Hi-Fi+ July 2023

hi-fi+ Magazine     
July 2023

 

 

  hi-fi+
is a
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!

 

 

Comment
Cult Of Personality

What happens when that designer stops designing?
Editorial By Alan Sircom
We have a cult of personality in high-end audio. Unlike almost every other branch of consumer electronics – where the product is created by a team of engineers and industrial designers – a lot of high-end audio is the result of one very bright person at the helm of a small company making incredibly specialist products for a small, but select clientele.
This has its upsides and downsides. The great advantage in the audio industry’s need to have some kind of close contact with the designer is that they are very close to direct customer feedback. When the guy making the thing is the same guy demonstrating the thing at a show, they are only a few sentences from getting a full break-down of their products by those who use them daily. This kind of direct
‘focus group’ feedback is something large corporations pay handsomely to obtain.
—> Cult Of Personality.

 

7 Incoming!
Your Views On All Things Audio.

 

Obituary
128 Chris Thomas 1949 – 2023
As this issue went to press, we learned of the sad and sudden passing of one of our longest-standing reviewers, and a good
friend….

 

Equipment Reviews
10 Döhmann Audio Helix One Mk3 Turntable

 

19 Waversa Systems Digital Audio Streaming Solution

 

31 MOON by Simaudio North 791 And 761
Preamplifier And Power Amplifier

 

39 Engström Arne Mk 2 
Integrated Valve Amplifier

 

48 Quiescent T100MPA
Mono Power Amplifier

 

55 Bowers & Wilkins 702 S3
Floorstanding Loudspeaker

 

 

61 Leben CS300XS
Integrated Valve Amplifier

 

67 Allnic Audio D-10000
OTL / OCL DAC

 

73 SoundSpace Systems Robin
Floorstanding Loudspeaker

 

85 Network Acoustics Muon Pro
Ethernet Filter

 

89 Russ Andrews BMU 3000 Mk II
Balanced Power Supply

 

91 WK Audio TheRed
Power Cord

 

Music
97 A Beginner’s Guide to… The Blues
From slave hollers to travelling musicians, and maybe a deal with the Devil at a crossroads… how the Blues began.

 

107 Jenny Don’t and the Spurs Portland’s alt-country outlaws on vocal chord surgery and dogs setting fire to studios, COVID-19, and more! 

 

112 Jim Bob
One half of 1990s indie-rockers Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine on his new solo album.

 

119 Music Reviews Contemporary, Classical, And Audiophile
Music

 

Plus
116 Subscriptions Subscribe And Save!

 

118 Back Issues
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127 Advertiser index

 

 

 

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