Changing loudspeakers will always alter the sound of your hi-fi system, but you can often achieve as much by optimising the set-up of the speakers you already have ...

There will be Gramophone readers who have been on intimate terms with ... of the composer’s symphonies just as much as fastidious detail, remarkable recorded sound and the sense of an orchestra ...

By 2010 – two years after the orchestra’s fall from grace in Gramophone – the orchestra had artistically ... vital tempos back to Philadelphia but with its famously lush sound. That Philadelphia sound ...

Or, for that matter, like sitting in the best seat in the house, such is BIS’s commitment to the very highest possible quality of recorded sound (including surround ... indeed of spotting them before ...

As soon as he started conducting the sound changed. Early in the history of the gramophone, Stokowski pioneered high-quality recorded sound. He could balance the orchestra by changing the traditional ...