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That allows it to deliver remarkable presence with Emily Barker’s A Dark Murmuration Of Words set, with its stripped-back instrumentation, or to slam through the 2020 remaster of The Stones’ Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) from Goats Head Soup, with its chopping guitars, ripe brass and backing vocals and plaintive guitar solo. There’s exceptional clarity here, but never any sense that it’s being forced on you, so well integrated is the sound.

Used with speakers not exactly known for being bass-shy – in this case an elderly PMC OB1 and Neat’s Iota Xplorer (HFC 435), using transmission-line and isobaric bass architecture respectively, the Model 30 shows its ability to not just deliver a lot of bass, but also start and stop it smartly, while the amp is just as impressive with LPs spun in through that phono stage as it is with multi-DSD content streamed from network storage.

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