Each year, US audio magazine Stereophile puts the world’s top hi-fi through its paces, with reviews that are “the most thorough evaluation that product will receive outside the manufacturer’s development lab.” The handful of products that are then selected for an annual Award are therefore a very special few indeed.

Joint winner of ‘Analog Component of the Year’ is Clearaudio’s Reference Jubilee turntable, reviewed by Ken Micallef in July 2022.

It “sounded like nothing ever heard here in my urban listening salon,” wrote Micallef. “The Reference Jubilee’s sound combined vivid detail retrieval, forceful dynamics, a delicate, refined top end and a translucent midrange.”

“Levels of resolution, clarity, transparency, and trueness-to-source left me vinyl-shocked and thinking, ‘So that’s what’s on this recording.’ … Records surrendered their secrets, their inner lives, their time-secured, soul-charged beauty.”

“I didn’t just hear more music; I heard more life force, a deeper recorded experience.”

Read Ken Micallef’s review in full at www.stereophile.com/content/clearaudio-reference-jubilee-record-player

Find out more at clearaudio.de/en and, to locate your nearest dealer, contact UK distributor www.soundfowndations.co.uk

Discover the complete list of Stereophile Product of the Year Award winners 2022 at www.stereophile.com/content/stereophiles-products-2022