Hi Fi News

Since its launch in June 1956 - two years before the commercial realisation of stereo - Hi-Fi News & Record Review has been delivering insightful reviews of the key products and technologies that lie behind our shared hobby... the passion of listening to music on the very best equipment available to the enthusiast. Every issue, Hi-Fi News delivers uniquely in-depth reviews of high-end audio equipment, including the best in vinyl replay and iconic vintage gear from the early days of audio. It is essential reading for all music enthusiasts.

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Prime cuts • From jazz gems to rocking rarities… Ken Kessler brings you 20 audiophile vinyl releases whose musical merit is more than a match for the meticulous mastering they’ve enjoyed

The Reader Pledge • Hi-Fi News’ readers can take full confidence in the fact that every product featured on our front cover, throughout the magazine and on our website has been comprehensively reviewed (auditioned, photographed and lab tested) at our facilities

Franco Serblin Accordo Goldberg • Inspired by the diminutive and still current Accordo, the Goldberg variation features a larger cabinet and bass/mid driver, and integral crossover. Is bigger always better?

Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista DAC • The miniature nuvistor ‘tube’ continues its inexorable march through Musical Fidelity’s latest separates, defining the flagship products in its range. Now it’s the turn of the DAC

Denon DP-3000NE • Having launched its first direct-drive deck over a half century ago, and its last over a decade ago to celebrate 100 years, Denon is back with another, sleeker turntable

Quad Revela 1 • Quad’s first new speakers in some seven years feature an evolved version of the ribbon tweeter seen in its ‘Corner Horn’ of 70 years ago. Now, of course, they come in pairs!

Canor Audio Virtus I2 • This Slovakian design and production facility takes pride in its tube selection, in-house PCB ‘milling’ and other innovations. Here’s the new flagship ‘Premium Line’ integrated

Audiolab 9000N • The third and final component in Audiolab’s three-strong 9000 series has landed – an app-driven network DAC with balanced outs. But what, if any, is the Lumin connection?

Sonus faber Lumina V Amator • There’s more to this slender, stylish Italian floorstander than striking wood veneers as trickledown hits the target

English Electric EE1 • Audiophiles are assaulted by a fog of noise, and not just from the Internet. Chord aims to remove the hash from our wired Ethernet.

Carlo Gesualdo Prince Of Darkness • It’s both impossible and essential to put the composer’s life-story to one side when listening to this music of love and loss, and life and death, says Peter Quantrill

Fatboy Slim …A Long Way, Baby • Blending genres and fusing samples, this 1998 album – now remastered on 180g – cemented Norman Cook’s status as the king of Big Beat, says Steve Sutherland

Joan Baez Vol. 1 • The teenage singer with the vibrato soprano shunned the commercial trappings of a major label deal to record this stripped-back collection of traditional folk songs, launching a career that would later see her performing at the White House…

Roundhead Studios • This facility in Auckland is one of the crown jewels of the Kiwi music scene, shaping the sounds of legends while elevating the art of acoustic design. Steve Sutherland explains

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Secrets and spies • Barry Fox recounts the strange-but-true story of how the BBC and the Post Office deployed 78rpm disc recorders to aid Britain’s war effort – and kept quiet about...