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Under the covers... Roxy Music
Johnny Sharp  |  Aug 03, 2021
Johnny Sharp on the creation of the artwork for Roxy Music, the band's debut album

If ever there was a band that arrived on the scene fully formed, it was Roxy Music. Before they were even signed to a label, they had a startling, glitter-flecked, faintly androgynous image, and a unique hybrid sound. This blended stomping glam pop with jazz-inflected avant-prog and experimental electronica, drawing influences from show tunes to war movies and torch songs while adding dashes of sensuality, camp and black humour. And it helped, of course, that they threw some highly memorable tunes in there.

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Loudspeakers
Magico A5 Loudspeaker
Review and Lab: Paul Miller  |  Aug 02, 2021
hfnoutstandingFlagship A series model from California's premier speaker brand is its most advanced 'affordable' floorstander yet

Finding positives during a time when audiophiles and civilians alike are under the cosh of 'that-which-shall-not-be-named' is important, and celebrating those rays of sunshine when we discover them, doubly so. And Magico's flagship A series floorstander is a particularly golden beam of musical light that, so the story goes, might not have been released so soon if it were not for the coercions of Covid. Oops, I mentioned it...

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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Vinyl, July 2021
Ken Kessler  |  Jul 30, 2021
This month we review: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends With Eric Clapton, Slim Harpo, Ed Kelly & Friend and Julian Taylor Band.
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, July 2021
Ken Kessler  |  Jul 30, 2021
This month, we review: The Kinks, Randy California & Spirit, The Everly Brothers and Kursaal Flyers.
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Rock
Rock, July 2021
Mike Barnes  |  Jul 29, 2021
This month we review: The Chills, Gojira, Morcheeba and Gary Numan.
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Jazz
Jazz, July 2021
Steve Harris  |  Jul 29, 2021
This month we review: Wes Montgomery, Tommy Flanagan, Jakob Bro and Logan Richardson.
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Classical
Classical, July 2021
Christopher Breunig  |  Jul 29, 2021
This month we review: Behzod Abduraimov, Faust, Queyras, Melnikov, Freiburg Baroque/Heras-Casado, Ben Goldscheider, Huw Watkins and Philharmonia Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
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Hi-Res Downloads
Hi-Res Downloads, July 2021
Hi-Fi News Staff  |  Jul 27, 2021
This month we review and test releases from: Juilliard String Quartet, David Chesky, Aaron Pilsan, Warren Vaché and Mansur.
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LoudspeakersVintage
Bang & Olufsen Beovox CX50 Loudspeaker
Review: Tim Jarman,  |  Jul 26, 2021
hfnvintageA covetable compact or a mere nearfield monitor for the acutely design-conscious? We hear how this miniature bookshelf loudspeaker from 1983 shapes up today

In the frantically fast-paced hi-fi market of the '70s and '80s, it is pleasing to find a product that remained in its manufacturer's catalogue virtually unaltered for years. If something looks good, sounds good and sells profitably why change it? Some products remain available simply because the company making them lacks the resources to do anything different. But that could not be said of Danish brand B&O, which was then at the height of its powers.

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From the Vault
Hi-Fi News: 21 this month, June 1977
John Crabbe  |  Jul 23, 2021  |  First Published: Jun 01, 1977
hfnvintageJohn Crabbe, editor of HFN/RR, reflects on two decades of audio advance

The galaxy of experts that were gathered together by Miles Henslow, founder and first editor of HFN, to help fill the pages of his pioneering magazine in 1956 still has a ring of authentic hi-fi quality as it shines across two decades of progress and expansion: Cecil Watts, Ralph West, Gilbert Briggs, Stanley Kelly, James Moir, R S Roberts and H Lewis York.

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