(This feature has been dragged out of the archives for you, back when downloads were a significant force in the industry, I think it retains relevance in these days of streaming…
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Title: Blood On the Tracks Label: Columbia You know, there are many classic LPs out there but there are far fewer classic albums. Let me explain, this Bob Dylan album sits…
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Pro-Ject refine its record cleaning machine designs with two new offerings The two new record cleaning machines, the VC-E & VC-S2 from Pro-Ject… VC-E …features an aluminium surface which will help to…
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Furutech has added three new IEC models, which are positioned just under the range topping FI-50 The trio’s pure copper IEC conductors are (as their names suggest) plated with gold, silver…
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Brief commentary of vinyl releases from Third Man, Sound Miracles and Charly THIRD MAN New from the US-based outfit (thirdmanstore.com) is two from the Live at series. Firstly the hip hop-slanted…
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Brief commentary of vinyl releases from Speakers Corner New from this quality German audiophile outfit (www.speakerscornerrecords.com) is Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh (1955), playing alto and tenor saxes accompanied by Kenny Clarke…
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Consisting of four new earphone designs covering the T5 True Wireless, T5 Sport, T5 Neckband and T5 M Wired Klipsch True Wireless (£175) Arriving in its Zippo-style carry case acts as a…
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The C2700 is only the second McIntosh product to feature the newly launched DA2, upgradeable DAC that includes an audio-only HDMI Audio Return Channel (ARC) and native DSD512/DXD 384kHz playback over…
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Title: Worldwide Discography & Price Guide Authors: Ulrich Klatte & Marcel Koopman Price: €35 Vertigo was an imprint of the Philips/Phonogram record label started in 1969 by Olav Wyper, covering both…
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Title: Whatever and Ever Amen Label: Edsel Well, not five exactly. Three. Just the three. Ben Folds himself plus Robert Sledge on bass and Darren Jessee on drums. They were witty,…
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The Danish outfit has released a dual mono, “pure line” preamplifier with two balanced XLR inputs and three single-ended phono inputs Apparently, the only cables in the box are a short…
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Brief commentary of vinyl releases from Bandcamp, Sireena, Baco, Khanti and more… A fond look backwards at black music can be found on Joseph Malik’s Diverse Part 2 (ramrock.bandcamp.com). From classic…
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Kimber has now announced the Carbon 8 and Carbon 16 loudspeaker cables As with the interconnect cable, the speaker cable features an electrostatically dissipative carbon polymer between the Teflon dielectric and…
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The new phono amplifier includes fixed and variable loading for moving coil cartridges, fully adjustable from the remote control Based on a series of discrete FETs in a Class A circuit, the…
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Working with Jerry Harvey Audio, the Layla AION earphones are manufactured in Orlando, Florida from a carbon fibre block The Layla earphones are powered by soundrIVe. That’s 12 Drivers per side:…
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Mu-so Qb gains the new 2nd Generation illuminated volume dial, complete with a full control array and a proximity sensor: it lights up as your hand approaches it. Mu-so Qb 2nd Generation can…
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Title: Hassan’s Walk Label: Pure Pleasure Originally released in 1983 on Nimbus West Records in Los Angeles, USA, Pure Pleasure has offered jazz fans a real prize. If for no other…
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The SR5014 is a 7.2-channel receiver supplying 180W while the SR6014 is a 9.2-channel receiver with 185W of power, 11.2ch processing and 11.2ch pre-out Based on the company’s Hyper Dynamic Amplification…
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Mola-Mola has taken the discrete DAC section from its Makua preamplifier and released it as a separate unit. A two board stack, incoming digital audio is upsampled to 32bit/3.125MHz, converted to…
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Russ Andrews is introducing the Kimber Carbon Interconnect cable, the first in a number of Carbon Series products that refers to the, “…electrostatically dissipative carbon polymer used between the Teflon dielectric…
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This German outfit, has released a pair of powered speakers featuring Bluetooth and HDAA cabinets The stand-mounted speakers are constructed from HDAA wood. I’ve only really seen this high density polymer…
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The units includes the company’s proprietary Active Noise Cancellation in a whole-system, six-outlet mains solution Active Noise Cancellation II uses inverse noise current to cancel out the noise in the mains signal,…
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Brief commentary of vinyl releases from Pure Pleasure, 4AD and Modern Harmonic PURE PLEASURE From the UK-based audiophile outfit (www.purepleasurerecords.com) comes two releases. Doug Hammond’s Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen…
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Brief commentary of vinyl releases from Music on Vinyl and At the Movies MUSIC ON VINYL More releases from this busy company (www.musiconvinyl.com) begins with Jeff Beck’s Jeff Becks Guitar Shop…
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He joined Bill Haley as a young member of the Comets and was thrust straight into the limelight, in the lead guitar role. Paul Rigby talks to Johnny Kay about his…
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Miyajima’s new Infinity Mono is a further enhancement of its Zero mono cartridge with an increase in size and weight plus an optimised single coil generator What you get therefore is a…
