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

Bridging the gap • New separates and integrated system from Germany

Turning the tables • A brace of new turntables from Germany

Best end musical • Brand new desktop integrated from Chord Electronics

Go with the flow • New just-add-speakers streaming amp from Canada

Opposites attract • A brace of new mono amps to power your system

Q4 launch frenzy! • Loads of new kit from Technics

Grellbound • New audiophile in-ears at affordable price

Swede dreams • Stylish update of portable Bluetooth speaker

Let’s get conceptual • New range of affordable speakers from Q Acoustics

Hip Hooray! • iFi’s hip-dac gets an update and a brand new orange coat

Operatic! • Ortofon adds to its Exclusive Series with the MC Verismo

A technical tour de force • Built as a ‘box within a box’, and promising a slicker all-round performance than ever, Auralic’s G2.1 series now extends to the fully-fledged Altair streaming DAC/preamplifier

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

Dynamic digital • Having come back from the brink of extinction, the digital-to-analogue converter is now undergoing another evolutionary phase. Ed Selley works out what you need

DacMagic 200M £400 • The DacMagic is a tried-and-tested formula from Cambridge Audio and an effective one it is too

Neo iDSD £800 • This well-specified DAC charms with its capable sonic performance across a selection of in and outputs

Mini-i Pro 3 £900 • Arguments as to whether this is best described as a DAC or streamer are secondary to its performance

MX-DAC £549 • The specification might be less than lavish, but this DAC still offers an impressive audio performance

N15D £600 • Another extremely flexible product, but the ability to do everything can result in some compromises

Pre Box S2 Digital £350 • This diminutive box of tricks holds its own in terms of spec and, no less importantly, performance too

Group test verdict • Six very different but extremely capable devices, but there can only be one winner. Ed Selley makes the difficult call

801 carat sounds • A new 800 series, and a return to the original 801 name, but the 801 D4’s enhancements are more than skin deep

INSIDE the music • Dolby Atmos Music is billed by its creators as an entirely new and more immersive way to enjoy music, but what exactly is it? Daniel Sait investigates

Join the Q • This bookshelf speaker provides attractive sound and connectivity at a competitive price. Cliff Joseph just wishes it had wi-fi

Sound of silence • This all-valve phono stage is a fastidiously engineered piece of kit. Ed Selley sees if it lives up to the gold standard

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Triple threat • This new flagship breaks some new ground for Etymotic and Ed Selley reckons it does so in some considerable style

Still game • Elipson updates its long-running all-in-one with its Connect streaming interface and Ed Selley is impressed at the results

Walk the line • Neville Roberts remembers the first time he heard a transmission line speaker as he is dazzled by Falcon’s latest addition

In the groove • Tom Evans has updated what he describes as his best-value phono preamp...