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Opinion
A night at the opera
Barry Willis  |  Apr 16, 2025  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2025
Front-of-centre drama, battles behind the scenes... Barry Willis attends the opening of Verdi’s Un Ballo in San Francisco, but for him it’s the acoustics that truly bring down the house
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Opinion
Is it worth recording at hi-res?
Barry Fox  |  Apr 16, 2025  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2025
Are only certain musical genres and acoustics ‘worthy’ of recording at high sample rates, or is it more a case of cost and practicality? Barry Fox is in favour of capturing every overtone
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Audiophile Vinyl
Top 20 Mono Albums
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Apr 12, 2025  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2025
From Sinatra to Buffalo Springfield, Otis Redding to Tangerine Zoo... Ken Kessler brings you 20 monophonic masterpieces that prove stereo is not always the superior choice

Sixty years after its demise, monophonic sound seems a mere curiosity. Like pre-recorded open-reel tapes, there’s a cut-off after which mono was relegated to niche usage. Today it survives only for archival reissues, and this is for two reasons...

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Vintage
Nightingale Point 5
Trevor Attewell  |  Apr 09, 2025  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2025
hfnvintageBritish company steps up with a three-way reflex-loaded loudspeaker with a twist, but will its sound have Trevor Attewell head over heels in love?

The Point 5 from Nightingale Acoustics is a very unusual loudspeaker, which might be said to wear its heart on its head. Starting at the other end, its body is a basically rectangular cabinet made of 19mm particle board with an integral front panel that is stepped inwards by 24mm over the top 180mm, the two levels being joined by a slope.

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Classical
Classical, February 2025
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 05, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
This month we review: RLPO/Domingo Hindoyan; Johannes Moser, Xuefei Yang; Hallé/Kahchun Wong; and Bruno de Sà
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Jazz
Jazz, February 2025
Steve Harris  |  Apr 05, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
This month we review: Dave O’Higgins, Simon Oslender, The Oscar Peterson Quartet, and Joe Sanders
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Rock
Rock, February 2025
Mike Barnes  |  Apr 05, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
This month we review: The Cure, Frost*, Jack Cheshire, and Kim Deal
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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, February 2025
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Apr 05, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
This month we review: The Art Of Hifi Volume 5, JJ Grey & Mofro, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and Texas & Spooner Oldham
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Vintage
Pink Triangle Integral
Review: Ken Kessler  |  Apr 01, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
hfnvintage Designer looks, battleship build quality, superior sonics... Ken Kessler is beguiled by an amplifier that shows off its manufacturer’s true colours

True story: a knowledgeable audiophile arrives at my listening room in mid-November. Pink Triangle’s Integral integrated amplifier is driving a set of Wharfedale Diamond 8.1s, its badge covered with tape. I state to this collector of some repute with a memory spanning 35 years, ‘You will never guess who made this amplifier. Never’.

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Opinion
Cutting your own vinyl
Steve Harris  |  Apr 01, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
You’ve made homebrew cassette recordings and burned music files to CD, but what about cutting your own vinyl? Steve Harris looks at the options available from low-fi to hi-fi
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