THE DEAL WITH DEBUSSY WHY THE MAESTRO’S WORKS ARE SO PERFECT FOR TESTING HI-FI

It’s time to give Claude his plaudits

We listen to a lot of classical music when we are testing hi-fi and headphones. Perhaps not as much as our high-expectations parents or old music teachers would ideally like, but stick a glass to the door of our test room(s) and you’ll hear plenty of Delibes, Beethoven and Mahler flowing melodiously from our listening chamber. We have also heard all the Hans Zimmer and John Williams that there is to hear. But let’s not get into the thorny issue of whether modern film scores should be considered ‘classical’ music. Classic FM plays a lot of movie soundtracks, that’s all we’re saying. The real marvel of classical music is that it’s such a nebulous term. The word classical is generally used for anything that’s non-electronic, incorporates traditional instrumentation and was composed…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2025

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