Hi-Fi Choice

Hi-Fi Choice is the essential guide to audio excellence in the home. It is a no-nonsense guide to the finest products available, from vinyl and valves, to multi-channel digital audio and high-fidelity video. Hi-Fi Choice sorts the best from the rest with rigorous test processes and a highly experienced team of reviewers.

Welcome

Past perfected • Latest addition to UK company’s Heritage speaker series

Set the tone • Tonearm improvements from UK company

Pick a colour… • Customisation offer from Denmark

Hear the Nus • MF’s updated integrated

Xtra, read all about it! • Affordable new upgrade cables

Stands that deliver • Bespoke speaker supports from Norway

Flower power • Korean network streamer arrives in the UK

The surreal thing • A pair of new products from Scandinavia

Soul systems • New to the UK – Serbian company delivers turntable and tonearm

Light and fantastic • Second-generation cartilage conductor headphones

Let’s go retro • Tiny new music player

Plug in! • Cold-welded audio connectors from Scotland

A-listers • Upgraded UK speaker line

Sounds squared • Updated UK speaker range

Perfect match • New vacuum valve/tube phono equaliser

Into the woods • High-end open-back headphone launch

Sound and vision • New easy-fit soundbar

Dressed to thrill • Portable audio player gets a new coat

Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2025 • As the first major UK show of the year, Bristol sets the stage for what’s coming in 2025. Ed Selley reports on some of the many highlights on display.

Total Ellipse of the heart • Mark Craven marvels as one of the originators of the digital active loudspeaker unveils its wireless desktop offering

Fosi logic • Want high-end sound for piggy-bank money? David Vivian goes in search of the ultimate hi-fi hack with this dynamic duo

Loving it! • The Calon is Vertere’s statement phono stage with a price tag to match. Ed Selley discovers if it meets expectations

Smarter speakers • The Technics ‘system in a pair of speakers’ aims high. Andrew Everard discovers whether or not it hits its target

Supersonic • Wharfedale’s Heritage project delivers a further upgrade of a design dating back 60 years. Andrew Everard gets nostalgic

Theory of EVOlution • Pro-Ject’s ‘sub Debut’ range of turntables is now a substantial offering in its own right. Ed Selley meets the T1 EVO family

Nu metal • Cyrus products have looked much alike for years, but now the 40 AMP is here to usher in a new era. Ed Selley rings the changes

S Club Heaven • Germany’s T+A has long been a champion of ‘line source’ floorstanders and its S 530 is the entry model to the concept

“The perfect loudspeaker shouldn’t add to or take away from the original music” • Spies, DIY speakers and the seaside – the Bowers & Wilkins story has it all. Here’s how the UK giant started out…

BOWERS & WILKINS RANGE HIGHLIGHTS

Looking forward • Andy Kerr, Director of Product Marketing and Communications, on B&W’s future direction

HFC HIGHLIGHTS

Missed an issue? • Have you missed a copy of your favourite hi-fi magazine? You can now order Hi-Fi Choice back issues online

Selling the dream • For a long time Audio equipment has been the subject of trendy adverts to coax you into making a purchase. Neville Roberts stumbles across a book devoted to the topic

The name game • Steve Sutherland reckons solving the Da Vinci Code would be simpler than making any sense of the hi-fi industry’s insistence of giving its products mind-boggling titles

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