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Hi-Fi+ Magazine
Issue 63   January / February 2009

hi-fi+ Issue 63 January / February 2009    Hi-fi+ is a bi-monthly 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!

 

Regulars
1 This Issue's Editorial By Roy Gregory

5 Alan Sircom - Music Matters

6 Paul Messenger – Speakers Corner

12 Roy Gregory – Playing The System

 

Equipment+
16 Focal JMlabs Diablo Utopia Loudspeaker

28 Quad II-eighty Valve Mono-blocs

34 Musical Fidelity X-Can V8 Pre-amplifier

40 Spendor A6 Loudspeaker

46 Avalon Acoustics NP1.0 Loudspeaker

50 PMC OB1i Loudspeaker

54 KEF Reference 205/2 Loudspeaker

58 Audionet AMP V Five-Channel Power Amplifier (and Pre 1 G3 Pre-amplifier)

64 Naim SUPERNAIT Digital Integrated Amplifier

74 Audiolab 8000PPA and PS Audio GCPH Phono-stages

78 NAD M55 Multi-standard Digital Disc Player

82 Cyrus CD 8 SE/PSX-R CD Player

86 Wadia 170i Transport

90 Epoz Actimate Integrated iPod Dock and Speaker System

94 A Systematic Solution...
The Audioworks go to town on a system consisting of Cairn, Sugden and Focal.e

 

Music+
102 Interview – Bugge Wesseltoft
The New Conceptualist...

105 Pop and Contemporary Music

110 Genesis 1970-1972 Pomp rockers revisited (and re-mixed)

114 Jazz

115 Audiophile and Classical Recordings

120 Every Home Should Have One
The Johnny Cash Prison Gigs

 

Plus+
89 Back Issues

97 Subscriptions

101 Binders

116 Advertisers Index

 

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