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hi-fi+ Magazine March 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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4 Pigeonholing Is Still Going On
We remain passionate about all things audio.
Editorial By Alan Sircom
It's strange. While a lot of audio is truly universal in its approach, there is still a lot of pigeonholing going on. Somewhere along the way, it's easy to fall into the trap where you think one country has some kind of exclusive hold over what is and isn't good in audio. Often, but not always exclusively, that just happens to be your home turf. This is (hopefully) not simple xenophobia at work. While the mechanics of our listening mechanisms remain unchanged from country to country, we often grow up in very different musical environments and that can reflect in the audio we choose. That even holds across the years; recent studies suggest those who grew up with heavily compressed music from the 'loudness war' era are struggling to come to terms with the more realistic, less compressed sound of acoustic instruments and voices without auto-tune.
---> Pigeonholing Is Still Going On.

7 Incoming!
Your views on all things audio

99 Meet Your Maker
We travelled to Athens in search of fine digital audio from Ideon Audio

Equipment Reviews
17 JMF Audio PRS 1.5/HQS 9001
Line preamplifier and mono power amplifiers

24 Bowers & Wilkins 705 S3
Stand-mount loudspeaker

33 Soulnote D-2
Digital to analogue converter

39 Audio Research I/50
Integrated valve amplifier

45 Triangle Magellan Quatour 40th Anniversary
Floorstanding loudspeaker

51 AVM CS 8.3 Black Edition
Integrated system

57 Karan Acoustics Master Collection PHONOb
Phono stage

63 Ortofon MC Diamond
Moving coil cartridge

69 Stax SR-X9000/SRM-T8000
Electrostatic headphone and headphone amplifier

79 Astell&Kern A&ultima SP3000
Portable music player