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12 issues per year View Reviews   |   Write Review From €1,50 per issue Hi-Fi+ is Europe’s premier English-language high-end audio magazine. Whether it’s the latest in digital audio technology or the best turntable you’ve ever heard, Hi-Fi+ magazine is the ultimate audiophile authority. .. read more

Our goal is clear; to seek out the finest audio components money can buy. Music is the soundtrack to all our lives and we think that the better that soundtrack, sounds the more enriched our lives can be. A good audio system can open up new avenues of music that might surprise you. We don’t differentiate; it could be a classic valve amplifier or a state-of-the-art music server – if it sounds good, we want to know and we want to tell you about it. The difference between good sound and great sound lies in the details… and we are obsessive about detail.

We aren’t constrained by measurement or bogged down in stuffy old paradigms. We are relevant and a little bit irreverent. Hi-Fi+ features some of the best writers in the business, all passionate about making music sound as good as it possibly can. We seek out the finest audio components – and the latest and greatest music – and aren’t afraid of finding the best, whatever the cost.  read less
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COMMENT
7 Incoming! Your views on all things audio

FEATURES
96 Meet Your Maker Franc Kuzma of Kuzma d.o.o.

EQUIPMENT REVIEWS
10 Magico S3 floorstanding loudspeaker
19 PMC prodigy1 stand-mount loudspeaker
29 Technics SL-1210G turntable and tonearm
37 Hegel Viking CD player
43 Epos ES14N stand-mount loudspeaker
52 Lowther Hegeman floorstanding loudspeaker
57 Phasemation EA-350 phono stage
63 Vinius Audio TVC-05 preamplifier
69 Ophidian Incanto floorstanding loudspeaker
75 Shunyata Research Omega loudspeaker and interconnect cables
81 REL Classic 98 subwoofer
85 IsoTek V5 Sigmas power conditioner

MUSIC
96 A Beginner’s Guide to. .. read more .. Hip-Hop Part 1
Hip-Hop turns 50 this year. We look at the New York roots of the most influential genre in popular music.
104 Howard Jones The 1980s pop icon is celebrating 40 years in the music business with a deluxe four-CD box-set, including a track in Simlish!
110 Brian Auger Legendary keyboard player and the godfather of Acid Jazz, talks about his band Oblivion Express and the new six-disc collection.
119 Music Reviews Contemporary, classical and audiophile music

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114 Competition Java Hi-Fi Single Shot amplifier worth £9,290 must be won!
116 Subscriptions Subscribe and save!
127 Advertiser index
128 Next Issue Find out what’s happening next time!  read less
Hi-Fi+ is Europe’s premier English-language high-end audio magazine. Whether it’s the latest in digital audio technology or the best turntable you’ve ever heard, Hi-Fi+ magazine is the ultimate audiophile authority.

Our goal is clear; to seek out the finest audio components money can buy. Music is the soundtrack to all our lives and we think that the better that soundtrack, sounds the more enriched our lives can be. A good audio system can open up new avenues of music that might surprise you. We don’t differentiate; it could be a classic valve amplifier or a state-of-the-art music server – if it sounds good, we want to know and we want to tell you about it. The difference between good sound and great sound lies in the details… and we are obsessive about detail.

We aren’t constrained by measurement or bogged down in stuffy old paradigms. We are relevant and a little bit irreverent. Hi-Fi+ features some of the best writers in the business, all passionate about making music sound as good as it possibly can. We seek out the finest audio components – and the latest and greatest music – and aren’t afraid of finding the best, whatever the cost.
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Very good magazine for all those fans of hi-fi information and news Reviewed sabato 9 aprile 2022
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Hi-Fi+

Well, over the (many) years as an Audiophile, I have read (many) Audiophile magazines...My first impressions of Hi-Fi+ came from reading a printed issue (unfortunately, landed to someone who should have sent it back to me but didn't), but that issue whetted my appetite, so I paid for the digital edition. Great reviews, of important products, well-written....very satisfied. Will re-activate my subscription when it expires (in two month's time). Thanks a lot! Reviewed domenica 17 gennaio 2021
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Hi-Fi+

Excellent magazine, well written articles, technically accurate, informative and entertaining. Reviewed domenica 17 gennaio 2021
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Hi-Fi+

Love the magazine for its well written reviews of equipment and music. Reviewed lunedì 28 settembre 2020
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Hi-Fi+

always excellent Reviewed mercoledì 2 settembre 2020

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