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Balanced Audio Technology VK3500 hybrid integrated amplifier, DS Audio’s DS 003 optical cartridge, Astell&Kern;’s A&futura; SE180 digital audio plyer, Beats Studio Buds true wireless Bluetooth earbuds, the Leben CS-300F integrated amplifier, Rosson Audio Design’s RAD-) open-back over-ear planar magnetic headphones, Sonus faber’s Lumina V three-wat floorstanding loudspeakers, Pro-ject’s Debut Carbon Evo upgrades and Phono Box RS2/ Phono Box RS Phono MM/MC phono stage/ power supply upgrade, Yamaha’s YH-L700A closed-back, over-ear headphones, Chord Company’s GroundARAY grounding device and Clearway XLR cable, QED’s Performance Audio 40i RCA interconnect, a group test of phono preamps featuring Design Build Listen’s The Wand EQ, Leema Acoustics’ Agena, Manley’s Chinook, ModWright Instuments’ Ph90, Musical Fidelity’s Nu-Vista Vinyl and Rega’s Aura plus an appreciation of Beatle George Harrison’s solo career. Regulars include contributor Opinion columns, Readers’ Letters, Reasons To Be Cheerful and the 100+ product Buyers’ Guide.
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Black Rhodium Twist Classic
Hi-Fi Choice the low-cost twin flex supplied with a starter music system, the Twist Classic is a two-core twisted pair employing 0.75mm2 tinned copper conductors insulated with a 1.2mm silicone rubber dielectric.
The Missing Link Alaqeia
THIS INTERCONNECT USES The Missing Link's Ultrapure silver-plated oxygen-free copper conductors in a pseudo-balanced construction to offer superior RFI rejection and is insulated with a PTFE dielectric.
Russ Andrews Evolution-300 PowerKord
BUILDING ON THE success of the Evolution-100 PowerKord (HFC 461), the 300 employs twice as many woven conductors.
True Colours Industries Python II
MARKETED AS A no-compromise reference-grade speaker cable, the Python II is available as a standard pre-terminated stereo cable and also as a 4-conductor pre-terminated bi-wire.
Jack White Fear Of The Dawn
IT’S HARD TO think of any artist who has seized DIY control of the entire production, distribution, promotion and marketing of his music as totally as Jack White.
A RECORDING TECHNOLOGY SHOWDOWN
What's the best way to record music? Half-soeed mastering? 33 or 45rom? Analogue or digital? Mike Valentine has produced an audiophile recording that allows you to decide for yourself. Neville Roberts attends the session
Nilufer Yanya Painless
BORN IN LONDON 26 years ago to an IrishBarbadian mother and a Turkish father, Nilufer Yanya may be the embodiment of modern multi-cultural Britain but she’s built her career in the old-fashioned way.
Angel Olsen Big Time
BORN IN ST Louis, Missouri 35 years ago and adopted at birth, Olsen began singing in a punk band in her teens before moving to Chicago, where she became a backing singer for Will Oldham, whose albums as Bonnie Prince Billy have made him pretty much the liege lord of alt-folk.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down
IT’S MORE THAN 20 years since the Yeah Yeah Yeahs emerged as part of a new millennium resurgence in edgy, post-punk alternative American rock. Formed in New York by singer Karen O, drummer Brian Chase and guitarist/ keyboard player Nick Zinner, the trio’s earliest gigs were supporting the Strokes and White Stripes, which provided them with an audience that was already willing and able when the band eventually released its first album, Fever To Tell in 2003.
What's in the box?
When it comes to choosing loudspeakers, there are many designs to pick from. Neville Roberts discusses what different cabinet enclosure types offer
