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Turntables, Arms & Cartridges
EAT Fortissimo/F-Note turntable/arm
Review: Ken Kessler,  |  Apr 26, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2024
hfnoutstandingHigh style meets high mass in EAT’s flagship turntable, coupled here with one of the most flexible tonearm solutions ever seen – the F-Note even includes an alignment laser!

If anyone doubts we are treated to as much, if not more novelty than back in the day when LPs ruled, EAT’s Fortissimo turntable and F-Note tonearm will put paid to that. Like TechDAS’s vacuum hold-down and air bearing [HFN Jun ’19], or the Reed deck [HFN Apr ’24] available in idler- and belt-drive versions, this EAT combination bursts with clever features.

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Classical
Classical, October 2024
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 26, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024

This month we review: Vrána, Janácek Phil Ostrava/Hron; Sydney SO/Robertson, Explore Ens; Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn; Mishka Rushdie Momen

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Jazz
Jazz, October 2024
Steve Harris  |  Apr 26, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024

This month we review: Pat Metheny, Cornelia Nilsson, Antonio Faraò, and Sam Braysher

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Rock
Rock, October 2024
Mike Barnes  |  Apr 26, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024
This month we review: Wand, The The, Pohl, and Personal Trainer
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, October 2024
Ken Kessler  |  Apr 26, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024
This month we review: Audiophile Masters, The Art Of HiFi, Holly Lerski, and Charlie Mingus
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Classical Companion
Luigi Nono Venetian radical
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 26, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024

Classical heroes, Communist ideology, the lapping waves of a lagoon... Peter Quantrill explores the disparate origins of Nono’s sound-world though a rich recorded legacy

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Classical Companion
Smetana Má vlast
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 25, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2024

There's more to this hymn to Czech nationhood than the familiar strains of Vltava, says Peter Quantrill, as he explores the history of the complete orchestral cycle on record

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Hi-Res Downloads
Hi-Res Downloads, October 2024
Review: Andrew Everard,  |  Apr 25, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024
This month we review and test releases from: Serol Yapici & Héctor Sanz Castillo, Norma Winstone & Kit Downes, Andrew Wilcox, Ola Kvernberg, and Sasha Witteveene
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Vintage
Philips DCC-600 versus the Marantz DD-92
Review: Paul Miller  |  Apr 25, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024
hfnvintagePaul Miller compares the Philips DCC-600 with the Marantz DD-92, two DCC recorders with the same PASC encoder but different ADCs and DACs

This review deals with two first-generation DCC players. Philips and other companies are committed to this medium, to judge from the fast expanding list of pre-recorded software, if not in the range of hardware to match. DCC will certainly not oust CD: it is better to think of it as a stepping stone between analogue compact cassette and the digital audio systems of the future – systems that must surely avoid the cumbersome format of tape. But for the time being, these machines may be counted a success.

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Jazz
Jazz, March 2025
Steve Harris  |  Apr 23, 2025  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2025

This month we review: Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory, Josephine Davies, Keith Jarrett and Immanuel Wilkins,

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