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

ALL SYSTEMS GO! • New affordable all-in-one ready for action from UK specialist

Om sweet Om • New affordable music system from Audiolab

Hearing colour • Glamorous new in-ears to suit your inner fashionista

Good buddies • Denon enters the true wireless in-ear market

V for victory • New upgrade to apartment-friendly compact subwoofer

P for precision • Player/preamp now accessible to the UK

Hyper-active • New power distribution block and balanced digital audio cable from Kilmarnock

Power ranger • New cable from Wiltshire company

Filter the noise • Brand new MiniZap from Russ Andrews

Dynamic duo • New high-end two-chassis preamp from NYC

Rich pickings • Trickle down upgrades for Arizonian high-class amps

Sound around • New soundbar import offers Dolby Atmos music experience

Bristol show no go

Back tracking to the future • Malaysian-owned, Brit-based company returns to its roots with a full-width integrated inspired by the improved circuit design of its recent 5010 monoblock power amps

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

INTERCONNECT CABLES £45-£120 Well connected • This month, we focus on analogue interconnects that will connect up your audio system without breaking the bank. Neville Roberts gets plugged into the task

Atlas Cables Element Achromat £86 • The Scottish-based specialist’s entry-level offering aims to be achromatic in every sense

Black Rhodium Intro £45 • This new range from Black Rhodium’s sister company offers a cost-effective introduction to the brand

Chord Company Clearway £100 • Featuring silver-plated RCA plugs, Chord Co.’s Clearway certainly looks set to impress

Ecosse The Conductor CA1 £75 • A Scottish gem of an interconnect from Kilmarnock aiming to set the gold standard

QED Performance Audio 40i £55 • Introducing the upgraded version of QED’s original Performance Audio 40 RCA interconnect

True Colours Industries Fierce £120 • Resplendent in shocking pink, the Fierce shines brightly at the top of TCI’s range of interconnects

Group test verdict • Having plugged in all six contenders, Neville Roberts sums up his experience and, with great difficulty, comes up with a winner

Magnetic attraction • Already boasting a range of affordable turntables and a trio of MM pick-ups, a premium MoFi MC has finally arrived

Raising the flag • Nick Tate auditions the smallest floorstander in the company’s illustrious new flagship range and is suitably impressed

Class of 77 • The tiniest member of the Classic range from JBL keeps the period features, but in miniature. Ed Selley listens in

Go your own way • Copland’s most affordable integrated takes a different design route to its stablemates, but Ed Selley thinks the result is still a classic

X appeal • X man Cliff Joseph gets to grips with Audio-Technica’s second-generation Bluetooth headphone

American Pi • If ever there was a case of not judging a hi-fi component by its cover, David Vivian reckons the PecanPi Streamer is it

Data analyst • Tape head David Price pays homage to one of the best cassette decks that wasn’t produced by Nakamichi

In Pod we trust • Cliff Joseph has a close...