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Hi-Fi News 19 July 2025 - 18 September 2025

Philips’ New Turntable Plays Vinyl and CDs – The Ultimate Retro Hi-Fi Combo?

Philips’ New Turntable Plays Vinyl and CDs – The Ultimate Retro Hi-Fi Combo?

A Vinyl-and-CD Hybrid for Modern Music Lovers Philips is returning to the home hi-fi arena with a unique combo device that caters to both analog and digital audio fans whathifi.com. The Philips Fidelio FT1 is a new turntable that not only plays vinyl records but also doubles as a CD player, blending two beloved physical formats in one sleek system. Looking much like a contemporary turntable, the FT1 hides a front-loading CD tray in its base, allowing listeners to switch from spinning LPs to spinning compact discs at the press of a button whathifi.com. This “two-in-one” design is being billed
18 September 2025
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Technics SL-1200GR2 Turntable Launch: Iconic Deck Reborn with Modern Upgrades & Audiophile Sound

Technics SL-1200GR2 Turntable Launch: Iconic Deck Reborn with Modern Upgrades & Audiophile Sound

Key Facts: Overview of the New Technics SL-1200GR2 The Technics SL-1200GR2 is a direct-drive turntable that marries the brand’s famous heritage with new engineering. On the surface, it looks every bit a classic SL-1200: a heavy, two-layer chassis (die-cast aluminum atop a BMC composite base) for optimal damping and stability techradar.com, a 332mm aluminum platter with full underside rubber damping, and the signature S-shaped 9-inch tonearm with gimbal suspension for precise tracking analogplanet.com analogplanet.com. The design is virtually unchanged from the outside – a 17.3×45.3×37.2 cm rectangular plinth with that iconic circular platter and controls laid out exactly where longtime users expect techradar.com smarthomesounds.co.uk. It’s available in all-silver or
5 September 2025
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Fluance Ri91 Powered Tower Speakers: $800 Soundbar Killers Simplifying Hi‑Fi

Fluance Ri91 Powered Tower Speakers: $800 Soundbar Killers Simplifying Hi‑Fi

Technical Specs and Design Features The Fluance Ri91 is a powered floorstanding speaker system built for both music and home theater use. Each tower houses three drivers in a 2.5-way configuration: a 28×35 mm Air Motion Transformer (AMT) tweeter for the high frequencies, plus dual 6.5″ woven glass-fiber woofers handling midrange and bass fluance.com. This driver array and an advanced Butterworth crossover yield a wide frequency range (down to ~40 Hz in bass, up to ~30 kHz in treble) with minimal distortion fluance.com. Fluance uses a built-in Class D amplifier rated at 150 W RMS total (75 W per speaker) to power the drivers,
27 August 2025
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FiiO JM21 Review & 2025 Audiophile DAP Showdown: The $199 Hi‑Fi Player Shaking Up Astell&Kern and Sony

FiiO JM21 Review & 2025 Audiophile DAP Showdown: The $199 Hi‑Fi Player Shaking Up Astell&Kern and Sony

Design & Build The FiiO JM21 breaks from the chunky designs of past FiiO players, offering a sleek, smartphone-like form factor. It measures about 120.7 × 68 × 13 mm and weighs only 156 g headfonia.com – roughly half the weight of FiiO’s higher-end M23 player. Reviewers note this is one of FiiO’s first truly “pocketable” DAPs in years, calling it “refreshing” in its compactness headfonia.com. The chassis uses a two-tone sky blue scheme: an aluminum alloy front frame for rigidity and a textured plastic back for grip headfonia.com stuff.tv. The build may not feel as tank-like as all-metal flagships,
26 August 2025
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2025–2026 Hi-Fi & Home Audio Gear Showdown: Amplifiers, Speakers & Soundbars Unveiled

2025–2026 Hi-Fi & Home Audio Gear Showdown: Amplifiers, Speakers & Soundbars Unveiled

Denon’s AVR-A1H is a 15-channel flagship AV receiver weighing about 70 pounds, delivering 150 W per channel with four independent sub outputs and 9.4.6 Dolby Atmos support. Marantz launched the CINEMA Series AV receivers, including the 9×110 W Cinema 50 and 11-channel Cinema 40, with 8K HDMI 2.1, Dirac Live upgradeability, and HDAM amplification. Yamaha’s flagship Aventage RX-A8A is an 11.2-channel AV receiver. Sony’s STR-AZ7000ES is a 13.2-channel 8K-capable AV receiver, built on a rugged steel chassis and introducing 360 Spatial Sound Mapping in its ES lineup. KEF LS60 Wireless speakers combine four force-canceling Uni-Core woofers, a Uni-Q driver array,
19 July 2025
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