hi-fi+ Global Network Magazine hi-fi+ ISSUE 225 Back Issue

COMMENT
5 Incoming! Your views on all things audio

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 streamer
43 B.Audio B.amp mono mono power amplifiers
50 Larsen Model 9 floorstanding loudspeaker
55 Perlisten S4b, D12s, SSLR-HGB stand-mount loudspeaker, active subwoofer, stands
61 Ansuz Mainz8 D3 power distributor
67 Final ZE8000 in-ear monitors
71 VPI Goldy moving coil 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 Subscribe and save!
125 CD Salisbury Christmas: while stocks last!
127 Advertiser index
128 Next Issue Our Awards issue is coming soon!