Blogs
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Breaking the isolation: Concerts in your home
|As we are all coming to terms with locking down to beat this medical tornado called COVID-19, many of us are also having to come to terms with missing a season of great concerts and ...read more -
That escalated quickly!
|It seems like a lifetime ago that we were arguing over the validity of cancelling Munich High-End 2020. It was just two weeks ago. It seems equally crazy that a week ago, people were saying ...read more -
The Rails – ‘This record is definitely more us…’
|English husband and wife duo The Rails – James Walbourne and Kami Thompson – have just made their best album yet. Recorded in London at the start of 2019, Cancel The Sun – their third ...read more -
AXPONA, Coronavirus, and you…
|Following last week’s announcement that the Munich High End show has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, we regret to announce that AXPONA Audio Expo North American has been postponed. The show – originally ...read more -
Munich, Coronavirus, and you...
|It won’t have escaped the notice of most audiophiles, but Munich High-End has been cancelled this year, due to the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. As the largest, and most important show on the audio ...read more -
The Bristol Show 2020 – A Ray of Hope
|We don’t typically publish show reports online; instead we keep them as effectively a replacement to news in the magazine. We run a very small team here and no matter how fast we try to ...read more -
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