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COMMENT
4 INCOMING!
Your views on all things audio
8 MUNICH HIGH-END 2018
The most important show in audio today!
89 MEET YOUR MAKER
Crystal Cable and Siltech
94 DAVE WILSON 1944-2018
Remembering the founder of Wilson Audio Specialties

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17 BURMESTER AUDIOSYSTEME 175 turntable, arm, cartridge, and phono stage 28 RAIDHO ACOUSTICS TD-4.8 floorstanding loudspeaker 37 TRILOGY AUDIO 903/993 preamplifier and stereo power amplifier 45 ZANDEN AUDIO SYSTEMS MODEL 9600Mk2 monophonic power amplifier 53 CONTINUUM AUDIO LABS OBSIDIAN AND VIPER
turntable and tonearm
61 WILSON-BENESCH DISCOVERY II
standmount loudspeaker
69 CAYIN HA-300
valve headphone amplifier/integrated amplifier
75 ROTEL T14
combination tuner/streamer
80 VICOUSTICS MULTIFUSER DC2
acoustic diffusor panels
84 NAIM AUDIO SUPER LUMINA
interconnect and loudspeaker cables

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100 MAGNUS ÖSTRÖM
European jazz drummer remembers e.s.t. 106 CONTEMPORARY AND AUDIOPHILE MUSIC

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Hi-Fi+ Issue 161 COMMENT 4 INCOMING! Your views on all things audio 8 MUNICH HIGH-END 2018 The most important show in audio today! 89 MEET YOUR MAKER Crystal Cable and Siltech 94 DAVE WILSON 1944-2018 Remembering the founder of Wilson Audio Specialties EQUIPMENT+ 17 BURMESTER AUDIOSYSTEME 175 turntable, arm, cartridge, and phono stage 28 RAIDHO ACOUSTICS TD-4.8 floorstanding loudspeaker 37 TRILOGY AUDIO 903/993 preamplifier and stereo power amplifier 45 ZANDEN AUDIO SYSTEMS MODEL 9600Mk2 monophonic power amplifier 53 CONTINUUM AUDIO LABS OBSIDIAN AND VIPER turntable and tonearm 61 WILSON-BENESCH DISCOVERY II standmount loudspeaker 69 CAYIN HA-300 valve headphone amplifier/integrated amplifier 75 ROTEL T14 combination tuner/streamer 80 VICOUSTICS MULTIFUSER DC2 acoustic diffusor panels 84 NAIM AUDIO SUPER LUMINA interconnect and loudspeaker cables MUSIC 100 MAGNUS ÖSTRÖM European jazz drummer remembers e.s.t. 106 CONTEMPORARY AND AUDIOPHILE MUSIC + 60 COMPETITION! Win! $10,300 worth of Allnic cables must be won!!! 98 SUBSCRIPTIONS 111 ADVERTISER INDEX 112 NEXT MONTH Find out what’s happening next month!


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COMMENT
4 INCOMING!
Your views on all things audio
8 MUNICH HIGH-END 2018
The most important show in audio today!
89 MEET YOUR MAKER
Crystal Cable and Siltech
94 DAVE WILSON 1944-2018
Remembering the founder of Wilson Audio Specialties

EQUIPMENT+
17 BURMESTER AUDIOSYSTEME 175 turntable, arm, cartridge, and phono stage 28 RAIDHO ACOUSTICS TD-4.8 floorstanding loudspeaker 37 TRILOGY AUDIO 903/993 preamplifier and stereo power amplifier 45 ZANDEN AUDIO SYSTEMS MODEL 9600Mk2 monophonic power amplifier 53 CONTINUUM AUDIO LABS OBSIDIAN AND VIPER
turntable and tonearm
61 WILSON-BENESCH DISCOVERY II
standmount loudspeaker
69 CAYIN HA-300
valve headphone amplifier/integrated amplifier
75 ROTEL T14
combination tuner/streamer
80 VICOUSTICS MULTIFUSER DC2
acoustic diffusor panels
84 NAIM AUDIO SUPER LUMINA
interconnect and loudspeaker cables

MUSIC
100 MAGNUS ÖSTRÖM
European jazz drummer remembers e.s.t. 106 CONTEMPORARY AND AUDIOPHILE MUSIC

+
60 COMPETITION!
Win! $10,300 worth of Allnic cables must be won!!!
98 SUBSCRIPTIONS
111 ADVERTISER INDEX
112 NEXT MONTH
Find out what’s happening next month!
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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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Excellent magazine, well written articles, technically accurate, informative and entertaining. Reviewed 17 January 2021

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