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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
 |  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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Opinion
Death of the orchestra?
Peter Quantrill  |  Apr 01, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
Peter Quantrill finds reasons to be cheerful in the proliferation of young-musician ensembles based on more flexible models of organisation – but can traditional venues follow suit?
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Opinion
Digital to the rescue
Jim Lesurf  |  Apr 01, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025
As DAB proliferates, has the era of high-quality FM tuners come to an end? Jim Lesurf believes modern technologies could be used to put the sparkle back into analogue radio
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Opinion
Gallium’s going places
Barry Willis  |  Apr 01, 2025  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2025

Following a flying visit to an audiophile friend’s listening room, Barry Willis believes Gallium Nitride (GaN) power transistors could be just what the amplifier world has been looking for

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