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Investigation
Valves: ready to roll?
Steve Harris  |  Dec 01, 2018  |  First Published: Feb 12, 2019
Thinking about tweaking your valve amp by swapping out the tubes? Steve Harris has the inside track on the payoffs and pitfalls of tube rolling…
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Pre/Power AmplifiersVintage
Myst TMA3 amplifier
Review: David Price,  |  Nov 01, 2018
hfnvintage.pngBack in the '80s, several British 'cottage industry' companies made integrated amps for purist customers, but this is surely the most 'mysterious'. How will it sound today?

In hi-fi as in life, the 1980s was a transformative time. From speaker stands and audiophile speaker cable, to mini monitors and expensive, minimalist integrated amps – the 'go for it' decade of Filofaxes, red braces and VW Golf GTis showed us what was to come.

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Investigation
Keeping it Simple
Barry Fox  |  Nov 01, 2018
Barry Fox takes the stress out of connecting your hi-fi to the Internet

My shiny new hi-fi has all the usual knobs, buttons and meters on the front, and all the usual analogue and digital input and output sockets on the rear. But there's also what looks like an overgrown telephone socket on the back, labelled 'Ethernet'.

I'm assuming that this is for service engineers or connecting the component to a PC, which I don't want to do. I just want to continue listening to my music from high quality sources, through my trusty big box speakers, without getting into the hassle of computing.

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Classical
Classical (November 2018)
Christopher Breunig  |  Nov 01, 2018
This month we review: Schubert, Bruch, Ravel/Gershwin, and Mozart.
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Jazz
Jazz (November 2018)
Steve Harris  |  Nov 01, 2018
This month we review: Soft Machine, Bansangu Orchestra, Tony Kofi and The Organisation, and New York All-Stars.
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Rock
Rock (November 2018)
Johnny Black  |  Nov 01, 2018
This month we review: Josh Taerk, The Molochs, Epic45, and Texti-tv 666.
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital (November 2018)
Ken Kessler  |  Nov 01, 2018
This month, we review: Eleanor Mcevoy, The Flying Burrito Bros, Glenn Frey, and Spirit.
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Vinyl (November 2018)
Ken Kessler  |  Nov 01, 2018
This month we review: Buffalo Springfield, Paul Rodgers, Ultimate Spinach, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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Hi-Res Downloads
Hi-Res Downloads (November 2018)
Reviews: Hi-Fi News Team,  |  Nov 01, 2018
This month we review and test: Czech PO/Jiri Belohlavek, Trygve Seim, Alexis Ffrench, Huw Wiggin And John Lenehan, and Arianna Neikrug.
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Vinyl Icons
Donald Fagen The Nightfly
Johnny Black  |  Nov 01, 2018
After his split from Walter Becker in 1981, the New Jersey-born vocalist and composer struck out on his own with The Nightfly, one of the first albums to be recorded digitally. The result was a treat for audiophile ears and platinum sales both here and in the US

Having established himself in the 1970s as half of the acclaimed thinking person's rock duo Steely Dan, Donald Fagen became a solo performer in 1981 when his partnership with Walter Becker fell apart.

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