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.

Welcome

WATT’s up! • RE-IMAGINED WATT/PUPPY SPEAKER RETURNS FOR BRAND’S HALF CENTURY

Lumin goes Mini • COMPACT SIBLING TO P1 DAC/STREAMER

HI-FI NEWS’ NUGGETS

Matrix reloaded • FLAGSHIP STREAMER, PRE AND POWER AMP

DAC with Dutch courage • MU2 BLENDS CUSTOM CONVERSION WITH ROON AND PREAMP

Double the DC • FERRUM OUTBOARD HYPSOS PSU CAN NOW FEED TWO UNITS

G2.2 for Auralic Altair • TESLA G3 ROLLOUT REACHES NETWORKED DAC/PREAMP

HI-FI NEWS? JUST ASK…

Upcoming Events • INTERNATIONAL DATES FOR YOUR HI-FI DIARY

THE UK hi-fi SHOW Live The Ultimate high-end hi-fi experience Live • First hosted at the prestigious Ascot Grandstand in 2019, the UK’s dedicated high-end audio show returns in 2024 with the ‘who’s who’ of world-class hi-fi

High End-Mässan 2024

Vinyl deluxe • Indulge yourself with linen-wrapped slipcases, in-depth liner notes and heavy art-card covers as Ken Kessler brings you 20 of the best deluxe reissue LPs coming your way…

The hi-fi news & Record Review 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 (including photography and lab testing) at our facility

Garrard 301 Advanced • Launched in 1954, the Garrard 301 ‘transcription motor’ saw seven editions until production ceased in 1964. Sixty years later comes another, in an ‘Advanced’ plinth!

STUART MCNEILIS

301 IN REVIEW

LAB REPORT

Sonus faber Sonetto V G2 • Leveraging tech developed for Sonus faber’s flagship Suprema, its second-gen Sonetto V is all the more fragrant

FLOWER POWER

LAB REPORT

Soulnote S-3 Reference • Still big in Japan, the SACD takes pride of place in Soulnote’s ‘ultimate digital playback system’ that also includes the option of digital filterless conversion and external clocking

SACD LEGACY

LAB REPORT

Marantz Model M1 • With HEOS built-in, and support for numerous streaming services, Marantz’s bijou Model M1 network-attached amplifier pulls off a blend of minimalism with supreme flexibility

GOING PAST STEREO

LAB REPORT

B&W 705 S3 Signature • First debuted in 2017, B&W’s 705 standmount has been through three major iterations with both 2020’s Series 2 and the current Series 3 being offered in ‘Signature’ guise

MIDNIGHT MULTICHANNEL

LAB REPORT

Chord Ultima Integrated • Chord’s first new integrated amplifier in some seven years combines no fewer than four switchmode PSUs and 125W of stereo power into a very stylish Ultima 3 preamp chassis

DIVE INTO THE COOL BLUE

LAB REPORT

Quad Revela 2 • Bigger brother to the standmount two-way Revela 1, the three-way ’2 lifts Quad’s engineering into a floorstander

TWO- OR THREE-WAY?

LAB REPORT

WiiM Pro Plus • This unassuming little black box packs as much streaming technology and features as the biggest players in the audio biz – plus support for Google/Alexa voice control…

WIIM HOME APP

LAB REPORT

Schoenberg String Quartet No 2 • Autobiography, revolution, angst and...