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Welcome to the December 2025 issue!
Taking our cue from the recent UK Hi-Fi Show Live, where brands from all over the globe assembled to show off their high-end wares (see our five-page roundup starting on p38), this issue proudly sources its contents from the very best of the UK and some rather farther-flung regions as well.

Among our reviews you’ll find the Nagaoka MP-700 cartridge from Japan, Poland’s Unitra GSH 630 Fryderyk affordable direct-drive turntable, the classy ELAC Concentro 2.0 M 807 four-way floorstanders from Germany and, from Italy, IK Multimedia’s ARC ON-EAR headphone amp/DAC and our cover star, Indiana Line’s Diva 6 floorstanders.

While political harmony between nations isn’t exactly at a high point right now, the hi-fi industry continues to thrive on cultural exchange and the creative benefits of such collaborations are perfectly evinced by this month’s Company Confidential. Wiltshire’s Chord Company (p74) was originally founded in a home in Salisbury in direct response to demand from an overseas distributor wanting high-quality interconnects for use with Naim Audio amps. Today Chord Company is internationally revered, going from strength to strength – just one example of what can happen when we all decide to work together.

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