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Dan dares
MONOBLOCK AMPS WITH EPIC AMBITION
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Next-gen Auralic
ARIES AND VEGA UPGRADES ANNOUNCED
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Route 66 for NAD
MASTERS SERIES GAINS FLAGSHIP ALL-IN-ONE
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NuVista integrated reborn
800.2 TUBE/SOLID-STATE HYBRID PACKS A 330W PUNCH
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North stars from MOON
PRE/POWER, NETWORK DAC AND INTEGRATED AMP COLLECTION
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Meet ‘The Converter’
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International times
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Döhmann Helix Two Mk3
From the man behind the iconic Continuum turntable comes this next-generation range, under his own brand, incorporating a ‘negative-stiffness mechanism’ suspension
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MartinLogan Motion XT F200
American marque’s flagship Motion tower is a three-way that showcases driver upgrades and a bold new aesthetic
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Yamaha R-N2000A
Marrying old-school Yamaha looks with new-fangled digital functions, the R-N2000A streaming amplifier offers convenience in a package to delight vintage devotees
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Aurender N30SA
Aurender’s flagship two-box network music library isn’t the traditional PSU/player you might expect. Instead, the functionality is elegantly split between data in and data out
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Exposure 3510 Mono
Long-awaited, while the monoblock version of Exposure’s 3510 amplifier series looks just like its Stereo and Integrated models, in practice it is a new and highly refined amp
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VPI Goldy
Informed by the design of Audio-Technica’s AT-OC9 pick-ups and tuned to ‘hit the midrange’, is VPI’s latest cartridge collaboration a no-brainer for its turntable owners?
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Epos ES14N
A mid-’80s audiophile favourite from UK brand Epos is reimagined by the go-to-speaker designer, Karl-Heinz Fink
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Edwards Audio IA1
The high-value Edwards Audio range from Talk Electronics now includes no fewer than four integrated amps, the IA1 also equipped with motorised volume and remote control
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György Ligeti 2001 and beyond
Peter Quantrill takes a personal journey through the music of a Transylvanian-born composer who defined the space age in sound and continued to discover new worlds
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Hanoi Rocks Two Steps…
This fifth album by the glam rock/hair metal pioneers from Finland (and Leamington Spa) should have been the start of something beautiful, says Steve Sutherland
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Buzzcocks Another Music…
Powered by twin guitars, pop-style melodies, hyperactive drumming and unusual song structures, this debut album from the youthful Manchester punks – now signed to a major record label – showed they were a force to be reckoned with…
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Gold Star Studios
From The Righteous Brothers and Ramones to Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, the music made in this LA studio still resonates around the globe. Steve Sutherland has the story
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Network fail
If your listening pleasure is reliant on the Internet then you should be prepared for connection calamities, says Barry Fox – and teach yourself how to repair a worn out Ethernet cable
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Peachy discoveries
From American ‘pop-art’ to Romanian harmonies and Spanish cover versions of ‘Tainted Love’, there’s a world of fresh music on YouTube that you’ve probably never heard, reveals Barry Willis
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Time for tea
Jim Lesurf wonders if there’s an engineering solution to his deafening kettle, and whether someone can invent a gadget that will turn his hi-fi volume down when the postman rings…
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Object of worship
Beethoven’s quill, a holy relic, the stylus from your first record player – they have more in common than you might think, argues Peter Quantrill, after watching one of television’s landmark series
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The best of the best?
Is the rise of the test pressing as the megabucks vinyl collectable of today to be celebrated, or is it simply another way to take advantage of naive audiophiles? Steve Harris gets into the groove
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TUBE TROUBLESHOOTING
TRACKING DOWN CAUSES OF FATIGUE
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BBC at work
READER REMEMBERS STUDIO MONITOR IN ACTION
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How best to clean a stylus?
PAINTBRUSHES, GELS AND VIBRATING BRISTLES… ADVICE ON SPRUCING-UP YOUR PICK-UP
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The ’70s super speaker
READER SHARES INSIGHTS INTO THE DESIGN OF THE MARK LEVINSON HQD SYSTEM
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Top down designs
READER SINGS PRAISES OF DOWNSIZED SYSTEM, BUT YEARNS FOR MORE…
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My retro resentments
REVIVED, RELAUNCHED AND REINVIGORATED, BUT SHOULD KIT REMAIN TRUE TO ORIGINAL?
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Make it shine
KEEPING A HIGH GLOSS FINISH IN TIP-TOP CONDITION
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Sony D-Z555 CD portable
With full-sized CD players stealing a march on portables in the late 1980s it was left to Sony to step up with a palm-sized marvel of a machine. How would it fare today?
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Avalon Eidolon speaker
After years of development, the US company has come of age with a design that’s a landmark in speaker engineering, says Martin Colloms
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Ken Kessler welcomes a renaissance of updated and improved versions of well-loved audio designs
