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This month sees our 400th issue, a special anniversary edition celebrating 40 years of expert hi-fi reviews and buying advice. In putting together this issue, I have come to realise just how significantly the world of audio has changed in an amazingly short amount of time. I was perhaps a bit too young to remember the very first issue of Hi-Fi Choice when it launched in its original A5 format back in 1975, but I do remember the music and sounds of the time that got me hooked, even if I was listening on a mono cassette radio recorder or my dad’s 8-track tape player in the family car. For anyone wanting to recall the era our Year In Music feature is just for you, and revisits 1975 with a comprehensive rundown of the bands and albums that defined the magazine’s birth year.

DETAILS PRODUCT Scansonic MB-1 ORIGIN Denmark TYPE 2-way standmount loudspeaker WEIGHT 6. 1kg DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 178 x 312 x 286mm FEATURES ● Ribbon tweeter ● 115mm mid/bass driver ● Impedance: >6ohm DISTRIBUTOR Dantax A/S TELEPHONE +45 982476 77 WEBSITE scansonic. dk Read the full review in issue 398 . .

Welcome to the June 2015 issue of Hi-Fi Choice – the essential guide to getting the best possible sound from your hi-fi, whether you're buying, tuning or tweaking. . . 

 Flicking through the pages of our latest issue shows that the LP usurped by CD in the mid-eighties is still very much alive and well.

Welcome to the May 2015 issue of Hi-Fi Choice - the essential guide to getting the best possible sound from your hi-fi, whether you're buying, tuning or tweaking. . . 

 With the continuous evolution of drive unit technology, the development of cabinet manufacturing processes and increasingly sophisticated measurement devices you’d think that we would have reached the pinnacle of loudspeaker design, manufacturing and performance and that loudspeakers would pretty much all sound the same.

DETAILS PRODUCTPro-Ject 2 Xperience SB DC Price£1,050 OriginAustria TypeBelt-drive turntable Weight7. 7kg Dimensions(WxHxD) 460 x 160 x 360mm FEATURES 9CC Evolution carbon-fibre tonearm New DC-powered synchronous turntable motor with electronic speed control Ortofon 2M Silver moving magnet cartridge DISTRIBUTOR Henley Designs TELEPHONE 01235 511166 WEBSITE henleydesigns. co. uk Read full review in May issue 397 .

DETAILS PRODUCT:Roksan K3 CD ORIGIN:UK WEIGHT:9kg DIMENSIONS(WxHxD): 432 x 102 x 380mm FEATURES ● Burr BrownPCM1798 DAC ● 1x coaxialdigital output ● 1x Toslink opticaldigital output ● 1x BalancedAES/EBU (XLR)digital output PRODUCT:Roksan K3 Amp ORIGIN:UK WEIGHT:14kg DIMENSIONS(WxHxD): 432 x 105 x 380mm FEATURES ● Quoted poweroutput: 2x 140Winto (8ohms) ● 5x line inputs ● 1x MM phono input ● aptX Bluetooth DISTRIBUTOR:Henley Designs TELEPHONE:01235 511166 WEBSITE:henleydesigns. co. uk . .