This month we review and test releases from: Nicky Spence, Julius Drake, Piatti Quartet, Esther Kaiser, The Gesualdo Six, Michael J Valentine and Automatica.
This month we review and test releases from: Alice Coote & Julius Drake, Thom Lafond, Florent Ghys, Jacob Reuven, Omar Meir Wellber, Sinfonietta Leipzig and Scabaret
This month we review and test releases from: Danny Holt, Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas, Leonore Piano Trio, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orch and The Lovecraft Sextet.
This month we review and test releases from: Alexander Scriabin/Andrey Gugnin, Clandestine Amigo, Dzsindzsa Band, Petra Magoni & Ilaria Fantin and Blue Violet.
This month we review and test releases from: Bonnie & Taylor Sims, The Gesualdo Six, Thomas Oliemans/Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson, Gábor Csordás, Sándor Tóth, Tamás Hidász & Vince Bartók and Octave Records.
Andrew Everard explains how to integrate online music into your system
Streaming? It's simple: you plug your smartphone's headphone output into your amplifier using a 3.5mm-to-stereo-phono cable, tap the free Spotify app, and you're in business. It's hard to see what all the fuss is about really, isn't it?
Andrew Everard brings you his guide to superior sound on a shoestring
The old saw that schooldays are the happiest of your life, jumpers for goalposts an' all, has its parallels in hi-fi. Ask many an enthusiast of a certain age, and they'll go a bit misty-eyed at the thought of their first 'proper' system, bought with a mixture of summer job earnings and that first student grant – yes, once upon a time you got given money to study.