Hi-Fi Choice

Hi-Fi Choice is the essential guide to audio excellence in the home. It is a no-nonsense guide to the finest products available, from vinyl and valves, to multi-channel digital audio and high-fidelity video. Hi-Fi Choice sorts the best from the rest with rigorous test processes and a highly experienced team of reviewers.

Welcome

Hit for six! • Cyrus unveils raft of new XR series products

Fyne’s ‘Special’ one • Stunning new floorstander follows in the footsteps of the F502SP

Russ Andrews cleans up

Mini maestros • Ophidian’s compact M-Series is back for more

Feet of engineering

French connection • Focal introduces new floorstander

Bolt out of the blue

Eltax goes retro • New three-way floorstander from Denmark

Are you experienced? • Bang & Olufsen, Lowther and Leak come together to recreate Jimi Hendrix’s hi-fisetup

Changing rooms • Introducing Elipson’s Connect 250 wireless streaming amp

Cambridge goes truly wireless

Keeping it simple

STEP BACK IN TIME

Unique group tests • Our Group Tests are supported by rigorous and exhaustive listening tests carried out by experts

Demand better • Streaming is now an integral part of how we access music, but who is the current pick of the pack? Ed Selley gets online to find out

Amazon Music HD from £13/month • Amazon’s lossless service falls just short of greatness by some irritatingly small margins

SPEAK UP

Deezer HiFi£15/month • Deezer strikes a happy balance between convenience and quality for good results across the board

SURROUND SOUND

High Res Audio Streaming £90/six months • High Res Audio maintains its quality-orientated approach, making it a specialist but capable option

THE REAL DEAL

Primephonic Platinum £15/month • This classical service has many likeable features, but also some annoying operational shortcomings

LEARNING CURVE

Qobuz Studio Premier £15/month • Some detail tweaks and a useful price cut means that this is still the class act of the streaming service field

SUPER STORE

Tidal HiFi£20/month • A long-standing champion of lossless streaming, Tidal has been refining some details to good effect

NEW HEIGHTS

Group test verdict • Six talented means of music delivery, but there can only be one winner. Ed Selley explains which one takes the spoils and why

Mas-sive attack • AVID’s philosophy of high mass platter, suspended sub-chassis and torquey motor continues, and HFC is mightily impressed

Fyne tuned • David Vivian wonders if a hot-rodded version of Fyne Audio’s original floorstander has the required sonic change of gear

Force field • It might seem madness to have a mains cable that’s powered by another mains cable, but it works. Ed Selley reveals all

True blue • Offering the performance bump of the Momentum 2 minus some of the features, Cliff Joseph finds out how this in-ear fares

Z-stars • Replacing the Hyper, Neville Roberts finds out how this bi-wire speaker cable with new Achromatic Z plugs compares

3030 vision • Q Acoustics adds a larger standmount to its successful 3000i lineup but, as David Vivian discovers, size isn’t everything

Missed an issue?

Harnessing the Atom • A big speaker needs a commensurately big amp to properly run it, right? Not necessarily says Ed Selley

Direct action • In late-Seventies Japan, Denon turntables had a great reputation in pro audio circles. The DP-55K shows why, explains David Price

BUYING ADVICE

MUSIC MAKER • From Meridian to MQA, David Price looks at the illustrious career of Bob Stuart

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