UHF No 70 (Net).indd - Ultra High Fidelity Magazine

Issue No. 70
Cover story: The ultimate SACD (and everything else)
player, the Linn Unidisk 1.1. Behind it is the very
bright Rho Ophiuchi star (the blue one), and the M4
global cluster (purplish, at lower right).
Cinema
Future screens 19
Can you buy the perfect video screen? Perhaps
not yet, but UHF looks at what’s here…and what’s
coming.
Features
How SACD Won the War 22
Or, to put it another way, how DVD-Audio blew it
big time
Montreal 2004 26
by Gerard Rejskind
UHF exhibits, and we take a look around too
Touring with Witnesses 28
by Albert Simon
Albert plays sherpa to a couple of audiophiles at this
biggest of electronics shows for consumers
The Listening Room
Linn Unidisk 1.1 31
Is this the source component audiophiles have been
waiting for all this time? It looks that way!
Shanling SCD-T200 36
It plays SACDs. It plays CDs too. It could even be
the player you’ve saved up for.
Equation 25 Speakers 39
They’re good enough to have been contenders as
a reference, and you know what? They very nearly
made it.
Reference 3a Royal Virtuoso 42
A renewed version of an old favorite. And we do
mean favorite!
Wilson Benesch Curve 45
Diamonds are made from carbon. So are humans
if you add water. And so are the cabinets of these
speakers.
muRata Super Tweeters 49
Speakers that take up where your ears leave off
Simaudio Moon W-5LE Power Amp 50
Specially built for you and 249 other lucky people
Goldring GR1 Turntable 52
It’s hard to fi nd a good phono cartridge at this
price. This one comes with a turntable and arm.
Apple iPod 54
Can it also be a poor man’s music server?
Software
Gershwin Forever! 56
by Reine Lessard
Life is short, art is long. Gershwin’s life and legacy
are the proof
Record Reviews 62
by Reine Lessard and Gerard Rejskind
Departments
Editorial 2
Feedback 5
Free Advice 7
Classifi ed Ads 66
Gossip & News 69
State of the Art 72
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