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

Mission accomplished • Remodelled compact speaker comes to market

Party hard! • New portable Bluetooth speaker from Sony

Spin doctors • Two new turntables and a high-end cartridge from AT

Get the balance right • New affordable turntable from Pro-Ject

Licence to illumin • New music player with innovative processing system

Wired for hound • Limited edition anniversary turntable from HMV

Spool’s out! • Fabulous new reel-to-reels at a formidable price

Your Lux in! • A trio of new launches from Japan

Raising the bar • Two new soundbars from the US

Knock on wood • A pair of ‘phones from the US

Synching feeling • New speaker range from Canada

Getting better all the time • Radical improvements to popular record player

Green machine • New environment-conscious portable speaker

Loud and clear • New turntable upgrade from Germany

Brighten up! • Revolutionary new earphones charged by light

Tour de force • New speakers and ‘phones from JBL

Get your motor running • Strip out the digital inputs, BluOS streaming module and preamp stage from NAD’s M33 and you get the M23 and a new ‘purist’ implementation of Purifi’s ground-breaking Eigentakt Class D tech

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

Miniature marvels • Do you want to turn a phone or laptop into a cost-effective digital front end? Ed Selley looks at six pint-sized DACs promising to do just that

AudioQuest • The premium member of AudioQuest’s compact DAC family, the Cobalt uses its simplicity as a virtue

Cayin • The technically intriguing RU6 balances its clever design with some useful real-world features

EarMen • The Eagle offers impressive performance, but there are some caveats in how you can make use of it

iFi Audio • The GO bar is the ultimate – if slightly inscrutable – expression of the compact, single-input DAC

NuPrime • A comprehensive spec and some interesting additional features means the NuPrime more than holds its own

Pro-Ject • Making simplicity an art form, the Pro-Ject has to be seen as a bit of a bargain for the asking price

Group test verdict • Six tiny, terrific DACs offering such different listening options, but there can be only one possible winner. Ed Selley makes the call

Lord of the rings • Featuring a concentric mid/treble driver with a difference, ELAC’s Concentro range goes ‘compact’ with the S 503

Divine intervention • Affordable streamers are not common and those with their own platform are rarer still. Ed Selley checks out the Bremen B1

Finding your Voice • Long admired for its classy electronics, David Vivian wonders if Moon can deliver the same quality with its first ever speaker

To wire or not to wire... • Cliff Joseph gets to grips with these versatile earbuds that work in both wired and wireless modes

Off the wall • Wall-mounted speakers tend to be underappreciated, but David Vivian reckons this offering deserves your undivided attention

Power with panache • Nick Tate can’t help but be charmed by this smooth-sounding Gallic pre/power amplifier combination

Prime time • Don’t be fooled by the small size and plain design, Primare’s new streaming bridge is a thing of sonic beauty says...