Blogs
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Meet Your Maker: Mads Klifoth, Audiovector
|Danish loudspeaker expert Audiovector is no stranger to the pages of Hi-Fi+. The company has picked up many awards for its loudspeaker designs (both in this magazine and elsewhere) and many of the reviewers have ...read more -
Music Interview: Matt James of Gene
|To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their 1995 debut album, Olympian, anthemic ‘90s indie-Britrock band Gene have had their back catalogue reissued by Demon Music Group. The Deluxe Edition vinyl box set, Gene: The Albums, ...read more -
Salisbury Meditation – Music for the NHS
|Hi-Fi+ has something of a connection with Salisbury in general and Salisbury Cathedral in particular. And while 2020 was a year where the cathedral was often stilled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 has seen ...read more -
WIN! One of two sets of four Kuzma Damper Feet worth £600 per set must be won!!!
|We have teamed up with turntable and anti-vibration experts Kuzma for two chances to win a set of four of the company’s excellent dampers, each set worth £600! Alan Sircom reviewed Kuzma’s Damper Feet alongside ...read more -
Idris Muhammad: Kabsha
|While ostensibly seeming like a jazz footnote compared to New York City or Los Angeles, San Francisco remains a thriving centre of jazz development. The progressive jazz recorded in San Francisco in the last quarter ...read more -
Blue Note Re:imagined
|It says something when arguably the most important label in jazz comes to London to find artists to cover classic tunes from its enviable back catalogue. And what it says is London is where it’s ...read more -
Music Interview: Emma Swift
|A few years ago, when she was struck down by crippling depression and suffering from writer’s block, Nashville-based country artist Emma Swift turned to Bob Dylan for help. “I began singing his songs as a ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Luis Fernandes, finite elemente
|German high-end equipment support masters finite elemente had a bit of a troubled decade during the 2010s, but the brand is back, with greater focus than seen in years. A few years ago the brand ...read more -
Emma Swift: Blonde On The Tracks
|Australian-born country singer-songwriter Emma Swift’s Blonde On The Tracks is a collection of covers of some of her favourite Bob Dylan songs and it’s perfectly timed. Bob is back with his best album in years, ...read more -
Staying in is the new going out
|One of the first statistics published in January, the country’s main music industry body – the British Phonographic Industry – is keen to tell the world just how many records, CDs, downloads, streamed songs and ...read more -
Going to Ground
|Editor’s Note: In the development of his highly respected digital audio components, Scott Berry of Computer Audio Design discovered the impact of High Frequency ground noise. Later, he found this signal ground noise also impacted ...read more -
Music Interview: Jason Brewer, The Explorer's Club
|During the first Covid-19 lockdown, one of the albums that kept me sane was the new, self-titled record by The Explorers Club. Paying homage to the lush orchestrations of Phil Spector and Burt Bacharach, as ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Cardas Audio
|Cardas Audio is based in the coastal town of Bandon, Oregon. The town is well known for the annual Cranberry festival (their local harvest), its beaches, cheese, golf and rock formations... and one of the ...read more -
Music Interview: Dan Penn
|I’m talking to a songwriting legend, although I’m a bit worried that I can’t hear everything he’s saying. Dan Penn, Southern soul singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, is on the phone to me from ...read more -
The Who: Who’s Next (Deluxe Edition) HR
|Anyone who saw the trailer for the movie American Beauty will have been struck by the brilliance of ‘Baba O’Riley’, the track chosen to accompany it and which effectively doubled the impact of the clip. ...read more