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How to spend over a million bucks in Lisbon
|I had barely unpacked from Munich after High-End 2019 when it was time to nick off to Lisbon in Portugal for a spot of ultra-high-end listening. Lisbon is a beautiful city, but this was one ...read more -
Node Audio Hylixa stand-mount loudspeaker
|Node Audio is a brand-new operation that’s both radical and unusual. Situated a few miles south of Cambridge, Node shares an advanced manufacturing facility with a hi-tech engineering company. Its two key principals are Ashley ...read more -
Revel Performa M126Be stand-mount loudspeaker
|Revel is the high point in Harman’s extensive range of loudspeaker brands; it has the luxury of sharing facilities with JBL, but doesn’t have to make mass market products in the way that behemoth does. ...read more -
Focal Maestro Utopia Evo floorstanding loudspeaker
|In a worId where fashions and faces change with alarming regularity, Focal’s distinctive Utopia series loudspeakers are about as close to a permanent fixture as you can get. Of course, there have been massive evolutionary ...read more -
YAR Y-der loudspeakers, B-yond amp, Feeld platforms, YAR cables
|Let’s start with that name; it’s not an acronym. Everyone in the audio world is so programmed to see the letters ‘A’ and ‘R’ together and assume they have a meaning that one of the ...read more -
Win! Russell K Red 50 loudspeakers worth £1,100
|We have partnered up with our friends from Russell K to bring you an exciting competition for a chance to win a pair of Red 50 loudspeakers worth £1,100… Our most recent review from the ...read more -
Elipson Prestige Facet 24F floorstanding loudspeaker
|Elipson is France’s oldest speaker brand. Founded in 1938, it ran as an independent company until 2008 and during that time never exported its products. Which says a lot for the strength and patriotism of ...read more -
XTZ Divine Delta stand-mount loudspeaker
|Let’s start in the middle here. No matter how you slice it, irrespective of how good or bad you think the XTZ Divine Delta is in sonic terms, as a value-for-money proposition, it’s outstanding. All ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Introduction and Loudspeakers of the year
|Toward the end of every year, the Hi-Fi+ team gets together and discusses the finest products we have seen over a range of categories in the last 12 months. This short-list gets whittled down until ...read more -
Swisstone (by Graham Audio) LS3 stand-mount loudspeaker
|I was struggling to come up with a hook for the new LS3 by Swisstone, another famous brand from the 1970s brought back to life by Graham Audio. Then, I bought a suit for a ...read more -
REL T-Zero V2 subwoofer
|One of the last subwoofers we looked at was the REL T-Zero. In fact, we looked at two of them. This year, the company subtly changed the T-Zero. So subtly you’d hardly notice at first ...read more -
ELAC Vela BS 403 stand‑mount loudspeakers
|ELAC has clearly grasped that if you are to sell loudspeakers to an audience that would instead prefer things were invisible (or at least no bigger than a Coke can), you have to make it ...read more -
Dynaudio Xeo 20 active stand-mount loudspeaker
|Dynaudio is that rare combination of industry titan and innovator. Typically, brands get large, then they get hide-bound by their own conventions, and smaller, more agile companies come along and develop new concepts for the ...read more -
Raidho XT-5 floorstanding loudspeaker
|The XT-5 is a Raidho speaker, but it’s a Raidho speaker with a difference. If you think you know how it’s going to sound, best think again. When Alan Sircom reviewed the company’s flagship model, ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 606 stand-mount loudspeaker
|Things are afoot in Steyning. Bowers & Wilkins’ research facility in the sleepy Sussex town is being broken down and boxed up, but fear not; this is not the end of the UK’s most extensively ...read more