Blogs
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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 -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Cables, Power Products, and Accessories of the year
|Accessory of the Year: Critical Mass Systems CenterStage2 Although Critical Mass Systems is best known for its large and heavy rack systems, perhaps its most important product is the CenterStage2, a range of three equipment ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Personal Audio products of the year
|High-End Headphone of the Year: MrSpeakers VOCE MrSpeakers is led by Dan Clark, a keen-eared headphone enthusiast and an engineer’s engineer. The company takes its name from an earlier phase in Clark’s career where he ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Product of the year
|Zanden Audio SystemsModel 3000 MkII line preamplifier and Model 9600 MkII mono power amplifiers Zanden Audio Systems remarkable line of valve-oriented electronics are not exactly unknown to us at Hi-Fi+. In fact, since 1999, we’ve ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Analogue Components of the year
|Turntable of the Year: Kuzma Stabi R Kuzma’s latest turntable is a fully modular integrated design, with an internal power supply, and spaces to mount a number of arm wings and additional arm balconies, in ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Digital Audio Components of the year
|Disc Player or Transport of the Year: Chord Electronics Blu MkII The CD, we are told, has had its day. Everyone who’s anyone is streaming nowadays and using a format that was first launched in ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Amplifiers of the year
|Power Amplifier of the Year: Audio Research Corporation Reference 160M Audio Research has a fine reputation for making excellent valve power amplifiers, cemented in place over almost half a century. But in Audio Research’s 48-year ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Introduction and Loudspeakers of the year
|Toward the end of every year, the Hi-Fi+ team gets together and discusses the finest products we have seen over a range of categories in the last 12 months. This short-list gets whittled down until ...read more -
Acronym Acquisition Syndrome (AAS)
|There is a shadow hanging over the audio industry ATM. IMHO, the problem is compromising the sales of some extremely good consumer electronics, not only in traditional audio electronics, but in the worlds of AV, ...read more