hi-fi+ Magazine      November 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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It Is Show Season... Again
Are we entertaining new clients?
Editorial By Alan Sircom
The Show Season is upon us. As soon as the first leaf turns golden-brown, people in the audio world start instinctually packing. Journalists pack their notepads and cameras. Manufacturers break open the flight cases. It's now possible to be in a different country every weekend, attending a show. Sometimes there are two shows on the same weekend, spread worldwide. It's logical that as the nights draw in, people turn their attention to listening to music in the home. And it's equally logical that people who want to buy new audio equipment will get interested from September to April, when the Northern Hemisphere gets a little darker for longer.
---> It Is Show Season... Again.

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Features
86 Meet Your Maker Special
Franc Kuzma's new listening room.

Equipment Reviews
9 English Acoustics Stereo 41c
Tube power amplifier

17 dCS Lina
Streaming DAC, clock, headphone amplifier

27 Metronome AQWO 2
CD / SACD player / DAC / streamer

37 AURALiC ARIES G2.2 
Digital music streamer

43 B.Audio B.amp
Mono power amplifiers

50 Larsen Model 9
Floorstanding loudspeaker

55 Perlisten S4b, D12s, And SSLR-HGB
Stand-mount loudspeaker, active subwoofer, and stands

61 Ansuz Mainz8 D3
Power distributor

67 Final ZE8000 
In-ear monitors (IEMs)

71 VPI Goldy
Moving coil (MC) cartridge

73 Tellurium Q Statement II
Cable system

79 Synergistic Research PowerCell SX
Power conditioner

83 Chord Company Signature Super ARAY
USB cable

Music
94 A Beginner's Guide To... Hip-Hop Part 2
Hip-Hop goes West, and the East Coast isn't happy about it.
The 1990s and the rise of Gangsta Rap.

102 Pete Molinari
The best British singer-songwriter you've never heard of talks
about his sixth album, Wondrous Afternoon.

108 Emma Anderson
The co-founder of shoegaze-turned-Britpop band Lush talks
about her latest album, Pearlies.

117 Music Reviews
Contemporary, classical and audiophile music

Plus
114 Subscriptions
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125 CD
Salisbury Christmas
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127 Advertiser index

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