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

Well connected

Get to the point

Moveable feasts

The harder they come...

Teenage kicks

Look to the future

Volt from the blues

WIN Mitchell Acoustics uStream Go speakers!

Norse mode

Party on...

Power to the people!

More than trad, Dad

Three and easy

Evolutionary

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

Vinyl countdown • Neville Roberts takes six high-quality cartridges that will work with moving-magnet phono stages for a spin

Goldring Eroica HX £600 • Intended to make the upgrade from MM to MC easy, enter the only moving-coil offering in the group

Grado Timbre Sonata3 £630 • Next up, a rather attractive wooden-bodied moving-iron offering from the Untied States

MoFi Electronics MasterTracker £800 • The group’s first moving-magnet offering is another US export with a connection to the record-making business

Nagaoka JT-80BK £550 • Our first offering from Japan, this all-black movingmagnet sits at the top of Nagaoka’s JT range

Sumiko Amethyst £630 • Our second Japanese offering is named after the violet variety of quartz and is also an all-black moving magnet

Vertere Sabre £900 • Introducing the premium moving-magnet cartridge offered by Touraj Moghaddam’s company

Group test verdict • Having had a wonderful time taking all six cartridges for a spin, a conflicted Neville Roberts sums up his experience as he struggles to find a winner

Power and the glory! • Dubbed The Conductor and The Orchestra, Hegel’s upgraded pre/power amplifiers are superb flagships worthy of their names

Pound stretcher • Cambridge Audio’s latest streamer is a comprehensively specified budget effort and EdSelley thinks it’s rather good

A bird in the hand... • This affordable wired headphone aimed primarily at classical music buffs is one to tweet about reckons Cliff Joseph

King of convenience • Looking to make your life easier when it comes to your vinyl replay? Ed Selley thinks Dual might have the answer

Blue Riband • The flagship true wireless in-ear from B&W gets a refresh and EdSelley thinks the results are impressive

DAC’s the way to do it! • FiiO’s ambitious new DAC/amp sets its sights on your home entertainment system. Cliff Josephgets converted

Simply Red • This floorstander is compact and bijou, but at what cost? David Vivian reckons this could be the zero-compromise option

First direct • Nick Tate test drives a purist stereo preamplifier with a difference and can’t help but be supremely impressed

Stand and deliver! • Nick Tateauditions Perlisten’s punchy-sounding R5m loudspeaker – one of the biggest standmounts going

Hi-Fi Choices

Floorstanders • Don’t know your infinite baffle from your transmission line? Bewildered by the difference between two, three and 2.5-way designs? Worry not, help is at hand

Music while you work • Does it help to listen to music while you are concentrating on other things, such as writing? Neville Roberts finds that there is no clear-cut answer

Nurse, the screens! • Nigel Williamson decides to give his brain and eyeballs a rest by logging off and returning to an analogue lifestyle. What could possibly go wrong?

Not fade away • Who’d have known...