Issue 106      July / August / September 2018

   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 22nd anniversary in 2017, 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
4 Editorial: Quality
Andrija Curkovic
Editor In Chief

6 AV News

86 Gadget News

Equipment Review
14 Piega Premium 501 - Loudspeakers 

16 PS Audio Stellar Gain Cell DAC & S300 – DAC/Preamplifier + Power amp

20 Lector ZAX 70 & CDP603 – Integrated amp + CD player

24 Philips 49PUS7503 – 4K UHD Android Smart LED TV

28 Bose SoundTouch 300 & Acoustimass 300 – Soundbar + Subwoofer

32 Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital - DAC/Preamplifier with MQA and DSD512 support 

34 Astell & Kern XB10 - Portable Bluetooth Amplifier with DAC

36 Magnat Quantum MT 520 - DAB/DAB+/FM tuner

38 Pioneer XDP-02U – Digital Audio Player

40 Onkyo TX-8250 - Network Stereo Receiver

MusicStyle
42 Van Morrison Astral Weeks: 
"Fifty Years One of the Key Achievements In the History of Rock"

46 Story of success: Alex Turner & Arctic Monkeys 

50 Parquet Courts: "Waves Of Life In the Sea of Boredom"

52 Rock / pop - album reviews

60 Jazz Interview: Linda May Han Oh

64 Jazz - album reviews

Film
68 "2001: A Space Odyssey" - Fifty years later

74 TV series: “The City and the City”

76 Portrait: Lynne Ramsay

80 "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" - 20 years from Guy Ritchie's debut movie

82 DVD/BD - movie reviews

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