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Hi-Res Downloads
Hi-Res Downloads, December 2020
Hi-Fi News Staff  |  Dec 30, 2020
This month we review and test releases from: Clandestine Amigo, Berliner Philharmoniker/Kirill Petrenko, Lady A, Francesco Piemontesi, SCO/Andrew Manze and Olive Brown.
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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Vinyl, December 2020
Ken Kessler  |  Dec 29, 2020
This month we review: Dr John, The Night Tripper, Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan and Psychedelic Sex Kicks!
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, December 2020
Ken Kessler  |  Dec 29, 2020
This month, we review: Don Grusin, The Feminine Complex, Helen Reddy and STS 40th Anniversary In Sound Excellence.
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Rock
Rock, December 2020
Mike Barnes  |  Dec 29, 2020
This month we review: Jack Cheshire, The Cribs, Amy Macdonald and Blue öYster Cult.
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Classical
Jazz, December 2020
Steve Harris  |  Dec 28, 2020
This month we review: Allison Neale, Ron Miles, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.
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Classical
Classical, December 2020
Christopher Breunig  |  Dec 28, 2020
This month we review: Hallé Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin/Bernhard Forck, Sinfonia Of London/John Wilson and Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst.
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Integrated AmplifiersVintage
Aiwa AX-7400 receiver
Review: Tim Jarman,  |  Dec 24, 2020
hfnvintageIn 1977, as Britain came alive to the sounds of jazz-funk and punk, a Japanese receiver arrived on UK shores promising unbeatable tech at the price. How does it sound now?

Say 'Aiwa' to most audiophiles and the chances are they'll think of cassette decks. The company was one of the first in Japan to take the format seriously and later went on to lead the field, selling machines not only under its own name but as OEM products for many other brands. So why not branch out into the rest of the audio field?

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Loudspeakers
Klipsch Heresy IV Loudspeaker
Review: Mark Craven,  |  Dec 23, 2020
hfncommendedWith a heritage that can be traced back over 60 years, and still now only in its fourth generation, the Heresy is manna from heaven for the nonconformist audiophile

American loudspeaker marque Klipsch has a longer history than many, something emphasised by its new 'p***ing off the neighbours since 1946' slogan. And its Heresy model itself dates back to 1957, when company founder Paul W Klipsch first developed a compact three-way floorstander to act as a centre speaker within a stereo installation. It has remained part of the Klipsch stable ever since, undergoing revisions first in 1985 and then 2006. Now it has been relaunched as the Heresy IV, priced £3500 per pair and forming the entry point to the Klipsch Heritage range.

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From the Vault
The Big Mac Is Back
Ken Kessler  |  Dec 22, 2020  |  First Published: Nov 01, 1993
hfnvintageCited as the best Mac ever built, the MC275 returns. Ken Kessler listens

Reissue, reincarnation, replica – call it what you will but just thank the audio gods that someone at McIntosh has a sense of history. Unlike other manufacturers who have either squandered their heritage or merely milked it as it suited them, McIntosh has – with the Gordon J Gow Commemorative MC275 power amplifier – performed an act of such 'correctness', such aptness, that it brings a tear to this anachrophile's eye.

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Integrated Amplifiers
D'Agostino Progression Integrated Integrated Amplifier
Review: Ken Kessler,  |  Dec 21, 2020
hfnoutstandingBy extreme high-end standards, it's almost an 'entry level' product – so is Dan D'Agostino's Progression Integrated amplifier the perfect introduction to the brand?

After nearly four decades' worth of using Dan D'Agostino's designs, from Krells in the 1980s through to his more recent, eponymous models (I use a Momentum Stereo as my solid-state reference and love it to bits), I thought I knew what to expect. Silly me: surprise No 1 provided by the D'Agostino Progression Integrated was that I could lift it without any assistance. Surprise No 2 was a price under £20k.

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