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Top 20 Various Artists albums
Ken Kessler  |  Nov 26, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

Various artists sets keep the variety levels high and boredom at bay, while being the perfect way to discover new artists and genres. Ken Kessler spins 20 of the latest

Compilations featuring various artists come in a number of flavours, but nearly all of the serious ones are intended to provide overviews of genres or eras, while others show off a label’s catalogue. Ever since the first great various artists sets of the 1970s, especially 1972’s Nuggets chronicling US garage rock and the one-hit wonders it engendered, the levels of research have been dazzling.

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Hi-Res Downloads
Hi-Res Downloads, December 2025
Review: Andrew Everard,  |  Nov 25, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

This month we review and test releases from: Jakob Bro, Christophersen/Skalstad/Telemark Chamber Orchestra, Fassine, Bernocchi/Chaplin, Pauline Anna Strom

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Disc PlayersFrom the Vault
Yamaha CDX-10000 CD player
Martin Colloms  |  Nov 25, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025
hfnvintageLaunched to celebrate the Japanese manufacturer’s 100th anniversary, this feature-laden CD player earns the praise of Martin Colloms

Our feature review series has been planned to include audiophile and flagship CD models, and that is certainly an accurate description of the magnificent-looking Yamaha CDX-10000. This forms a major component in a new series of limited edition audio separates which have been designed and built with virtually no concession to cost in celebration of Yamaha’s centenary. This covers the period 1887 to 1987, and the models are appropriately entitled the ‘Centennial Edition’.

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Jazz
Jazz, December 2025
Steve Harris  |  Nov 21, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

This month we review: Harold López-Nussa, Ruby Rushton, Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland, Danny Grissett

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Classical
Classical, December 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Nov 21, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

This month we review: Staples, Kožená; Devieilhe Degou; Soloists, LPO & CHs/Gardner; and Anna Geniushene

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Rock
Rock, December 2025
Mike Barnes  |  Nov 21, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

This month we review: Midlake, The Orb, Lemonheads, and Lovers

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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, December 2025
Ken Kessler  |  Nov 21, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

This month we review: Rock Workshop, Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Brian Nova, Steely Dan

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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Vinyl, December 2025
Ken Kessler  |  Nov 21, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

This month we review: Donovan, Alanis Morissette, Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden, Joni Mitchell

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Classical Companion
Sir Roger Norrington Laughing cavalier of the baton
Peter Quantrill  |  Nov 20, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

Peter Quantrill celebrates the work of a conductor whose crusade on behalf of ‘pure tone’ divided opinion but also changed the way we listen to music

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Opinion
Made to match
Steve Harris  |  Nov 19, 2025  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2025

Steve Harris remembers when copywriters believed a hi-fi system came second only to a house in ‘a man’s life’, and Japanese manufacturers sold towering stacks to cover every audio base

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