Blogs
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Messenger's Masterpieces
|I might be well stuck in the past myself, but I am not entirely unaware of the devices that today’s youthful consumers use for music listening. The £70 Frankenspiel FS-1 is just such a device. ...read more -
Portrait of a musician: Enrique Mazzola, conductor
|Editor’s Note: Branko Bozic of Audiofreaks has rarely been so animated and inspired as he is by conductor Enrique Mazzola. Bozic first contacted us about writing a feature on Mazzola about a year ago. On ...read more -
The Martens Miscellany
|Wish lists not only tell us a lot about the kinds of objects we prize, but also help explain why we prize them. With that thought in mind, I’ve done a bit of head scratching ...read more -
The Kennedy Collection
|Like most reviewers, I listen to about a shop’s worth of great audio kit in an average year, but inevitably some of it is just that bit better than the rest, making me wish that ...read more -
CES Scene: Ten Fascinating New Headphones & related components
|As many Hi-Fi+ readers know, I am an ardent fan of all things headphone-related, so naturally I volunteered to cover the product category at CES. What I present, below, is a handpicked list of ten ...read more -
We need to talk about Vegas!
|OK, I kind of want this to be a genuine discussion topic, not simply an excuse for spleen venting or attacks on people, places, or things. But there are grumblings within the audio industry that ...read more -
David Bowie (1947-2016) – a personal tribute
|I was somewhere over the Atlantic when the news about the death of David Bowie broke. As the 747 landed at Gatwick, practically a plane full of text messages rang out in unison. I saw ...read more -
First Listen: HiFiMAN Edition X planar magnetic headphone
|Hi-Fi+ has actively followed the evolution of HiFiMAN planar headphone designs, most recently taking a long and careful look at the firm’s impressive flagship model: the HE 1000, which has received recognition as our ‘Cost ...read more -
Roy's Round Up
|We live in a world that seems to treat the terms “high-end” and “high-priced” as interchangeable. But they’re not, and nor should you ever accept that they are. High-end is all about attitude and thinking, ...read more -
New Year's Resolutions
|New Year is the time of making resolutions that you are destined to break by mid January. The longest I managed to stick to my resolutions was back in my college years, when I vowed ...read more -
Big speakers, bold vinyl, and beer!
|I’m not sure I was particularly good this year, so I didn’t have any great expectations that anything featured below would find their way into my Christmas stocking (and fitting some of them into a ...read more -
Naim 'DR' power amps and upgrades
|In the wake of the ambitious NAC S1 and NAP S1 Statement project, Naim Audio has recently revised its ‘classic’ amplifier line up to incorporate some of the more significant advances resulting from the exhaustive ...read more -
What Santa didn't bring this year!
|A list of Christmas presents dreamed up by reviewers could be seen as an exercise in self‑indulgence. We get to play with all the toys, all the time anyway. So, in audiophile terms, every day ...read more -
Breaking the wrong record?
|There are some valuable records out there. Earlier this month, Ringo Starr’s ‘No. 0000001’ copy of The Beatles (also known as the White Album) achieved $790,000 at auction, and a copy of The Sex Pistols ...read more -
The L-Word
|The high-end audio world can be an odd place. It makes products that should be unashamedly in the luxury market, yet seems afraid of ‘the L-word’. While people who actually buy audio today seem perfectly ...read more