What Hi-Fi?

What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision is the world's leading independent guide to buying and owning hi-fi and home cinema products. Our comprehensive tests help you buy the best equipment for your cash, with the magazine's advice sections giving you step-by-step information on how to get even more from your music and movies.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SPACE

HOW WE TEST

KEF LSX II • A fantastic multi-talented streaming system, perfect for smaller rooms

Hisense 100L9GTUK Laser TV • Can a projector really become a TV?

Technics EAH-A800 • A debut for this veteran brand – made in some style

Sony LinkBuds S • The Sony LinkBuds S might be the world’s smallest wireless earbuds, but size isn’t everything

Arcam AVR5 AV receiver • Arcam’s entry-level AVR prioritises sound over features

Dali Oberon 9 • Big, powerful and a great deal of fun – but they need to be in the right room

BenQ W1800 • Proper home cinema doesn’t have to cost the earth

Samsung QE65S95B • Samsung’s first Quantum Dot OLED TV makes a dazzling debut

Sony XR-48A90K • It’s not cheap, but this is an astonishingly good ‘small’ OLED TV

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INSIDE TIMBERWORX, THE SPEAKER-BUILDING COMPANY YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF • Meet the company that makes cabinets for some of your favourite speaker brands

TOP FIVE LAUNCHES • Five products to look out for this month

KIT FOR TIGHT SPACES Little boxes, big presence • If you want great sound quality but haven’t much room for the kit that provides it, don’t worry. Just unwrap our gift selection of talented small speakers

Wharfedale Diamond 12.1 • PASSIVE SPEAKERS

Neat Iota

Dali Menuet SE • PASSIVE SPEAKERS

Spendor Classic 4/5

Ruark Audio MR1 Mk2 • POWERED SPEAKERS

Q Acoustics M20

Eclipse TD307 Mk3 • PASSIVE DESKTOP SPEAKERS

Neat Iota Alpha • SMALL FLOORSTANDERS

THE MAKING OF THE KEF LS60 WIRELESS • This is a stereo speaker like no other – one that could revolutionise hi-fi. KEF’s Jack Oclee-Brown reveals its secrets, joins the ‘passive vs active’ debate and shares his hopes for the future of music-listening

KIT FOR TIGHT SPACES Small wonders • The best all-in-one music systems, whose compact size and convenient features make them ideal for the smaller living space

Naim Mu-so 2 • ALL-IN-ONE MUSIC SYSTEM

JBL L75ms • ALL-IN-ONE MUSIC SYSTEM

Sonus Faber Omnia • ALL-IN-ONE MUSIC SYSTEM

Devialet Phantom 1 108dB • ALL-IN-ONE MUSIC SYSTEM

Linn Series 3 Wireless • ALL-IN-ONE MUSIC SYSTEM

THAT WAS THEN… NAGRA PL-P REVIEW Nagra’s first hi-fi product set sky-high standards • We look back to 1998 and the arrival of the Swiss company’s valve-based preamplifier, still comparable to today’s best products

Level up your speaker cables • Stepping up from budget wires can really lift the quality of your sound. Here’s our pick of cables from £10-£15/m

QED Reference XT40i

AudioQuest Rocket 11

Chord ClearwayX

Audio Analogue AAdac • EXPENSIVE, YES. BUT YOU KNOW YOU WANT THEM

Magico A1 • EXPENSIVE, YES. BUT YOU KNOW YOU WANT THEM

BUYER’S GUIDE • The definitive guide to the best home-entertainment kit you can buy

HI-FI AMPLIFIERS • THE BEATING HEART OF YOUR HI-FI SYSTEM

Preamplifiers and power amps

CD PLAYERS & TRANSPORTS • GET THE RIGHT PLAYER AND CD CAN STILL SHINE

DACs • A DIGITAL-TO-ANALOGUE CONVERTER IS A MODERN HI-FI MUST

MUSIC STREAMERS • THE BEST WAY TO SHARE YOUR TUNES...