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Rock
Rock, August 2025
Mike Barnes  |  Jul 29, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025

This month we review: The Flower Kings, Robert Forster, Peter Murphy, and Tan Cologne

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Audiophile Digital
Audiophile: Digital, August 2025
Ken Kessler  |  Jul 29, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025

This month we review: Sturtz, Mud, Catfish, plus Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour

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Audiophile Vinyl
Audiophile: Vinyl, August 2025
Ken Kessler  |  Jul 29, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025

This month we review: Helen Humes, Eden’s Children, Talk Talk, and Yes

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Opinion
Everything must go
Steve Harris  |  Jul 28, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025
Steve Harris has his eyes on the prized LPs of Classic Records founder Michael Hobson, now being sold to audiophile collectors. Or should he make do with a DSD ‘needle drop’ transcription?

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Opinion
Revelations and admissions
Peter Quantrill  |  Jul 28, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025
A new documentary film about Herbert von Karajan’s Bruckner cycle sheds revealing light on both the technology of the recordings and the interpretations, finds Peter Quantrill

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Opinion
Quad’s new 33/303 pre/power amps
Jim Lesurf  |  Jul 28, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025
Having made one amplifier upgrade to his listening set-up, Jim Lesurf immediately pondered another – but then discovered he was happy to leave old and new hardware working together

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Opinion
A visit to Magico
Barry Willis  |  Jul 28, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025

Barry Willis continues his whistlestop tour of West Coast audio marques with a visit to speaker maker Magico that leaves him feeling Lilliputian... and considering a listening room upgrade

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Opinion
Radio technology
Barry Fox  |  Jul 28, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025
Armour Home’s Q2 Cube wanted to ‘forever change the way people interact with radio’. Fifteen years later it’s been rendered obsolete by a third-party tech change. Barry Fox is flippin’ angry
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Turntables, Arms & CartridgesVintage
B&O Beogram 1000 turntable
Review: Tim Jarman,  |  Jul 26, 2025  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2025
hfnvintageLaunched in 1967, and updated five times over the next five years, the ’1000 was B&O’s first ‘Beogram’ turntable, equipped with custom tonearm and plug-in cartridge

B&O’s Beogram 1000 was one of those turntables that seemed to be everywhere in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Combining simplicity with careful design, for many years it was one of the most popular high-quality decks on the market. As ubiquitous as a Garrard SP 25 [HFN Jun ’25] or a Pioneer PL-12D [HFN Jun ’25], the inexpensive Beogram 1000 made great sound available to listeners of all levels of experience.

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Integrated Amplifiers
D’Agostino Pendulum amplifier
Review: Ken Kessler,  |  Jul 24, 2025  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2025
hfnoutstandingThe first ‘entry-level’ D’Agostino amp was never going to be a budget offering, but the Pendulum integrated still swings the dial in the direction of ‘affordable’. Start the clock...

Shall we first dispense with the debate about what constitutes ‘expensive’? Just as ‘luxury’ means anything more than you need, ‘expensive’ means anything more than you’re prepared or able to spend. I’m not about to gloss over the fact that £18,000 for a stereo amplifier isn’t chicken feed to most of us, even in a world of amplifiers costing 30 times that amount.

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