“A detailed, smooth and open performance that gets to the heart of the music” says Hi Fi News of BAT’s VK-90 tube preamp in the June 25 issue. Awarding an outstanding badge, the mag enthuses that the VK-90 sounded “effortlessly musical”, while retaining “an ability to fully immerse you in the music”, and draws comparisons with another venerated act – The Rolling Stones – in its concluding paragraph: “For a band in its sixth decade to be delivering music this fresh is quite remarkable. While BAT is 25 years young, the same might also be said of its VK-90 preamp. Sweet sounds, indeed…”