. It comes with a premium semi-symmetrical Connect-IT E phono cable, gold-plated RCA output connectors and dust cover. The A1 measures 430 x 130 x…