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Most of the time the Michi Q5 just drew me into the music with its confident, no-fuss sound, an example being its handling of Debussy’s 12 Etudes, played by Mitsuko Uchida and recorded in 1989 by Grammy-winning producer Wilhelm Hellweg for the Philips Classics label [422 412-2]. ‘No.1 (Pour Les Cinq Doigts)’ kicks off a series of pieces of virtuoso playing – the equivalent of a prog rock guitar solo, circa 1915 – and is a flurry of notes, weights and resonances. The Q5 delivered it with all its flourishes and dynamic contrasts intact, and when Uchida’s key presses became faint, it was easy to imagine the lone piano in the recording space.

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