hi-fi+ ISSUE 217: MARCH 2023

COMMENT

• Incoming! Your views on all things audio
• Meet Your Maker We travelled to Athens in search of fine digital audio from Ideon Audio

EQUIPMENT REVIEWS

• JMF Audio PRS 1.5/HQS 9001 line preamplifier and mono power amplifiers
• Bowers & Wilkins 705 S3 stand-mount loudspeaker
• SOULNOTE D-2  digital to analogue converter
• Audio Research I/50 integrated valve amplifier
• Triangle Magellan Quatour 40th Anniversary floorstanding loudspeaker
• AVM CS 8.3 Black Edition integrated system
• Karan Acoustics Master Collection PHONOb phono stage
• Ortofon MC Diamond moving coil cartridge
• Stax SR-X9000/SRM-T8000  electrostatic headphone and headphone amplifier
• Astell&Kern A&ultima SP3000 portable music player
• CAD USB II-R USB cable
• Allnic Audio Mu-8R interconnect cables
• Synergistic Research Foundation SX loudspeaker and interconnect cables
• Russ Andrews SuperRouter Signature grounding block

MUSIC

• A Beginner’s Guide to…  Shoegaze Introspective guitar-led indie rock from the 1990s. The antidote to jangly indie pop and Grunge
• Andy Fairweather Low The Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist from Amen Corner
• The Kynd British 1990s power-pop band on their follow-up second album… 24 years later
• Music Reviews Contemporary, classical and audiophile music

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