Released in 1972, the Sondek LP12 turntable has became the flagship turntable from the compangy. A few days ago Linn has announced a more affordable revision of its model with a new power supply circuitry, Pro-Ject 9cc budget tonearm, and Linn's Adikt phono cartridge.

It will be available on March 25th in Japan for a price of $3,750 in five different colors.

Sony today unveiled its new PS-LX300USB turntable with USB output. Due in March for a price of $150 this turntable provides fully automatic operation of vinyl playback at 33-1/3 and 45 rpm speeds. It offers a belt drive system for reduced motor noise and rotational stability, in addition to a static balance tone arm with a bonded diamond stylus for precise tracking. A supplied moving-magnet phonograph cartridge and built-in phonograph pre-amp allows for compatibility with A/V receivers without a phonograph input.

The turntable comes packaged with Sound Forge Audio Studio software for simple professional-quality audio editing and production on a home computer, allowing for MP3 playback on portable music players.

Amazon.com offers a great deal, for only $899.95 purchase the Yamaha HTR-6080BL A/V receiver and get a free Thorens TD185 turntable.

The Yamaha HTR-6080BL is a 7.1-channel digital home theater receiver with 840 Watts of maximum power, it features Burr-Brown 192kHz/24-bit DACs, HDMI I/O (1.2a) with video up-scaling to 720p/1080i.The Thorens TD185 is a drive belt turntable with 3 play speeds (33, 45 and 78 rpm), it comes with an OM-10 phono cartridge, removeable headshell, and dust cover.

Due out in April for £275, the Harman Kardon TU 980 dual-band DAB/FM/AM radio tuner combines the distortion-free, CD-like sound of Digital Audio Broadcasting (THD 0.005%) with information-rich RDS FM, and features a bright, legible two-line display. You can control it with its own remote, or with the remote from most Harman Kardon amplifiers.

Danish manufacturer Tangent has added a fifth model of radio tuner in its range. The Cinque is the first Tangent's radio to offer both DAB radio and CD player. The CD player plays audio CDs as well as MP3 and WMA file formats. Compatible DAB and FM/AM version, the built-in radio tuner has 12 memory presets and auto tune function. Other features include an alarm clock with snooze function, a remote control and a 3.5mm input jack for connecting an iPod or other MP3 players.

Made up of wood, the cabinet comes in four different colors: Walnut, White Gloss, Black Gloss and Red Gloss. The Tangent Cinque will arrive this month in two different models, a non-DAB model will cost £239.99 while the DAB model will be £189.99.

Sony announced its two latest HD Radio products. They include the XDR-F1HD tuner and the XDR-S10HDiP (pictured) HD radio model with iPod compatibility.

The XDR-F1HD tuner transforms an existing audio system with an auxiliary input into an HD Radio receiver. The high fidelity HD Radio technology provides clear digital radio reception and FM multicasting. On its LCD display, the XDR-F1HD displays music information, including artist names and song titles plus radio station names and genres, where available, the unit also includes a wireless remote and will be available in March for about $100.

The XDR-S10HDiP adds an additional iPod dock designed to work with most iPod models, the included wireless remote features full access to the iPod player menu, as well as to radio tuning and volume functions. The unit also charges the iPod while it's docked and provides clock radio functionality. Sony's XDR-S10HDiP model will be available this summer for $180.

Cue Acoustics is a brand new US company launched to design and manufacture exceedingly high performance table-top audio devices incorporating beautiful industrial design and profound simplicity of operation.

Their first product to be introduced in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the TR 100 a bi-amplified 100W RMS two-piece AM/FM/iPod docking table radio.

There aren’t any other details on this iPod Dock yet but others Cue acoustics' Multimedia and A/V Systems are expected to come later this year.

The Rotel RT-1082 is an AM/FM tuner with RDS that can double as a digital audio broadcast (DAB) tuner. DAB offers more channels along with improved sound and crystal clear, noise free reception.

The RT-1082 features a 30 preset memory to store all of your favourite stations and is the ideal tuner for any audio system. Its RS232 interface also makes it the perfect choice for multi-zone installations. The Rotel's RT-1082 tuner comes with a remote control and is available from now for 850€.

NAD Electronics developed the Masters Series M4 Analog/Digital Tuner, the most advanced tuner NAD has ever developed will be introduced at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The M4 combines a highly sensitive FM/AM tuning section with the latest digital technology to extract maximum sound quality from the broadcasts it receives. This includes XM Satellite Radio as an XM Ready input on the M4 allows an external XM Satellite module to be easily connected. It features an "Auto Tuning" function which finds all the stations available in any given area with a 40-station preset memory and its associated remote control.

And for the electronic circuitry, the M4 has a double-tuned FM detector for low distortion and frequency response correction, it employs shielded MOSFETs designed to handle radio frequency signals in precise 0.05-MHz increments and the outputs own audiophile-quality TI/Burr-Brown digital-to-analog converters, TI/Burr-Brown operational amps, and separate power supplies for the digital control and audio stages.

The british manufacturer Revo comes with a new concept of digital radio with the claim of being the world's first product to offer consumers DAB/DAB+ digital radio, Wi-Fi internet radio and traditional FM radio in a single one-box solution. The BLIK RadioStation is also significant for being the first commercially available radio that provides plug-and-play reception of both existing DAB and new DAB+ broadcasts.

Steve Evans, VP of Sales and Marketing at Frontier Silicon said: "The combination of Wi-Fi radio, DAB, DAB+, FM and network music streaming capability will be a very powerful proposition for end users."

Priced at £149.95 BLIK RadioStation features full DAB and DAB+ digital radio reception, FM radio coverage with RDS, Wi-Fi internet radio (easy access to over 9,000 stations from around the world), full alarm clock functionality, a compact remote control and the ability to plug-in your iPod and use BLIK as a loudspeaker system for MP3 playback.