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£5.99 GET WOO’D WITH THE WA11 TOPAZ! REPRODUCING THE RECORDED ARTS www.hifiplus.
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EQUIPMENT REVIEW Hegel Audio Systems H390 integrated amplifier by Alan Sircom H ere’s how you make a good modern integrated amplifier. Start with the best bits from the last generation of good modern integrated amplifier and mix in many of the best bits of the new flagship integrated amplifier. In the case of Hegel Audio Systems, that means putting the older Hegel H360 in a room with Hegel’s current top of the tree H590, dim the lights, put on some Barry White, and let nature take its course.
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EQUIPMENT REVIEW / HEGEL AUDIO SYSTEMS H390 “Hegel went right back to the drawing board (well, drawing tablet) and not a single analogue board in the H390 is shared with its predecessor.” You can now even see the amp’s IP address in the menu. This was something that was harder to do when Macs still clung to Bonjour, but with that out of the way, being able to eye-ball the IP address allows you to go to the amplifier’s home page on a web browser and customise a lot of settings.
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EQUIPMENT REVIEW / HEGEL AUDIO SYSTEMS H390 I popped track after track through the H390, playing everything from dying man complaint rock (the title track to Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker album on Columbia), through Glenn Gould playing wispy Bach inventions, and out through the medium of Infected Mushroom belting out ‘Noon’ from IM the Supervisor [Yo-Yo], to Jackie McLean’s Bluesnik album [Blue Note].