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hi-fi+ Magazine January 2025

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Editorial: It's All Good
We're living in the most diverse time for music acquisition and enjoyment.
Editorial By Alan Sircom
The WWI French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau famously once said, "Generals always fight the last war." That statement applies as much in audio as it did in the trenches of Ypres. Although, fortunately, audio's butcher's bill is a lot lighter. We're in 2025, now. We didn't get replicants or flying cars, but a quarter of a century into the millennium, we need to stop thinking like we are still living in the last one. What's great about right now in the audio world is we are living in an 'it's all good' time. It doesn't matter whether you want to listen to music on LP, tape, CD, SACD, streamed, downloaded, on compact cassette, MiniDisc (yes, there are still collectors) or sent by semaphore. Nobody really cares whether you listen using tubes, solid-state, IC-based, in Class A, AB, D, or F#. If you want to play music on headphones, boxes, panels, horns or by someone tapping out a rhythm on your eyeballs... there has never been such diversity of music acquisition and enjoyment.
---> It's All Good.

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Your views on all things audio.

Feature
96 Meet Your Maker
Dr. Matthew Webster, CEO of YG Acoustics

Equipment Reviews
11 Antipodes Audio Oladra
Music Server

19 Master Fidelity NADAC D/NADAC C
Digital to analogue converter and clock

27 Thrax Audio Sirens
Stand-mount loudspeaker

37 Cambridge Audio EXA100/EXN100
Integrated amplifier and streamer

47 Piega Coax 611
Floorstanding loudspeaker

55 conrad-johnson ART150
Stereo power amplifier

61 Roksan Caspian 4G Streaming
Integrated amplifier

67 PSB Imagine T54
Floorstanding loudspeaker

73 Quiescent T500VA
Balanced mains supply

79 Opera Consonance Wax Engine / Charisma Audio ECO
Turntable and cartridge package

84 DALI IO-8
Wireless headphones

87 Solid Tech Feet Of Balance
Isolation feet

93 AIM NA9
Ethernet cable

Music
101 Kim Wilde
The 1980s icon returns to electro-pop form, but in more reflective mood,
with a new album, co-written and produced by her brother, Ricky.

111 Music Reviews
Contemporary, classical, jazz and audiophile music.

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119 Advertiser Index

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