Blogs
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Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 2
|What follows is a mostly pictorial survey of new headphone, earphone, and related products seen and heard at RMAF—some of which will become review subjects in Hi-Fi+ and/or our US-based sister publication The Absolute Sound ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 1
|Over roughly the past decade an alternate high-end audio universe has been emerging—a universe centered on very high-performance headphones, earphones, portable and desktop headphone amplifiers, and amp/DACS. In short, it is a world that might ...read more -
Exaktly Right?
|I deliberately waited a week to discuss a recent launch at Linn Products’ high-tech Glasgow factory. It allowed the ideas to sink in, and get past the ‘wow!’ stage. This is because among the group ...read more -
The fine art of downshifting
|With most economies in some form of recovery – albeit sometimes a baby-steps recovery – talk inevitably comes round to spending money once more. But we’ve all been turned by years of belt-tightening and gloom, ...read more -
A wee dram for Linn’s 40th
|Linn Products – without doubt the UK’s most important turntable manufacturer of recent times – is celebrating the 40th birthday of the company and its first product, with a special an very limited edition of ...read more -
Why I’m not drinking the hi-res Kool-Aid… yet!
|As an editor of an audiophile magazine, I obviously welcome any move that pushes the audio envelope. So recent announcements by the Consumer Electronics Association of increased focus on high-resolution audio (http://www.ce.org/News/News-Releases/Press-Releases/2013-Press-Releases/CEA-Announces-Expanded-Support-of-High-Resolution.aspx) and Sony’s launch ...read more -
Walls of Sound
|The trouble with loudspeakers is not everyone loves having them in the room. The other trouble with loudspeakers is they are generic and not designed for your room. Walls of Sound resolves both issues at ...read more -
Best of the Best: Stax SR-009 Electrostatic Headphone
|As we move into the second decade of the 21st century, it seems apparent that not only is traditional high-end audio thriving, but there has also sprung up an alternate, parallel high-end audio universe whose ...read more -
How Hi-Fi has changed (Hi-Fi+ issue 100)
|Looking back to 1999 shows how significantly the audio world has changed in the last decade and nearly a half. Back then, we were frantically buying our ‘final vinyl’ record players, because the continued descent ...read more -
Every Home Should Have One Special
|When it comes to re-issuing collectable records in super-duper, 180g ‘audiophile’ pressings, there’s no escaping the degree of cynicism that infects the process. As each re-issue label grows in size and popularity, it starts an ...read more -
Interview with PSB's Paul Barton on High-End Headphones
|Hi-Fi+ Publisher Chris Martens recently had an opportunity to catch up with Paul Barton, founder of and chief designer for PSB Speakers of Ontario, Canada. In particular, we took the opportunity to ask Mr. Barton ...read more -
Digitise your Vinyl
|With the seemingly inexorable move to the use of a computer as an audio source, there has never been a more appropriate time to consider ripping your existing music. Ripping CDs is relatively easy – ...read more -
First Listen: Abyss AB-1266 Planar Magnetic Headphones
|Is the $5,495 Abyss AB-1266 planar magnetic headphone the best device of its kind on the planet? Based on some preliminary listening I’ve recently done, I think it very well might be. However, what follows ...read more -
First Listen: Cavalli Audio Liquid Gold Fully-Balanced Headphone Amplifier
|Cavalli Audio will soon begin the first production run for a new, ultra-high-end solid-state, fully balanced headphone amplifier called the Liquid Gold (there may be an allusion to Harry Potter’s molten gold-coloured Felix Felicis potion ...read more -
Best of the Best - Music Albums, Reviewers Choice
|Just as we asked the writers to pick their most important pieces of equipment since Hi-Fi Plus began, we also asked them to pick some of their top music choices. The editorial ‘brief’ here was ...read more