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

Generation W • Enhanced speaker range from Sweden

Take the highway • New high-end DAP

Power play • German analogue headphone amp

Tubular sells • A brace of new phono stages

Go with the flow • New filter to destroy unwanted noise plus new high-grade speaker cable

Boss players • Tons of new releases from busy hi-fi company

New arrival • Debut release from new British company

Moon lust • Flash new in-ears from the US

Kind of blue • High-end moving-coil cartridge

Helping hand • British-built electronics’ support system

Single life • Direct-drive turntable specifically for 7in records

Turn the air blu • Lightweight portable DAC/amp

Making Sense • Two sets of new cans from JBL

Feel the love • Start-up compact loudspeaker

Yesterday once more • Retro ‘phones inspired by the Eighties

Flower power • Korean streamer import

Crown of creation • New in-wall and on-ceiling speakers

Eight expectations • Brand new classy streamer

Little wonder • Nick Tate reckons Acoustic Energy has a winner on its hands with the recently refreshed AE300² standmount speaker

Heaven on earth • A new name to the UK, but if Silent Angel’s SL1 Plus is anything to go by, we’ll be hearing a lot more of it says David Vivian

Move the needle • One of the longest-running ranges of Audio-Technica cartridges has been updated. Ed Selley checks out a selection

Six-packed • Sony has updated its formidable wireless headphones for a sixth generation. Ed Selley sounds them out

Fit and forget • An integrated amp that’s designed to hide away in the ceiling? Ed Selley investigates where the M1 fits into Marantz’s range

A grade above • Cliff Joseph can’t help but be impressed with Cambridge Audio’s updated over-ears – great all-rounders at a competitive price

Plan B • With the affordable integrated amp market ticking over nicely, Ed Selley sees if the B1xi can up the ante even further

Signature dish • Neville Roberts is smitten as he slips on the second headphone offering from Grado’s new Signature line

Bang on! • Mark Craven gets deep down into the groove with this stunning new trickle-down technology subwoofer

Big & bold room-filler • The compact SabrinaX floorstander has been reimagined from top to bottom, resulting in the aspirational Sabrina V

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“The full ‘hair-raising and spine-tingling’ potential of an original music recording” • From recording to retail, Exposure Electronics quickly learned what it is that listeners required

“Affordable should never mean cheap or making compromises”

The reel deal • Buying copy-master tapes is very expensive, so if you’re an analogue enthusiast you will want to choose carefully. Neville Roberts examines the ‘Super Tape’ list

LETTERS • YOUR LETTERS & QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Music reviews

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

English Electric • EE1 Plus Ethernet noise suppressor

Pro-Ject • Flatten It record...