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Happy birthday to us, as this month or, more correctly, this issue we are 65 years young. Was it really that long ago we were just 21 [see p128]? Hi-Fi News has published uninterrupted from its arrival at the newsstands in June 1956, before growing to support, inform and entertain tens of thousands of eager audiophile subscribers from all over the world. While other titles have been absorbed into HFN, I’ll be as bold to claim we were also the wellhead from which more hi-fi periodicals were inspired. We have been doing this for longer than any other hi-fi title in the world, and our mix of investigative reporting, behind-the-scenes music features, in-depth hardware reviews and fully independent lab testing remains unique in a world now awash with cursory ‘hands on’…