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
B&W 700 Signature • B&W’S 705 AND 702 ARE GIVEN ‘SIGNATURE STATUS
Audia takes flight • NEW FLS 9 INTEGRATED AMP FROM ITALY
Auralic evolves • NEXT GEN G2 AND GX STREAMING SOLUTIONS
Bricasti’s ladder • M20 PREAMP WITH DISCRETE RESISTER LADDER VOLUME
Every which way… • ELAC’S CONCENTRO S 509 IS A TWO-WAY, FOUR-WAY…
Franco floorstander • ICONIC LUTE-INSPIRED SERBLIN ACCORDO ESSENCE LAUNCHED
HI-FI NEWS? JUST ASK…
Hi-Fi @ Home revisited • Steve Harris talks to a reader whose system we featured back in 2010. Before we find out what changes he’s made, here’s how things were…
HI-FI@ HOME – CATCHING UP TEN YEARS LATER…
The new gig economy • As more groups turn to touring to generate revenue, Johnny Black casts an eye over the more innovative ways some bands are winning over fans
POP IN THE PARLOUR
LOCATION, LOCATION….
Goldmund Mimesis 15/Prana • There certainly aren’t many speakers that look like them, but these baby models – yes, really – in the Swiss brand’s wireless active range combine style with all-alloy substance
HIGH-END WIRELESS
VÉRONIQUE ADAM
Yamaha C-5000/M-5000 • Masters of retro chic, Yamaha has evolved its one-time flagship A-S3000 integrated amplifier into a fully-fledged pre/power. And there’s not a digital input in sight…
A HI-FI HISTORY
SIMON FEBEN-HARKNETT
LAB REPORT
Holbo Airbearing • An air-bearing turntable and a parallel-tracking, air-bearing tonearm in a single, easy-to-use package for under £7000? Devotees of both will love the Holbo Airbearing
PUMP IT UP
LAB REPORT
NAD M33 • Ever at the cutting edge of both analogue and digital Class D amplification, NAD’s new M33 is the first to utilise Purifi’s groundbreaking modules. All this and streaming too…
ULTIMATE CLASS D?
LAB REPORT
System Audio Legend 40 • This Danish brand, new to the UK, has made a name for itself on the Continent with its passive-to-active speakers
GOING ACTIVE
LAB REPORT
Copland CSA100 • In what is looking like it might be a trend – tube hybrid integrated amplifiers – Copland joins in with a Danish beauty at a sensible price, the all-singing, all-dancing CSA100
A QUESTION OF PHASE
LAB REPORT
T+A HA 200 • Close on the heels of T+A’s flagship Solitaire P headphone comes this appropriately luxurious partner combining familiar digital tech with a Class A headphone amplifier
CUSTOM DRIVE
LAB REPORT
Monitor Audio Bronze 100 • A foundation range for two decades, MA’s Bronze series goes for gold with the standmount 100
CUSTOM DRIVERS
LAB REPORT
Mozart The Last Three Symphonies • Were these meant to be heard as a single entity? Does the theory survive scrutiny? Christopher Breunig suggests library versions both ‘historically aware’ and traditional
The Rolling Stones It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll • Their 1974 riposte to criticism, which Steve Sutherland finds a mixture of downright goodies with a sprinkling of duds is remastered on 180g vinyl from pure analogue
Stevie Wonder Innervisions • Released in 1973, the singer’s 16th album marked his...