Hi-Fi Choice February 2022

www.hifichoice.com Issue No. 485 February 2022 Close your eyes for a moment and imagine you’ve entered a competition to win a $18 millionplus Bugatti La Voiture Noire, the world’s most expensive car, and you’ve won! So here you are, on your first visit to fill her up at the local petrol station. You’re not gonna buy that low-grade, cheap petrol, right? Well a similar principle holds when it comes to that dream hi-fi setup you’ve been saving up for. You could, of course, use the cabling that comes bundled or you could splash out just a little more and add some interconnects that will be most sympathetic to your new kit and coax the very best sound out of it. Where to begin? You could do worse than turn to…

www.hifichoice.com Issue No. 485 February 2022 Close your eyes for a moment and imagine you’ve entered a competition to win a $18 millionplus Bugatti La Voiture Noire, the world’s most expensive car, and you’ve won! So here you are, on your first visit to fill her up at the local petrol station. You’re not gonna buy that low-grade, cheap petrol, right? Well a similar principle holds when it comes to that dream hi-fi setup you’ve been saving up for. You could, of course, use the cabling that comes bundled or you could splash out just a little more and add some interconnects that will be most sympathetic to your new kit and coax the very best sound out of it. Where to begin? You could do worse than turn to p30 and…

PRICE: £1,200 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: REGA.CO.UK REGA IS INTRODUCING a new all-in-one, ready-to-go-right-out-of-the-box analogue setup, the Rega System One comprising a Planar 1 turntable, io integrated amp, Kyte speakers, a mini remote plus 3m of Rega speaker cables. The Planar 1 turntable is a plug-and-play design incorporating Rega’s handmade RB110 tonearm, with pre-set bias and factory-fitted Carbon cartridge. The company claims setup: “is possible in under 30 seconds”. It weighs 4.2kg and measures 447 x 117 x 360mm (WxHxD). Tested back in HFC 475, the io integrated uses the same amplifier stage as the Brio (HFC 446) now re-designed to run at 30W per channel into 8ohm loads. The io features two line-level inputs, a high specification Rega moving-magnet phono stage and a high-quality headphone output. It weighs in at 2.9kg…

PRICE: £1,200 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: REGA.CO.UK REGA IS INTRODUCING a new all-in-one, ready-to-go-right-out-of-the-box analogue setup, the Rega System One comprising a Planar 1 turntable, io integrated amp, Kyte speakers, a mini remote plus 3m of Rega speaker cables. The Planar 1 turntable is a plug-and-play design incorporating Rega’s handmade RB110 tonearm, with pre-set bias and factory-fitted Carbon cartridge. The company claims setup: “is possible in under 30 seconds”. It weighs 4.2kg and measures 447 x 117 x 360mm (WxHxD). Tested back in HFC 475, the io integrated uses the same amplifier stage as the Brio (HFC 446) now re-designed to run at 30W per channel into 8ohm loads. The io features two line-level inputs, a high specification Rega moving-magnet phono stage and a high-quality headphone output. It weighs in at 2.9kg and measures…

PRICE: £1,600 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: AUDIOLAB.CO.UK AUDIOLAB IS LAUNCHING a new all-in-one, just-add-speakers music system, the Omnia. Housed in an aluminium enclosure, it features an integrated CD player, inputs for external sources – including a phono stage for a turntable – hi-res network streaming, the ability to form part of a synchronised multi-room system and amplification – which the company says is high quality enough: “to make the most of whichever speakers or headphones the user chooses to partner it with”. Billed as: “The ideal system for every music source”, the Omnia offers hi-res network streaming supported over dual-band wi-fi and Ethernet, alongside Bluetooth for wireless reception from smartphones, tablets and so on, plus an integrated CD player incorporating a high-precision optical system and low-friction loading tray, with an electronic data buffer…

PRICE: £1,600 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: AUDIOLAB.CO.UK AUDIOLAB IS LAUNCHING a new all-in-one, just-add-speakers music system, the Omnia. Housed in an aluminium enclosure, it features an integrated CD player, inputs for external sources – including a phono stage for a turntable – hi-res network streaming, the ability to form part of a synchronised multi-room system and amplification – which the company says is high quality enough: “to make the most of whichever speakers or headphones the user chooses to partner it with”. Billed as: “The ideal system for every music source”, the Omnia offers hi-res network streaming supported over dual-band wi-fi and Ethernet, alongside Bluetooth for wireless reception from smartphones, tablets and so on, plus an integrated CD player incorporating a high-precision optical system and low-friction loading tray, with an electronic…