HiFi Media      July / August / September 2019

   Welcome to HiFi Media on Enjoy the Music.com! HiFi Media is a multi-media magazine that covers almost all aspects of modern audio/video media with particular accent on the music and film. We inform, test and review new products of the widest range: from audio/video/photo devices and gadgets to the newest music albums. We also cover all relevant related global events. The quality of our magazine earned us readers' respect in many countries, including the strong support of local distributors. HiFi Media began print publication in 1996 and have online readers in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, BiH and Macedonia. The annual "Zagreb Audio Video Show", the largest show of the kind in this area and celebrating its 23nd anniversary in 2018, is closely connected to the publisher of the HiFi Media, and as the main sponsor. HiFi Media stresses that both the magazine and AV Show are the most influential institution in the home-entertainment segment at our location within Europe.

Articles & Reviews In This Issue
3 Editorial... Casual
Fun with music and movies this summer.
Editorial By Andrija Ćurković

6 AV News

86 Gadget News

90 Danko Suvar
"Rudy Van Gelder Studio" – (New York Column)

Equipment Reviews
20 Pioneer A-40AE Integrated amplifier 

22 Audiovector QR 5 Loudspeaker

26 Grado Gold2 Turntable Phono Cartridge
Old Grado favorite in improved edition!
Review By Danko Suvar, Technical Editor of hifimedia magazine
Grado Gold2 is a cartridge with excellent timbral and frequency balance, and well balanced overall, sounds calm and well controlled, but at the same time it follows very well the dynamic and rhythm changes in music material, and all that without adding any (unnecessary) emphasis of high frequency content with the goal of creating more "openness" in sound. Grado Labs, established in 1953, is one of the oldest turntable cartridge manufacturers still in business.
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30 Marantz SR8012 AV receiver

34 Bose Lifestyle 650 Home Entertainment system

38 McIntosh RS200 Wireless Loudspeaker System

40 Focal Elegia Headphones

42 Cyrus ONElinear Loudspeaker

44 Sonus Faber Pryma 01 Headphones

46 Marshal Acton & Stanmore
Wireless Multi-Room speakers 

48 Audeze Mobius
Premium 3D Gaming Headset with Surround Sound

50 Q Acoustics 3020i Loudspeaker

MusicStyle
52 Elton John "Rocketman"
"A paid retirement for a big pop worker"

56 In Memoriam: Dr. John (1940 – 2019)
"A pianist wizard of New Orleans"

60 Mercury Rev vs. Bobbie Gentry
"The Deep South Drama"

62 Rock / Pop Album Reviews

68 Jazz Interview: Branford Marsalis
"We always play it as if it was our last concert in life"

72 Jazz - album reviews

Film
76 Portrait: Peter Dinklage
"Acting from a different perspective"

74 Alien
"40 years since the first Alien"

82 DVD/BD - Movie Reviews 

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