Looking to buy your very first turntable but aren’t too sure where to turn or how? Paul Rigby offers a few – ok eight if you really want to force the issue…
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Blues Review CD Folk Review Headline Jazz & Easy Review Rock Review Soul/R&B Review Various ReviewCD NEWS & REVIEWS: 15 TITLES COVERED!
A total of 15 discs for this CD section covers various genres and combines extended news items and longer-form reviews, including mastering comments JAMIE COE Title: Summertime Symphony Label: Jasmine If there…
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The first turntable from Naim, it arrives with a new version of the Aro tonearm, an Equinox MC cartridge, Solstice Series Phono Stage, Power Supply and bespoke accessories set. Only 500…
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A follow up to the original D50s DAC review looks at a technical issue surrounding this DAC and my attempts to track down the fault After which, do I recommend that…
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EJ Jordan Ltd has launched the Marlow, a compact loudspeaker with a single, wideband drive unit in a BBC-inspired cabinet The wood-veneered cabinet is made from heavily-damped 9mm Baltic birch ply,…
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One of the joys of collecting music, of all formats, is its archaeological aspect and how seemingly stand-alone bands and artists are, in fact, connected to each other in a complex…
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Check out Paul Rigby’s latest CD news and reviews round up covering a host of genres and artists – 14 in all! There’s a range of CDs here, including a few…
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Paul Rigby talks to Ace Records’ soul expert, Dean Rudland and asks just what makes the Southern Soul records of Memphis and Muscle Shoals…southern This new interview-based feature has just been…
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[Here’s one from my archive, penned when the US-based record label Sundazed released a batch of the artist’s LPs in 2013.] There are not too many music artists out there who…
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An all-in-one ‘music centre’ design situated on its own stand, it includes a turntable, an amplifier, speakers, Bluetooth and DAC The LX Turntable actually uses a recognisable, audiophile turntable integrated within…
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Balanced Audio Technology’s hybrid VK3500 integrated amplifier marries a ‘SuperTube Unistage’ preamplifier with a solid-state power section generating 150W The signal is transmitted through only one gain stage with zero feedback.…
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Aimed at vinyl users, the UberLight Flex Light is designed to illuminate the shadows around your turntable Operating from Toronto, Canada Reliable’s UberLight Flex is a LED light on the end…
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A limited-edition direct drive turntable design, Paul Rigby reviews the HW-40 in its ‘Anniversary’ configuration in this archive video edition This is a big turntable from VPI. The plinth is large…
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A brand new vinyl and coffee shop has just opened in Leyton, East London, Dreamhouse Records is also a coffee shop. Put the kettle on! The Dreamhouse Records shop will stock a wide…
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jazzed, the world’s first dedicated audio-visual streaming destination for jazz, has announced details of a new add-on service which will offer its subscribers exclusive access to livestream concerts from a selection…
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I’ve got 13 albums for you of differing genres and lots of opinion added for good measure via this exclusive Patreon video Thats just over 10 minutes of groovy goodness on…
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A dinky little DAC it might be but, as Paul Rigby sees and hears, its packed with an array of features including Bluetooth This D50s review includes comparisons with the Topping…
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The latest iteration of the 120 turntable, Audio-Technica has made several tweaks to the AT-LP120XUSB design. Paul Rigby checks out the 120x and compares it to the competition For me, at…
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Everyone has a stylus-cleaning opinion it seems and there are a host of products on the market that attempt to solve the issue. Paul Rigby searches through the fluff and the…
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A total of eight discs for this Vinyl Review section…well packages, some of these things are actually multi-disc box sets. A full review including mastering comments ROXETTE Title: Bag of Trix:…
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This week, I have 11 pieces of vinyl for you as expanded vinyl news. Often with sprinklings of opinion chucked in for good measure CHAS…NO DAVE The thing about Chas &…
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The latest iteration of the 120 turntable, Audio-Technica has made several tweaks to the design for the AT-LP120XUSB Paul Rigby gives the Audio Technica turntable a full review and compares it…
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The third generation of Kann digital audio players, Paul Rigby reviews this meaty, brick of a device And it is. As long as you don’t have small hands, the aluminium-based, quad-core…
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The Starkrimson Ultra Amp Modules offer up to 500W (RMS) from the previously available 150W So what do you get? The Starkrimson amps are fully balanced from input to output. Differential and single-ended…
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The 2go device connects to both the Hugo 2 DAC/headphone amp and the forthcoming 2yu network bridge. It adds streaming facilities. What we have here is a firmware rollout (v. 1.5.0…
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Artist: CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Title: Deja Vu Label: Atlantic Deja Vu album is partly famous because it’s a second album. And second albums very rarely do well. “That difficult…