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.

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Welcome

If the kit is Unitra… • New distribution deal for gear from Poland

Triple threat • New British integrated amp

Flying high • Multi-purpose music player

Boxing clever • Brand new integrated amp

Hear and now • “Best-in-class” battery for new buds

On the move • Sleek portable digital audio player

Ample amps • A brace of new products from Chord

The big ‘O’ • Affordable turntable from guitar amp champ

Bar room blitz • UK Bluetooth soundbar

Take the floor • Range-completing speaker unveiled

Over the moon • Japanese-crafted IEMs

Sweet spot • Analogue interconnect named after classic US snack

Home grown • New buds and streaming amp from UK

Top performer • Affordable DAC, preamp and headphone amp combo

Why we don’t we do it in the road? • Limited-edition, very expensive collectors-item speaker

Max headroom • New flagship IEMs incoming

Good vibrations • Isolation system imported from Germany

Party time • A trio of sing-along speakers

Space is the place • Made-to-order aluminium experimental speaker

Power up! • German company cleans up its sound

Training companion • Lightweight earbuds from China

V for victory • High-end floorstander

The UK Hi-Fi Show Live • The UK’s preeminent hi-fi show is back for more…

Seven up! • Another five years, another factory-fresh Bronze lineup. David Vivian takes the floorstanding flagship for a drive

Middle class • Mark Craven lends an ear to Q Acoustics’ latest affordable bass box and finds there’s plenty to like about it

Life begins at 40… • Cyrus has built some of the best phono stages going in the last few years. Ed Selley sees if the 40 PPA can raise the game

Power to the people! • A compact power amp to complement CA’s small devices, but Ed Selley thinks it’s so much more than that

Simply read • Mark Craven gets to grips with the darker version of this new, wallet-friendly tube integrated amp

Keep on running • Revival Audio’s Sprint 4 floorstander doesn’t look like a game changer, but the proof is in the listening as David Vivian finds out

Generation game • The original DMP-A6 marked the beginning of Eversolo’s hi-fi ambitions. Now Ed Selley is seeing what the new version can do

Tipping the scales • Fifteen years after the French boutique brand stunned the hi-fi world with its unique ‘Analogue/Digital Hybrid’ D-Premier amplifier, the technology gets a reboot… and an app to go with it!

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“Believe your own ears” • From making guitar amps in his teenage bedroom to global hi-fi excellence, meet Bent Holter of Hegel

“Nothing added, nothing taken away” • Bent Holt, CEO Hegel Music Systems

Vinyl liquidation • Neville Roberts looks into vinyl records that actually contain liquid and, in one case, the stuff you should drink while listening to the music on the record!

Missed an issue? • Have you missed a copy of your favourite hi-fi magazine? You can now order Hi-Fi Choice back issues online

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