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Hi-Fi+ Interviews Jude Mansilla of Head-Fi and Ethan Opolion of CanJam Global - Part 1
|Head-Fi is without a doubt the largest online community of headphone and personal audio enthusiasts in the world, while CanJam Global is an organisation that, under the auspices of Head-Fi, produces an international series of ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Interviews Jude Mansilla of Head-Fi and Ethan Opolion of CanJam Global - Part 2
|Head-Fi is without a doubt the largest online community of headphone and personal audio enthusiasts in the world, while CanJam Global is an organisation that, under the auspices of Head-Fi, produces an international series of ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Introduction and trends
|With the changes in dynamic at CES, Munich High End has become the main event on the audio calendar. The show – running this year from the 18th to the 21st of May at the ...read more -
A Tale of Two Cities
|We’ve been holding out on one of the two recent launches, in part because our counterparts over at The Absolute Sound covered the Sonus faber launch so well. But the recent launch of the new ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Digital Audio and Amplification (Part Two)
|Continuing my ‘beat’ covering digital audio and amplification (with an awful lot of loudspeakers, analogue sources, and cables thrown in for good measure), April’s AXPONA event in Chicago is fast becoming one of the main ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Digital Audio and Amplification (Part One)
|The Axpona (Audio Expo of North America) show in Rosemont Illinois has become the largest Audio show in the US. Occupying 8 floors and 140 rooms the show dominates the Westin O’Hare for a three ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: Robbie Trim at Audio Oasis
|Some of the smaller audio stores seem to spring up out of nowhere. Audio Oasis is different. Based in Fordingbridge, in Hampshire, Audio Oasis is the work of Robbie Trim, whose roots go way back. ...read more -
Stand Your Ground
|For years, one of the best-kept secrets in hi-fi has been that the single most cost-effective upgrade you can make to any system (regardless of price or ambition) is to provide it with a dedicated ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Amplification
|Integrated Amplifier of the Year Ayre Acoustics AX-5 Twenty In making the AX-5 Twenty, Ayre Acoustics pulled together many important elements of design from existing higher-end Ayre amps into what has become the company’s only ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Digital Audio
|DAC of the Year Chord Electronics DAVE Some awards categories were difficult to choose, and notionally that could have applied to the fast-moving and extremely competitive DAC market. In fact, there’s really only one DAC ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards – The Best of the Best
|2016 was something of a tumultuous year, both in and out of the audio world. Although audio is an extremely mature branch of consumer electronics, in recent years it has seen some significant changes, as ...read more -
Japanese record label Ottava announces first MQA compact disc
|From the Ottava/MQA press release: A recording by Astor Piazzolla “the single most important figure in the history of tango” will be the first MQA recording to be released on compact disc in Japan. The ...read more -
Stylus Show 2017
|From the Chester Group press release: The UK’s first show devoted to all things Vinyl, Stylus returns for a second year and moves to a new venue: the MacDonald Hotel & Spa in Manchester. Taking ...read more -
Bristol Sound & Vision Show 2017
|The 30th annual Sound & Vision Show at the Marriott City Centre Hotel in the heart of Bristol is a unique event. It’s a dealer-run show, organised by Audio T (in association with What Hi-Fi ...read more -
The Clarity Alliance Awards
|For the last five years, the Bristol Sound & Vision Show has also been home to the Clarity Alliance awards. The Clarity Alliance is a trade association within the UK for promoting the benefits of ...read more