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In 1997, Martin Colloms reviewed the Krell Full Power Balanced 600 power amplifier, wondering "Can a 600Wpc amplifier be relevant to domestic high fidelity?"

Next, from August 1995, Robert Deutsch adds the pricey Jeff Rowland Design Group Model 2 power amplifier to his system asking "How do you define value in an audio component?" For most audiophiles like RD, it is not always a matter of "price:watt ratios."

From the June 1996 issue, Robert Deutsch explains why the YBA 1 Alpha HC power amplifier is an example "of auteur theory in audio." As Deutsch notes, not only do YBA components bear the founder's initials, "Every piece of equipment that leaves the factory is listened to by Yves-Bernard André."

We head back to 1967 for an historic "As We See It" from J. Gordon Holt, Audible Wallpaper. JGH laments that even in the '60s, "Now, it is only certain kinds of music that can elicit the kind of deep pleasure that people used to experience from virtually any kind of music."

Finally, the next installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives: Recording of April 1995: Mighty Sam McClain: Keep On Movin'. Richard Lehnert exclaims "My God, I thought, halfway through listening to a test pressing of Keep On Movin', Mighty Sam McClain's second album of killer R&B; It's better than the first album."