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If you’re in the market for aluxury all-in-one music player, MarkLevinson’s N°519 digital audio player may just be the ideal media hub for you. It’s a wired and wireless network-ready DAC capable of handling 32/192 PCM music files with DSD support as well as CD playback via the front disc-loading slot. The black with silver trim aluminium housing is designed and built in the USA and the company claims it uses a pure path discrete, direct coupled, fully balanced, dual-monaural signal path for best performance. Around the back there’s a hostof digital connection options, including balanced, coaxial, optical and USB asynchronous inputs.

MartinLogan’s next-generation speaker series arrives in the UK

A quick glance at the product reviews pictured on the left of this page demonstrate that vinyl is still very much on trend as it continues to appeal to music fans of all ages and budgets. Vinyl is no longer a revival format, it’s the format of choice for an increasing number of us and Roksan’s Radius 7 turntable and Arcam’s rSeries phono stage are fine examples of the continuing stream of products available to fans in what is one of the most buoyant sectors of the audio market. For a format that appeared to be on the brink of extinction just a few years ago, its return to the mainstream has been meteoric with more products and LPs than ever to fuel our passion. Our support for the much-loved format is well documented in these pages and this month’s Destination feature visits Edinburgh’s best stores for crate diggers.

Neat Acoustic Mystique Classic floor standing loudspeaker, Austrian Audio The Composer headphone, T+A PSD 3100HV network-attached DAC/preamp, Audio-Technica AT-SB727 Soundburger portable turntable, a preamplifier Group Test and much, much more...

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JBL's 4349 standmount, Focal's Celestee headphones, Audio-Technica's AT-LP5X turntable, T+A's Caruso R network music player, six budget integrateds battle it out in the Group Test, Kate Bush Music Legend and much, much more...

Inside the May issue: Auralic’s Vega G1 streaming DAC, Hegel’s H590 reference integrated amplifier, Acoustic Energy’s AE120 floorstanding loudspeaker and Polk Audio’s UK-tuned Signature S15e standmount loudspeaker. Also, Music Legends pays tribute to Billie Holiday and Beautiful System looks at Kii Audio’s six-driver, DSP-controlled active loudspeaker while this month’s group test looks at six USB DACs from: Audiolab, Benchmark, Heed Audio, Leema Acoustics, Musical Fidelity and Mytek.