hi-fi+ Magazine      June 2026

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Do We Audiophiles Have Too Many Choices?
The difference between 'discovery' and 'curated discovery'. 
Editorial By Alan Sircom
Are we spoiled for choice? Maybe a little too many options leads to the tyanny of choice; not just in audio equipment, but in our choice of music we play and enjoy. In the same way a fully free-thinking Internet leads almost inexorably to conspiracy theories and puts us in touch with our darkest sides, so having access to what is, in essence, the entire musical canon at our fingertips works against us. I think we need some curation and guidance. Think about the average smartphone today. A smartphone user expects, demands and, under most circumstances, gets immediate and unfettered access to pretty much everything that's been recorded. Sure, they may need to pay a monthly subscription fee, either for wider access, fewer adverts, or to unlock higher resolutions, but the concept taken for granted by all of us today, is something that was unimaginable a couple of generations ago. Sci-fi is a great indicator. Not necessarily of the future, but at how people view the future at that time. And if you look to the sci-fi of the 1970s and before, almost no-one predicted that complete, always on, access to everything.
---> Do We Audiophiles Have Too Many Choices?

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With Pistonik Drive Technology

27 Rega Planar 6 RS
Vinyl LP Turntable 

37 Innuos Nazaré 
Digital Audio Music Server

47 Analog Relax EX300 
Moving Coil (MC) Cartridge

54 Cinnamon Audio Galle DAC
Digital-To-Analogue Converter

59 Gold Note PH-5.2/PSX-5.2 
Analog Phono Atage And Power Supply

65 Audiobyte SuperHEAD
Headphone Amplifier And Preamplifier

71 Triangle Capella 2
Active Stand-Mount Loudspeaker Streaming System

77 Allnic Audio ASRA RHPA-7500 
Headphone Amplifier And Integrated Amplifier

83 Eversolo DAC-Z10
DAC / Headphone Amplifier And Preamplifier 

89 Connected-Fidelity CF-1010
Turntable Tonearm

94 Pro-Ject Flatten-It!
Vinyl LP Record Flattener 

97 Titanic Audio Anchor Plate 
Equipment Platform

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101 Meet Your Maker
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Music
111 Music Reviews 
Contemporary, Classical, And Jazz Music

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119 Advertiser Index

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