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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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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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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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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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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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From home to hi-fi
Barry Fox  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2025

Before DIY musicians unleash their tracks on streaming platforms, some are having them mastered by pros. Barry Fox goes behind the scenes to learn about ‘smashing’ and ‘sculpting’

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Plug-in and play
Barry Willis  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2025

Whether through hardware or software, there are ways to tweak your system sound. But, asks Barry Willis, what’s the appeal in adding vinyl-style artefacts to modern, digital productions?

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The missing link
Jim Lesurf  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2025

They’re the hidden heroes in our electrical hardware, but not all of them are the same. Jim Lesurf addresses confusion about fuses as he makes a quick switch to keep a 40-year-old amp in service

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Forty years of ECM
Peter Quantrill  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2025

A new coffee table book of album covers and statistics from Manfred Eicher’s record label will make a happy trip down memory lane for any serious collector, says Peter Quantrill

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A call to arms
Steve Harris  |  Jul 09, 2025  |  First Published: Jul 01, 2025

While the Covid pandemic didn’t kill the vinyl revival, it sealed the fate of Japanese tonearm and cartridge maker Jelco. Steve Harris salutes the family firm famous for its ‘knife edge’ bearings

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Useful uses for AI... at last
Barry Fox  |  Jun 19, 2025  |  First Published: Jun 02, 2025
Companies including Apple and DTS are using Artificial Intelligence to pioneer ‘personalised’ audio solutions. Barry Fox imagines a halcyon future where people on the TV don’t mumble
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Record cleaners
Christopher Breunig  |  Jun 19, 2025  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2025
If you collect LPs, a vinyl record cleaner might be considered as much a part of your system as a tonearm or cartridge. Christopher Breunig has recently put three different methods to the test
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Classic speakers compared
Jim Lesurf  |  Jun 19, 2025  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2025
Inspired by a new amp purchase, Jim Lesurf discusses the sonic signatures of two iconic speakers, and wonders what his love of Quad ESLs and the BBC LS3/5As says about his taste in music
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Lessons from Kurtág
Peter Quantrill  |  Jun 19, 2025  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2025
An encounter with the Hungarian composer gets Peter Quantrill thinking about how we respond to music... and whether it’s the music that we’re responding to, or our own feelings
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SACD and DSD
Steve Harris  |  Jun 19, 2025  |  First Published: Jun 01, 2025
Steve Harris on SACD’s journey from proposed CD replacement to niche, audiophile favourite, plus where to go for DSD and PCM downloads that’ll give your DAC a challenge
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