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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Vinyl, September 2019
Ken Kessler  |  Nov 20, 2019
This month we review: Jennifer Warnes, Lightnin' Hopkins, Stacey Kent and Curtis Mayfield.
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, September 2019
Ken Kessler  |  Nov 20, 2019
This month, we review: Chet Atkins, America, Rhythm Art Duo and Lils Mackintosh
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Rock
Rock, September 2019
Johnny Black  |  Nov 20, 2019
This month we review: The National, The Hold Steady, Taffy and Mungo's Hi Fi x Eva Lazarus.
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Jazz
Jazz, September 2019
Steve Harris  |  Nov 20, 2019
This month we review: Joel Ross, Alan Barnes, Andrew Mccormack and Wes Montgomery
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Audiophile Vinyl
Classical, September 2019
Christopher Breunig  |  Nov 20, 2019
This month we review: Sibelius, Elgar, Mendelssohn and R Strauss.
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Loudspeakers
Klipsch RP-600M Loudspeaker
Review: David Price,  |  Nov 19, 2019
hfnedchoiceRedesigned from the ground up, Klipsch's all-new Reference Premiere series leverages over 70 years of loudspeaker history. We audition the largest of its bookshelf trio...

With no shortage of standmount loudspeakers vying for our attention, any newcomer needs to stand out from the crowd. And few stand out as boldly as Klipsch's £625 'Reference Premiere' series RP-600M, arriving from a company with an auspicious portfolio of exciting-sounding horn-loaded loudspeakers [HFN Jun '19], all dating back to the first ever Klipschorn model launched in 1946.

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Disc PlayersOutboard DACs
Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 T / Pre Box RS2 Digital CD Player/DAC
Review: Andrew Everard,  |  Nov 18, 2019
hfnoutstandingFar from being just cute and compact, Pro-Ject's Box Design range is now all grown up – as this high quality CD/DAC/preamp combination so vividly demonstrates

Considering where Pro-Ject's Box Design range started, it's come a very long way. It all began with a compact and very affordable phono stage, the original Phono Box, launched as an interface between the company's wildly successful lineup of turntables – which arguably spearheaded the entire 'vinyl revival' – and the amplifiers of the time, many of which had long since dispensed with inbuilt phono equalisation.

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From the Vault
Improving Groove Contact
Basil Lane  |  Nov 15, 2019  |  First Published: Aug 01, 1980
Basil Lane looks at stylus progress and the van den Hul tip

Carbon is one of the most common and versatile elements found on Earth. In its purest form it has the odd characteristic of being what chemists call allotropic. That is to say, it can appear in more than one distinct form of the same state.

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Hi-Res Downloads
Hi-Res Downloads, September 2019
Reviews: Hi-Fi News Team,  |  Nov 14, 2019
This month we review and test releases from: Bruce Levingston, Dominique Fils-Aimé, András Schiff, Doe Paoro, and Guy Braunstein, BBC SO/Kirill Karabits.
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Integrated Amplifiers
YBA Passion IA350A Integrated Amp/DAC
Review: Adam Smith,  |  Nov 13, 2019
hfncommendedBeing 'designed in France and built with passion', the IA350A integrated amplifier from YBA's Passion series promises high quality with more than a sprinkling of Gallic flair...

Agood hi-fi system should invoke 'passion' in the listener – be that an urge to crank-up the volume, to play an air guitar or wave an imaginary baton. French brand YBA knows this only too well, bestowing this particular moniker on its penultimate lineup of models. Coming in below its Statement units, but above Design, Heritage and Genesis, the six-strong Passion range also includes the PRE550/AMP650 pre/power amplifiers [HFN May '18].

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