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

Prestigious • New integrated amp and CD player from Japan

The joy of valves • The hi-fi system you “wear on your head”

Disc dancer • CD addition to Quad’s Platina line

Easy listening • Affordable setup from Majority

Gearing up! • An avalanche of new kit coming from Philips

Space in-Vader • Double additions to desktop range

Classical music • US headphone lineup regroups

Tape away • Stylish new portable cassette player from Thailand

Make a statement • Greek monster DAC import

Cleaning up • Smallest addition to vinyl care import line

The X factor • Updated network switch

Amazing revelations! • Brand new speaker line

Route 66 • New Nordic floorstanders

Read all about it! • Affordable new wired headphones

Peaks of perfection • Very expensive, very limited centenary anniversary speakers

Tasty morsel • Smallest yet of LEAK’s Sandwich speaker reinvention

Come fly with me • New Brit floorstander

Part of the furniture • Blend-in home speaker range

MSX masters • UK company gives speakers a re-Minx

Active duty • ATC’s smallest active speaker could well stop the need to upgrade dead in its tracks, as David Vivian discovers

Play time! • Sonos gets back on track with this impressive new portable speaker. Cliff Joseph takes it outside to party

A grand day out • The foundation of Pro-Ject’s vinyl-spinning dynasty, the Debut line of turntables has just been extended with a new flagship

Smooth operator • Nick Tate auditions the latest in an impressively long line of affordable Audio-Technica moving-coil cartridges

Ready, steady GO • Cliff Joseph lauds iFi audio’s updated tiny portable digital-to-analogue converter, which punches well above its weight

New order • It’s all change at the affordable end of DALI’s loudspeaker portfolio as SONIK replaces OBERON. David Vivian checks out the 3

A kind of magic • Rega’s latest phono stage makes some of the tech from its flagship sibling available at a lower price point. Ed Selley listens in

Bang on! • Cliff Joseph reckons third time is the charm for Apple’s newly updated over-ear headphones

Rise up! • OePhi’s original entry-level standmount may have been usurped by the newer Lounge 2, but David Vivian reckons it’s still a class act

Flux HiFi • Flux-Turbo 2.0 electronic vinyl turbine record cleaner

Gekko Cables • Magic Bow static remover

Class act • Trickled down from TAD’s existing Class D power amplifiers and partnering preamp, the A1000 is the first integrated model designed to complement its storied Evolution series

Crystal clear • Nick Tate remembers Sony’s first ever quartz-locked, direct-drive turntable motor unit, the classic 1976 TTS-8000

Music on repeat • It’s funny how we can happily while away the time listening to the same bit of music over and over again, and yet only watch a movie once. Neville Roberts seeks answers

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Musicreviews

Qobuz playlist JUNE • This month’s pick of the best happening tunes to stream in hi-res from Qobuz

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