Blogs
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Hi-Fi+ Awards – The Best of the Best
|2016 was something of a tumultuous year, both in and out of the audio world. Although audio is an extremely mature branch of consumer electronics, in recent years it has seen some significant changes, as ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Mark Fenlon, from Markaudio-SOTA
|Some engineers are best described as ‘laconic’. Some take that a stage further and are effectively monosyllabic. This is completely understandable, as their job does not necessarily include a social interaction element. However, Mark Fenlon ...read more -
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