Hi Fi News

Since its launch in June 1956 - two years before the commercial realisation of stereo - Hi-Fi News & Record Review has been delivering insightful reviews of the key products and technologies that lie behind our shared hobby... the passion of listening to music on the very best equipment available to the enthusiast. Every issue, Hi-Fi News delivers uniquely in-depth reviews of high-end audio equipment, including the best in vinyl replay and iconic vintage gear from the early days of audio. It is essential reading for all music enthusiasts.

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Mytek reads the Roon • VERSATILE NETWORK DAC AIMS TO SIMPLIFY STREAMING

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Upper cuts • Bonus material, multiple formats, plush packaging… Ken Kessler sorts through the latest archival releases to bring you the best deluxe reissues from music’s most famous names

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Halcro Eclipse Stereo • The original Halcro amp starred in a recent HFN Vault feature but, some 20 years on, the marque is back in the same iconic shape and with the same high tech claims…

Klipsch Klipschorn AK6 • From crude prototype in 1938 to its initial production run in 1947, the Klipschorn was founder Paul W Klipsch’s ‘cornerstone’ horn loudspeaker. How does it fare today?

PrimaLuna EVO 100 Tube Ph. • Dutch tube aficionado, PrimaLuna, has offered an optional solid-state phono module with its amps for years, but now comes its first standalone, all-tube MM/MC preamp

Denon DCD/PMA-1700NE • Denon has been in existence for 111 years, resolutely supporting CD playback for the last 40. Its latest CD disc spinner handles SACD too, and joins the 1700 series amplifier

Totem Acoustic Bison Monitor • While not exactly an apex bovine of the wide-open prairies, the diminutive ‘monitor’ of Totem’s new Bison series can still stampede with the best of the musical herd

Audio-Technica AT-ART20 • Sixty years since Hideo Matsushita founded Audio-Technica in a Tokyo suburb the brand continues its love affair with vinyl with the launch of a new ART series moving-coil

SPL Diamond • From Germany’s SPL (Sound Performance Laboratory) comes this multicolour USB DAC designed for both ‘legacy’ and computer connection. There’s a volume control too…

B&W 803 D4 • This downsized, but perfectly-proportioned, facsimile of B&W’s 801 D4 flagship is smaller in all but sound…

Duruflé Requiem • Fauré Mark 2? Absolutely not, says Peter Quantrill, as he unravels the mysteries and contradictions surrounding this devotional work, and surveys its history on record

Small Faces Small Faces • Under new management, the mod quartet got creative on an album of three-minute pop gems, but struggled when it came to the title. Steve Sutherland listens…

The Bunnymen Ocean Rain • The Liverpudlian post-punk quartet, led by enigmatic front man Ian McCulloch,...