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Herford, T+A’s home town, is close to Hamelin, the place immortalized in the fairy tale of the Pied Piper, whose music was literally impossible to resist. That’s fitting. With its crisp dynamics, taut, brawny bass, and feather-light treble detail, the Symphonia drew me in, unfailingly. It delivers way more audiophile gravitas than its size suggests. Although it lacks the excellent built-in CD player and the balanced connections of the bigger R 2500 R, the Symphonia is just as powerful and leaves surprisingly little on the table. It’s a miniature Meisterstück that should make the shortlist for Stereophile‘s Component of the Year

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Footnote 1: Well, almost. This coinage comes from a droll little lexicon called Schottenfreude, by Ben Schott, in which the author proposes clever neologisms for phenomena that Germans should have a word for but don’t. The immodest length of the imagined compound words is part of what makes them funny—but of course the expanse of letters is also a feature (or a bug) of actual German. As Mark Twain wrote in “The Awful German Language,” from A Tramp Abroad: “These things are not words, they are alphabetical processions.”

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