UK HI-FI SHOW LIVE

The UK Hi-Fi Show Live took place over the last weekend of September at the spectacular Ascot Grandstand, a venue so vast that noise between rooms could not possibly be the issue it often is at shows; indeed careful planning was required to avoid excess miles of walking between rooms at opposite ends of the venue. We attended on the Friday press day, enjoying a crowd-free run of the rooms before the public days at the weekend. Here are some of our favourites…

news SHOW REPORT Just one of the dem areas in the extensive suite for UK distributor Absolute Sounds offered three new arrivals from the US — from Audio Research, Dan D'Agostino Master Systems, and Wilson Audio. Dan DʼAgostino Momentum MxV Integrated Bill McKeigan, President of Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems, walked us around the new Momentum M×V Integrated amp, showing us something we'd never noticed before — that the green light for the needle/s goes white if you reverse the polarity. He also clarified the 'M×V' part of the name: this is not a model number as such. “No — M×V is just a moniker that we put onto the amplifiers, 'm' being mass, 'v' being velocity, the '×' being times — mass times velocity, the definition of momentum! So…

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