Blogs
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Hi-Fi+ Awards: Loudspeakers
|Cost-no-object loudspeaker Wilson WAMM Master Chronosonic Dave Wilson’s first commercial loudspeaker venture was the Wilson Audio Modular Monitor. As the name suggests, this loudspeaker used a series of modular cabinets for bass, midrange, and treble ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Amplifiers
|Power amplifier Vitus Audio SS-103 Replacing the awesome Vitus Audio SS-102 power amplifier, the SS-103 now stands at top of the company’s Signature series. This £30,000 stereo power amplifier is an imposing 90kg beast, and ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Introduction
|It’s that time again. Our annual awards – bigger and better than ever – have come to be an important part of the Hi-Fi+ calendar. Every year, we listen to hundreds of fine products in ...read more -
Exclusive First Listen – Magico A3
|Magico is one of those brands that helps redefine the shape and scope of the high-end loudspeaker world. Although it has made some products that fit into the ‘attainable’ end of that market (such as ...read more -
The love affair – Devialet and the Royal Albert Hall
|Devialet is no stranger to working in famous 19th Century classical music venues. It already has a 16-Phantom installation in the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris. But now a little slice of musical Entente ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer – The Source AV
|There is a joke that sometimes circulates around the American high-end audio fraternity, which goes something like this: Q “What do you call a high-end audio store that also does home theatre?” A “A home ...read more -
We need to talk about Las Vegas… one last time.
|About this time each year, the whole tech world points its gaze upon Las Vegas for the annual CES. Typically, as I write this, I would be sitting in a departure lounge with dozens of ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Bowers & Wilkins
|Although most of what Bowers & Wilkins manufactures now comes out of China, the prestigious 800 Series and Nautilus loudspeakers are still made by hand in a factory in Worthing, on the south coast of ...read more -
An Audiophile EDC
|Every Day Carry, or EDC, is fast becoming a popular pastime among some sections of the online community. It’s an excuse for men to categorise everything and photograph their lives in minute detail, without the ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: The Listening Suite
|Most of our Meet Your Dealer sessions are relatively standard issue. They revolve around a series of answers to a stock set of questions. Occasionally though, this concept is abandoned because what the dealer in ...read more -
Charley Hansen 1956-2017
|November 2017 has been a tough month for the audio industry: we lost some of the greats in our little world. Arnie Nudell of Infinity fame, Dick Shahinian of Shahinian Acoustics Ltd, and Charley Hansen ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: Deco Audio
|Deco Audio in Aylesbury is perhaps the most traditional audio store opened recently in the UK, but that’s perhaps understandable, as it extends the long and significant tradition of having fine audio stores in the ...read more -
Zagreb AV Show
|Run by the Croatian hifimedia magazine, the Zagreb AV Show is one of the secret regular fixtures on the audio calendar. In its 23rd year, this is a comparatively small show, reflecting both the size ...read more -
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (Part Two of Two)
|In our final part of our round-up of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (Editor’s note: delayed on the part of the Editor due to illness of the Editor), Roy Gregory trawls Denver in search of the ...read more -
Raising the Bar (a preview): AudioNet Stern preamplifier and Heisenberg monoblock power amplifiers
|Early in 2017 I took two opportunities to hear a very special audio system located in the large listening room at the GTT Audio facility in Long Valley, New Jersey, USA. The system was comprised ...read more