Blogs
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The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Cables, Power Products, and Accessories of the year
|Accessory of the Year: Critical Mass Systems CenterStage2 Although Critical Mass Systems is best known for its large and heavy rack systems, perhaps its most important product is the CenterStage2, a range of three equipment ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Personal Audio products of the year
|High-End Headphone of the Year: MrSpeakers VOCE MrSpeakers is led by Dan Clark, a keen-eared headphone enthusiast and an engineer’s engineer. The company takes its name from an earlier phase in Clark’s career where he ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Product of the year
|Zanden Audio SystemsModel 3000 MkII line preamplifier and Model 9600 MkII mono power amplifiers Zanden Audio Systems remarkable line of valve-oriented electronics are not exactly unknown to us at Hi-Fi+. In fact, since 1999, we’ve ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Analogue Components of the year
|Turntable of the Year: Kuzma Stabi R Kuzma’s latest turntable is a fully modular integrated design, with an internal power supply, and spaces to mount a number of arm wings and additional arm balconies, in ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Digital Audio Components of the year
|Disc Player or Transport of the Year: Chord Electronics Blu MkII The CD, we are told, has had its day. Everyone who’s anyone is streaming nowadays and using a format that was first launched in ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Amplifiers of the year
|Power Amplifier of the Year: Audio Research Corporation Reference 160M Audio Research has a fine reputation for making excellent valve power amplifiers, cemented in place over almost half a century. But in Audio Research’s 48-year ...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 -
Acronym Acquisition Syndrome (AAS)
|There is a shadow hanging over the audio industry ATM. IMHO, the problem is compromising the sales of some extremely good consumer electronics, not only in traditional audio electronics, but in the worlds of AV, ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Kazutoshi Yamada, Zanden Audio Systems
|We spoke to Kazutoshi Yamada – President of Zanden Audio Systems – during a recent brief tour of Europe. Unlike many manufacturers and designers in the audio business, Yamada-san didn’t take the usual route of ...read more -
Interview: Wes Berwise of WBSSmedia
|Wes Berwise is a clever man. He has been passionate about his music for as long as he can remember, and was an avid collector from his school days. His love of music in all ...read more -
Sneak Peek: Hi-Fi+ Awards – Accessory of the Year
|Although Critical Mass Systems is best known for its large and heavy rack systems, perhaps its most important product is the CenterStage2, a range of three equipment support feet designed to correct physical impedance mismatching ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Xuanqian Wang of AURALiC
|AURALiC hit the ground running a few years ago with its affordable range of digital audio products designed for audiophile and headphonista alike. That would be enough for most brands and we’d see nothing more ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Karl-Heinz Fink of Finkteam
|This one’s a little different because Fink Audio Consulting and Karl-Heinz Fink are not so much ‘maker’ as ‘gun for hire’. Well, almost: the company does make the Finkteam WM-4 loudspeaker (see below) and more ...read more -
Munich High End 2018 – Final Thoughts
|Munich was possibly a little more subdued than usual. This wasn’t just because the show coincided with a national holiday in Germany, and the subdued nature wasn’t necessarily reflected in the number of exhibitors or ...read more -
Munich High-End 2018 – Part Two
|As ever the Munich High-End show is the most important part of the audio calendar today. It doesn’t matter who you are, how big or how small, basically unless you are at Death’s door (financially ...read more