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DETAILS Product:Devialet Silver Phantom Origin:France Type: Modular music system Price: £3,629 Weight:10. 5kg Dimensions(WxHxD): 253 x 255 x 343 mm FEATURES 3,000W internal ADH amplifier Internal DAC and wi-fi streaming upto 24-bit/192kHz Format support: MP3/AAC/ALAC/FLAC/WAV Ethernet and optical inputs Configurable for mono or stereo DISTRIBUTOR:Devialet UK WEBSITE:en. devialet. com Read the review here .

PRODUCT Q Acoustics 3050 ORIGIN UK/Germany/China TYPE Floorstandingloudspeaker WEIGHT17. 8kg DIMENSIONS(WxHxD) 298 x 1,000 x200mm FEATURES ● 1x 25mm softdome tweeter ● 2x 165mm mid/bass drivers ● Quoted sensitivity:92dB/1W/1m DISTRIBUTOR Armour HomeElectronics TELEPHONE 01279 501111 WEBSITE qacoustics. co. uk Read full review in issue 398 .

Pop quiz time. What’s the biggest growing sector within the hi-fi industry of the last four or five years? Bluetooth adaptors? Hi-res music streamers? Portable music players? No, give up? Would it come as a surprise if we were to reveal that headphones is the answer? Probably not given the fact thatthe rest of the page is filled with picturesof them. . .

In the not too distant past ‘proper hi-fi’ inevitably had to equate to stacks of similar sized and similar looking separates for it to be taken seriously by audiophiles. But with improvements in more efficient amplifier technologies – such as Class D – combined with the move to higher quality streaming from portable devices, compact hi-fino longer necessarily means compromised quality, as we’ve recently seen with Quad’s Vena (HFC 390) and NAD’s D 7050 (HFC 382) both of which come from companies with long-standing reputations for producing class-leading products. Like these two brands, PS Audio’s usual stomping ground also lies inthe high-end separates arena where its DACs and digital products sit alongside a selection of audio power plants. The Sprout is a different beast, representing the culmination of two and a half year’s work by sales director Scott McGowan, son of CEO and founder Paul McGowan.