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Jazz
Jazz, December 2024
Steve Harris  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: Emmet Cohen, Mark Cherrie Quartet, Etienne Charles – Creole Orchestra and Artie Zaitz
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Rock
Rock, December 2024
Mike Barnes  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: David Gilmour, Gaudi Kosmisches Trio, Von Hertzen Brothers and HOO
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, December 2024
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 03, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: Alfredo Muro,Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Rain and 3 Mile Shout
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Classical Companion
Hans Christian Andersen The Little Match Girl
Peter Quantrill  |  Mar 02, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
There’s a lot more than the Disney comforts of Frozen to Andersen’s Christmas stories in music, says Peter Quantrill, as he explores different settings of a timeless morality tale

A lifelong loner, unmarried and childless, Hans Christian Andersen was one of those authors for children who didn’t much care for children (or anyone else). Forget the image of Danny Kaye, in 1953, tip-tapping his way on to the silver screen with ‘I’m Hans Christian Andersen, I am’. The recollection of the poet Heine seems closer to the mark. ‘He is a haggard man with a hollow, sunken face, and his demeanour betrays an anxious, devout type of behaviour that kings love. He is the perfect representation of a poet, just the way kings want them to be.’

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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, February 2025
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 01, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
This month we review: Art Pepper Quintet, George Benson, The Impressions and Run-D.M.C.
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, January 2025
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 01, 2025  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2025
This month we review: Tony Rice, The Blue Aeroplanes, The Mugwumps and Santana
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, December 2024
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Mar 01, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2024
This month we review: Dr. John, Paul McCartney & Wings, Ravi Shankar and The John Wright Trio
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, November 2024
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Feb 28, 2025  |  First Published: Nov 01, 2024
This month we review: Bryan Ferry, December’s Children, Jethro Tull and Harold Land
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Audiophile Vinyl, October 2024
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Feb 28, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2024
This month we review: Buddy Rich & Alla Rakha, Duane Eddy, Hampton Hawes and The Savoy Blues Band
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Integrated Amplifiers
PS Audio Stellar Strata MK2 integrated amplifier
Review: Mark Craven,  |  Feb 04, 2025  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2025
hfncommendedBased on the same ICEpower Class D amplifier module as the Stellar Strata, the ‘MK2’ trades streaming functions for an MM/MC phono stage. But power is increased...

PS Audio’s new Stellar Strata MK2 amplifier looks – at first glance – identical to the original Stellar Strata [HFN Mar ’21], save the ‘MK2’ lettering now added to its fascia. The slender chassis, offered in silver or black and a feature of all Stellar series hardware, is retained, as is the slim text display, right-side volume rotary and headphone output of its predecessor. So from the off, it’s clear that any changes made for this second-generation design are under the hood.

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