hi-fi+ Magazine
June 2025
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!
What Is Essential To Audiophiles
We're relying on digital music more than
ever.
Editorial By Alan Sircom
The concept of 'Audio Essentials' is at once controversial and ever-changing.
It's controversial because there remains a contingent of audio enthusiasts who dismiss everything in the pages of this issue as nonsense on stilts. And
it's ever changing because we keep finding more aspects of the audio chain that can benefit from a spot of care and
attention. Care and attention goes beyond simply spending your way out of bad sound;
it's about getting the basics right and then seeing what lies beyond. The basics too often seem like a lost art, as indicated by the Gordian Knot of cables that often features at the rear of so many systems. Simply addressing that mess of cables – and getting each component sitting level on a light, yet rigid surface – can make a big difference to even the most humble
system. Similarly, ensuring where your loudspeakers – and, for that matter, you – are positioned in the listening room can bring out the best in a good system, and help smooth out the nasties in a bad one. Reading the instruction manual that came with the loudspeakers and using those recommendations as a starting place is a good start. However, often small and incremental adjustments to the relative position to side and rear walls, and the amount of toe-in beyond the basics
helps.
---> What Is Essential To Audiophiles.
7 Incoming!
Your Views On All Things Audio
Equipment Reviews
17 AudioQuest Rocket 44, Mackenzie RCA, And Carbon USB
High-End Audio Cables
23 Audiomica Rhod Reference, Dolomit Reference, Europa Ultra Reference, Genimedes Ultra Reference, And AcouPlex
High-End Audio Cables And Supports
33 Innuos PhoenixNET And PhoenixUSB
Network Switch And USB Reclocker
37 finite elemente CARBOFIBRE° Statement
Audiophile Equipment Platform
41 Michell LEVIS
Magnetic Levitation Feet
45 Melco S1
Network Switch
49 Synergistic Research PowerCell SX
Mains Conditioner
53 Chord Company PhonoARAY
Turntable Grounding
57 Furutech Project V1
Cable System
61 Entreq Macro Box Kit
Magnetic Field Control
65 Telos Macro G
Active Network Noise Reducer
69 JPlay
Music Software
73 Titanic Audio Newton
Vinyl LP Record Clamp
75 OMEX Symphony A
Equipment Support System
77 Origin Live Strata
Vinyl LP Record Mat
Features
11 Setup Matters
Bringing Out The Best In A System
80 Meet Your Dealer
Soundcraft Hifi In Ashford, Kent
85 Out Of The Box
Seven Innovative Thinkers An Audio Essentials!
Music
96 Lee Ritenour
Jazz-Fusion Guitarist And Songwriter
104 Music Reviews
Contemporary, Classical, And Jazz Music
Plus
94 Subscriptions
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111 Advertiser Index
112 Next Month
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