Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life; Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again; Altus: Mythos; Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn.

Pearl Jam: Dark Matter; English Teacher: This Could Be Texas; Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with The Guilty Ones: TexiCali; Guided By Voices: Strut of Kings.

Mozart: Symphonies 29 & 33, Clarinet Concerto; Bruckner, Bates: Symphony No.7; Resurrexit; Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II: Carousel; Sibelius, Prokofiev: Violin Concerto; Violin Concerto 1.

The Focal Diva Utopia loudspeaker made its US debut in New York City this past week, showcasing the combined expertise of French and English partners Focal and Naim in their first fully active, wireless, and connected loudspeaker.

Focal and Naim Audio CEO Cedrick Boutonet and group marketing manager Réjean Bedel were on hand to introduce the Diva Utopia at Manhattan’s Par Excellence store located in NYC’s fashionable East Village and the Bowery, where the city’s derelict community once held sway, now replaced by hip cafés and bars.

The Internet of Things has arrived at the stereo rack. Many hi-fi systems are now connected to the wider world, controlled by phones and tablets. Complex front panels with many switches and buttons have practically vanished; those still around are retro pieces or style statements. Little front-panel touchscreens with complex menu trees have been rendered vestigial or at least redundant. Designers of receivers, integrated amplifiers, and DACs must now at least consider incorporating a streaming module and a device-control app. In certain component categories and certain price brackets, a built-in app-controlled streamer is now a key part of the value proposition, much as a tuner was back in the days of terrestrial radio.

The Hegel H400 combines the functions of an integrated amplifier, DAC, and streamer.