Blogs
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CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 1
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...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: Personal Audio Electronics
|Desktop Headphone System of the Year Questyle ‘Golden Reference’ Stack Like dCS’s powerful Vivaldi digital playback system, the Questyle stack relies on four separate boxes to deliver what might just be the ultimate in headphone ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Earphones and Custom-fit In-ear Monitors
|Value-Priced Earphone of the Year 1More E1001 Triple-Driver The value end of the earphone market is hotly contested, but 1More’s flagship E1001 Triple-Driver has more than made a space for itself. The design employs a ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Headphones
|Value-Priced Headphone of the Year Meze 99 Classics The first product out of Antonio Meze’s Romanian headphone lab, the Model 99 Classics are a closed-back design featuring a 40mm full-range Mylar transducer with a Neodymium ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Loudspeakers
|Digital Loudspeaker of the Year Devialet Gold Phantom A wholly new category for this year, so why not pick the leader of the pack? The rise in wired or wirelessly connected, active loudspeakers has been ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Innovation of the Year
|Magico M3 floorstanding loudspeaker It might seem strange giving any first-of-its-kind of ‘innovation’ award to a loudspeaker, as they are typically some of the most resistant to change products in any audio system, but the ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Cables, Power, and Accessories
|Analogue Audio Cable of the Year Chord Sarum Super ARAY Until the recent launch of ChordMusic, Sarum in all its guises was Chord’s top cable. The latest version – Super ARAY – uses a tuned ...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 -
Meet Your Maker: Marc Gomez of SAT
|The Swedish Analog Technologies tonearm caused quite a stir when first seen a couple of years ago. Primarily that stir came about because of the arm’s very high price (it is one of just two ...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 -
Meet Your Maker: Mark Fenlon, from Markaudio-SOTA
|Some engineers are best described as ‘laconic’. Some take that a stage further and are effectively monosyllabic. This is completely understandable, as their job does not necessarily include a social interaction element. However, Mark Fenlon ...read more -
Bristol: Best in Show!
|We don't have much to go on photographically, but there were some outstanding sounds at Bristol Sound & Vision. Some of them were outstanding for all the wrong reasons, but there were some really, really ...read more