Blogs
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Meet Your Maker - Karl-Heinz Fink of Finkteam
|This one’s a little different because Fink Audio Consulting and Karl-Heinz Fink are not so much ‘maker’ as ‘gun for hire’. Well, almost: the company does make the Finkteam WM-4 loudspeaker (see below) and more ...read more -
Munich High End 2018 – Final Thoughts
|Munich was possibly a little more subdued than usual. This wasn’t just because the show coincided with a national holiday in Germany, and the subdued nature wasn’t necessarily reflected in the number of exhibitors or ...read more -
Munich High-End 2018 – Part Two
|As ever the Munich High-End show is the most important part of the audio calendar today. It doesn’t matter who you are, how big or how small, basically unless you are at Death’s door (financially ...read more -
Naim to the rescue!
|I recently received a frantic message from a friend with whom I sing in Salisbury Cathedral. Susie Lamb is the Director of Music of the Salisbury Cathedral School. The message contained images of an amplifier ...read more -
David A Wilson II (1944-2018)
|I have written many hundreds of thousands of words on audio, tens of thousands of them about Wilson Audio Specialities. But these are some of the toughest words I have to write: Dave Wilson, founder ...read more -
Munich High End 2018 – Part One
|So much hi-fi, so little time. That’s what it feels like on day one at Europe’s biggest gathering of the high fidelity clans, and to make matters worse they all have a press launch on ...read more -
‘GDPR’: What is it, and why does it matter to you?
|Those of you who subscribe to our newsletter will have received an email from us yesterday (May 15) about something called ‘GDPR’, or General Data Protection Regulation*. Most UK and European readers will already be ...read more -
Insights from AXPONA 2018 part three
|In commissioning our three-man team to find the best at AXPONA, I expected there to be some overlap. While Chris Martens focused on personal audio, Eric Neff and I concentrated on the halls and floors ...read more -
Insights from AXPONA 2018 part two
|As discussed elsewhere, AXPONA has moved to a new venue, the spacious Renaissance Hotel and Convention center in Schaumberg, IL. near Chicago. The extra space was well used as this was the largest AXPONA ever ...read more -
Insights from AXPONA 2018 part one
|Rather than offer our usual and typically quite elaborate show reports, the Hi-Fi+ team this year decided to take a simpler, less-is-more, freeform approach to our coverage of AXPONA 2018, which was held April 13th ...read more -
First Listen – Naim ND5 XS 2, NDX 2, ND 555 streamers
|Naim Audio changed its Uniti line of integrated amplifier/streamer products in 2016/17. This left the Classic models holding to Naim’s older streaming system. That is all to change (almost) with the launch of three new ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata Research
|As part of our Hi-Fi+ Guide to Audio Cables & Power Products 2017 (available as a free download online at hifiplus.com/buyers_guides/6/) we spoke to Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata Research about his discoveries in cable and ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Cables
|Digital Audio Cable Clearer Audio Silver-Line Optimus Reference 75 This pure 75 ohm digital interconnect cable (£975/1.5m as tested) is a coaxial design, featuring a central 6N (99.9999%) OCC silver central conductor, and micron-thick silver-plating ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Accessories and Power Products
|Accessory Vicoustic Multifuser DC 2 The Portuguese firm Vicoustic aims to “provide the best products for acoustic treatment” with the goal of “enhancing rooms for great sound combined with the best possible design.” A fine ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Personal Audio electronics
|Portable headphone amp/DAC Chord Electronics Hugo2 The original Chord Hugo revolutionised the notion of what could be done with portable audio. Now the new £1,800 Hugo2 almost doubles the original’s already impressive number of filter ...read more