Blogs
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King of the Castle
|Sometimes in listening to really good audio, there’s a sense of ‘always the bridesmaid, never the bride!’ Manufacturers, show-goers, and reviewers alike often hear a system that might be very good, but seldom do we ...read more -
The Truth About High‑Resolution Audio
|Perhaps one of the more interesting developments we have seen in the world of audio in recent years is the rise in the availability of high-resolution recordings, together with the equipment necessary to play these ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Top 100: Schitt to Zanden
|Our final round of the best products from the finest brands of the last 20 years, covering products made from early 1999 to 2019. Please note, this feature was in celebration of Hi-Fi+ twenty years ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Top 100: Lyra to Roon
|The third 25 of our round-up of the best products from the finest brands of the last 20 years, covering products made from early 1999 to 2019. Please note, this feature was in celebration of ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Top 100: dCS to Linn Products
|The second 25 of our round-up of the best products from the finest brands of the last 20 years, covering products made from early 1999 to 2019. Please note, this feature was in celebration of ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Top 100: 1More to Dan Clark Audio
|Over the last 20 years, Hi-Fi+ has amassed a significant number of product reviews. More than 2,800 in fact, which at a rough guess works out at almost three million words of reviews about some ...read more -
Turntable accessories
|Depending on your viewpoint, the best – or the worst – thing about vinyl is that it breeds a host of aftermarket gadgets, many of which are not simply derived from the purest snake oil, ...read more -
Coming Soon (maybe): Magnepan's compact '30.7 for Condos'
|I have just returned from an audio pilgrimage to Magnepan headquarters in White Bear Lake, Minnesota (a small community on the northeast side of the Minneapolis/St. Paul 'Twin Cities' area). What was the reason for ...read more -
Sound Tasting, KEF style
|While the collective audio industry rolls out endless analogies with cars, watches, and cameras, there is also a lot of commonality between the world of good audio and that of good wine. We both have ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Pete Thomas, PMC loudspeakers
|Founded 28 years ago, PMC was born out of a desire to make better loudspeakers. While I doubt there’s a loudspeaker brand on the planet that wouldn’t lay claim to that statement, in PMC at ...read more -
Music Interview: John Challenger, Asst. Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral
|John Challenger is the Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral. You don’t get to do that job unless you are uniquely passionate about both the music and the sound it makes within that 800-year-old ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer - Cloney Audio, Dublin, Ireland
|In Ireland, there is one audio store that – above all – has come to represent all things ‘hi-fi’ and that is Cloney Audio. Cloney Audio opened for business in 1966 when Noel Cloney returned ...read more -
How to spend over a million bucks in Lisbon
|I had barely unpacked from Munich after High-End 2019 when it was time to nick off to Lisbon in Portugal for a spot of ultra-high-end listening. Lisbon is a beautiful city, but this was one ...read more -
Munich High-End 2019: A tale of two Magicos
|Our coverage of audio shows is now more commonly placed within the confines of the magazine itself, rather than published online. However, the short-form show report doesn’t fully represent some important aspects of audio that ...read more -
Issue 170 and Hi-Fi+ Playlists
|Our bumper 20thanniversary issue is about to hit the streets in the US, and as a taster of what is on offer, we’ve decided on something wholly new. We have just created a Spotify playlist ...read more