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*UK and Europe - ISSUE 64 (March 2009)

*North America and Rest of the World - ISSUE 63 (January 2009)

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Editorial by Alan Sircom
A change in editor will naturally entail changes to the magazine, but I’m keen not to shake the tree just for the sake of making my presence felt. I have intimated my feelings on Hi-Fi Plus and its future direction on pages four and six of this issue, but this is just a jumping-off point. I welcome your comments and opinions about Hi-Fi Plus – good and bad. It’s not possible to please everyone...

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Issue 64 includes
Focal Grande Utopia EM, KEF iQ50, Guru Pro Audio QM10, Q Acoustics 1050i, AudioSmile Kensai, and Finite Elemente Modul LS Loudspeakers; Audio Research Reference CD8 and Neodio NR One CD player; Renaissance RAP-03 Preamplifier and RA-03 Monoblock Power Amplifiers; Benchmark DAC 1 Pre Digital Converter/Preamplifier; HRT Streamer and Streamer+ USB-based Digital Converters; Cairn Diabolo Integrated Amplifier; Pure Sound A30 Integrated Valve Amplifier and Border Patrol Power Supply; Ensemble Fonobrio Phono Stage; Siltech Classic Anniversary Cables; Ingvar Öhman; Beth Hart; John Martyn's Solid Air...and more

Music Reviews
Vashti Bunyan, Mêlée, Angie Palmer, Leo Kottke, Brandi Carlile, Oumou Sangare, Carolyn Wonderland, Dan Auerbach, Peter Green, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Friendly Fires, Joe Bonamassa, Guns N’ Roses, Mark Selby, The Phantom Limb, Navaro, The Raconteurs, Eliza Gilkyson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Terje Rypdal, Janos Starker Celebration, Boccherini, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, Frédéric Chopin, Rubinstein, Balakirev, Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Dvorak, Brahms, Falla, Paganini, Fry Street Quartet, Beethoven and more...

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Music Matters by Alan Sircom
Despite better than expected results at the Bristol Show, 2009 is going to be a tough year all round. Those that survive tough times do so not simply by belt-tightening, but through enterprise, innovation, products that deserve to survive and good ol’ fashioned hard work – this applies as much to countries as it does to individuals. Unfortunately, there will be those who do all that and still fail...

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ANGER MANAGEMENT. No names, no pack-drill. Just a chance to leave no spleen unvented.
I’m not unbending, but I demand good performance from my hi-fi. I have a good turntable and CD player. Both get a lot of use and I get a lot from them. And, while I recognise that people are starting to retire their CD collections in order to burn them onto computers or music servers, it’s not for me. And that’s not because I don’t understand the concept or even fear the rise of computer...

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