Blogs
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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 -
Bristol Sound & Vision Show 2017
|The 30th annual Sound & Vision Show at the Marriott City Centre Hotel in the heart of Bristol is a unique event. It’s a dealer-run show, organised by Audio T (in association with What Hi-Fi ...read more -
The Clarity Alliance Awards
|For the last five years, the Bristol Sound & Vision Show has also been home to the Clarity Alliance awards. The Clarity Alliance is a trade association within the UK for promoting the benefits of ...read more -
What could possibly go wrong?
|Last week, the 30th Annual Bristol Sound & Vision Show took place, in its spiritual home of the Marriott City Centre Hotel in the middle of Bristol. I’ve attended probably 25 of those 30 shows ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 3
|This is Part 3 of Hi-Fi+’s three-part photo-essay covering the recent CanJam NYC event. Noble At CanJam London 2016, Noble Audio introduced its Katana universal-fit earphones and CIEMs to favourable critical response. In fact, Hi-Fi+ ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 2
|This is Part 2 of Hi-Fi+’s three-part photo-essay covering the recent CanJam NYC event. Dekoni Dekoni is a firm I met for the first time at CanJam NYC and whose mission is to offer extremely ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 1
|On the weekend of 4-5 February 2017, Hi-Fi+ was pleased to attend the first ever CanJam event held in New York City, and what an event it proved to be. Held in the Marriott Marquis ...read more -
Being consistent
|An interesting thing came out of last month’s CES. Because there were fewer exhibitors in high-end audio, it meant those of us reporting on the show didn’t need to take the sort of rigid ‘beat’ ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: Midland Audio X-Change
|One of the most important high‑end dealers in the UJ, Midland Audio X-change is centrally located, has a great store, and a product list to die for. The company, run by longstanding dealer of note ...read more -
Meet Your Maker special: What changes were made to the dCS Vivaldi 2.0?
|How Does It Work? After oversampling and digital filtering, the audio is re-encoded as five bits of noise-shaped data and passed to the Ring DAC™ Board. Here the five-bit binary data is mapped onto the ...read more -
Chris Martens’ Best of CES 2017: Traditional Two-Channel Audio
|In a break with past practice, where Hi-Fi+ coverage efforts at CES and other shows have been both exhaustive and, to be honest, exhausting (as is, “Man, that’s a lot of gear to cover in ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer - Adams Audio
|A few years ago, a number of audio dealers added a custom install arm to their portfolio. Very few went in the other direction. Adams Audio is the exception. Starting out of Custom Electronic Design’s ...read more -
Chris Martens’ Best of CES 2017: Personal Audio
|In a break with past practice, where Hi-Fi+ coverage efforts at CES and other shows have been both exhaustive and, to be honest, exhausting (as is, “Man, that’s a lot of gear to cover in ...read more -
CES 2017: Reflections from Day Four
|The last day at CES is often a quiet day, and this year was no exception. Nevertheless, that gives us time to get a lot done in a relatively short day, because there are so ...read more -
CES 2017: Reflections from Day Three
|The Saturday at CES was one of the busiest days for the Venetian Tower, with trade visitor numbers peaking in the mid-morning. This gave the show more dynamism and energy than seen during the first ...read more