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

Three cheers! • Two new amps and a CD player from Denon

Nu kit on the block

On the right path

DAC’s the way to do it!

Mat’s life

Set the tone

Wireless wonder

The big Mach

Going for Gold

Just like Eddie

Clean your acts up

Cancel culture

Heavy metal thunder

Adjusting the focus

Disc diva

Tri and tri again

Ready steady GO

The UK Hi-Fi Show Live • Last hosted at the stately Ascot Grandstand in 2019, the UK’s dedicated high-end audio show returns with the ‘who’s who’ of world-class hi-fi

Here’s looking at you, punk! • Steampunk styling meets luxury audio as the master of touchscreen streaming launches one of the most eccentric-looking, tactile and flexible all-analogue integrated amplifiers HFC has ever seen

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

Take the floor • Looking for speakers that don’t just do bass but continue to sound better as your system improves? David Vivian doesn’t have the answer, he has six of them

Acoustic Energy AE1092 £600 • As svelte, stylish and unassuming as its predecessor, here’s a sequel with the talent to be a class leader

Fyne Audio F302i £650 • Fyne has form when it comes to sparing a little sonic magic for its more affordable floorstanders

JBL Stage A190 £650 • By a gulf the largest speaker here, but the question is: can the functional JBL deliver the musical message?

Klipsch R-600F £950 • Klipsch continues to roll out new models, but the distinctive house aesthetic has a new flavour

Monitor Audio Bronze 200 £550 • MA’s Bronze age has extended over six successful generations, but is the winning formula still in play?

Wharfedale Diamond 12.3 £500 • One of the longest-running speaker dynasties, the Diamond continues to evolve. Is this the best yet?

Group test verdict • After a week auditioning these over-achievers, it’s time for David Vivian to draw the curtains, pour a drink and finally reveal which one takes top spot

A vinyl-lover’s perfect dream • This icon of British hi-fi celebrates its own diamond jubilee with a new super-expensive flagship turntable, which means – amazingly – that the very best just got even better

Signature dish • The ever-expanding ZEN range gains another member and Ed Selley thinks this one might be one of the best yet

Ton up! • A&K enters the Bluetooth market for the first time, with this affordable earbud offering. Cliff Joseph gives it a workout

About time • It’s taken Eclipse seven years to update its TD307 desktop speakers, but David Vivian believes it’s been worth the wait

Oval and out • New top-of-the-range wireless earbuds might be a bit on the big side, but they sound brilliant says Cliff Joseph

Higher Concept • The Concept 50 puts the basics of the outstanding Concept 30 into a floorstander. Ed Selley finds out if it is as talented

Wide load • The flagship of NAD’s classic range borrows from the Masters Series and Ed Selley thinks the results are seriously impressive

One for all • Nick Tate remembers the striking-sounding Nineties Marantz CD-72 Bitstream silver disc spinner

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