Three names inside one song: London Grammar’s “Hey Now” at GLV

Three writers, one band identity

“Hey Now” does not place a single name above the song. The approved HFI master credits Daniel Rothman, Dot Major and Hannah Reid as its writers and London Grammar as the performer. Sony’s official artist record identifies those same three people as the band and If You Wait as their 2013 debut album. The shared credit is therefore a compact portrait of London Grammar: the group itself stands behind the song.¹²

Let the first play belong to the whole performance. On the next, keep that shared authorship in view. The useful question is not which isolated sound makes the best system test, but how the song holds together as a statement made under one band name.¹²

HFI used the 44.1 kHz/24-bit edition of If You Wait, released by Dew Process on 6 September 2013.³

Eight drivers across four ranges

An Aurender NH10 network hub and MC10 master clock served the N50 digital-output network transport. The N50 fed an MSB Technology The Cascade DAC, followed by M500 monoblock power amplifiers and YG Acoustics XX loudspeakers.

YG’s current XX page describes the passive XX 3 as a four-way single-tower design with eight drivers per channel: one tweeter, two midrange drivers, three midbass drivers and two bass drivers. Its published crossover points are 90 Hz, 360 Hz and 1.85 kHz. On a second play, move your attention between those four ranges without turning the performance into eight separate parts; hear whether the band identity established by the song remains the larger frame.⁴

A sweet-spot perspective from GLV

HFI recorded the system at GLV in Seoul on 11 November 2025. A matched pair of DPA-4011 microphones fed a Zoom F8n Pro through Vertere microphone cables at 192 kHz/32-bit float. A laser distance meter matched the microphones’ distances from the loudspeakers at the position where that pair most closely captured the sound heard at the sweet spot. Sennheiser HD820 headphones were used during production.

Set a comfortable headphone level and sit in your own sweet spot. Begin with the three names behind “Hey Now,” then let the complete song take over. The system architecture can guide a return visit, but London Grammar remains the reason to stay.¹²