Hi-Fi+ September 2023

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hi-fi+ Magazine September 2023

hi-fi+ is a magazine that is serious about hi-fi. Our articles are intended to help you get the best from your system, rather than simply telling you to buy another one. Our reviews only cover product that we think is worthwhile. You can read more about that by looking at our reviews policy, but lets just say that our attitude to equipment is rather different, and we hope, much more informative. We haven't forgotten that hi-fi is supposed to be fun!

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Welcoming Both New And Longstanding Audio Companies
Our favourite brands to release the new products.
Editorial By Alan Sircom
Are there too many companies in audio? We are approaching Audio Show season for the end of 2023, and at each event there are seemingly dozens of new brands offering products, but a finite number of buyers, many of whom buy from the same companies they always bought from. Is that sustainable? This year is going to be especially interesting. Those long product development cycles used by bigger brands stalled during the pandemic lockdowns, and in more than a few cases, the products those designers weren't developing in 2020 and 2021 are the ones that aren't arriving in the stores this season. Meanwhile, the keen enthusiast with an idea and a passion had months to themselves to perfect their new product.
---> Welcoming Both New And Longstanding Audio Companies.

7 Incoming!
Your views on all things audio

Features
10 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS Cabriolet With Burmester Audiosysteme
In-car entertainment

96 Meet Your Maker
Michael Hedges of Monitor Audio

Equipment Reviews

Gold Note DS-1000 EVO Streaming DAC Review
A fine streamer / DAC / pre that is a worthy addition to high-performance digital audio.
Review By Alan Sircom
The Gold Note DS-1000 EVO has been one of the company's mainstays in its higher-end electronics line. It's a wireless streaming DAC, making it essentially your complete digital source component in a post-physical digital age. However, given it also has extensive digital connections that a disc-spinner might use, it's also likely to be a digital hub for CD transports and other traditional digital audio devices. It has an optional XLR and RCA line inputs if you wanted to use the DS-1000 EVO as a line preamplifier (which is called the DS-1000 EVO LINE and is the model tested here), and a 1/4" headphone socket too. In the past, Gold Note eschewed the notion of discussing its chipset, taking the very admirable line that suggests its a Gold Note product, rather than someone's chipset in a Gold Note box.
---> Gold Note DS-1000 EVO Streaming DAC Review.

27 Sonus faber Guarneri G5
Stand-mount loudspeaker

36 Kudos Audio Titan 808
Floorstanding loudspeaker

43 PrimaLuna EVO 100
Phono preamplifier

52 Karan Acoustics Master Collection POWERb
Stereo power amplifier

57 Java Hi-Fi Single Shot
Integrated amplifier

63 Davone Reference One
Floorstanding loudspeaker

69 Børresen X3
Floorstanding loudspeaker

74 Balanced Audio Technology VK80i
Integrated amplifier

79 Vertere Acoustics Imperium
Motor drive turntable power supply

83 Purist Audio Design Jade
Interconnect, power, and loudspeaker cable

89 Coherence Systems ADDPowr Sorcer
Apprentice power conditioner

93 Stack Audio AUVA 100
Loudspeaker isolators