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Joining this is the sheer atmosphere the REX 500 brings to tracks, big or small. ‘My Home Is In The Delta’ by Muddy Waters [Folk Singer; Geffen 96kHz/24-bit] was immensely evocative. Tiny details of his slide guitar playing were picked out, and the intimacy and ambience of this sparse recording shone through. At the other end of the scale, ‘America’, from Deutsch Grammophon’s live capture of Bernstein’s West Side Story featuring Jose Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa [96kHz/24-bit], saw vocalists placed along a wide, deep stage. Dynamic brass moments arrived with force – a counterpoint to softer percussion and shimmering latino guitar parts. This chaotic track is as much of a melting pot as its subject matter, yet the REX 500 gave equal footing to every tone and texture.

BAT’s amp performs just as admirably with music of a more modern bent. Daft Punk’s ‘Giorgio By Moroder’ [Random Access Memories; Sony Music 88883716862] began with a sonorous rendering of Moroder’s monologue and an almost surround sound delivery of the background ambience. Then we’re into wah-wah guitar and a club vibe, hammered home by a pounding kick drum and deep bass. The Perlisten S7t LE speakers were kept on a tight leash here, and the imaging between them was seamless.

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