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.

SEP/25

Come together • B&W CELEBRATES ITS ABBEY ROAD HISTORY WITH LIMITED 801 D4 SIGNATURE

Estelon’s A game • NEW STANDMOUNT READY FOR ANY ROOM

HI-FI NEWS' NUGGETS

Box clever • PRO-JECT MEETS WIIM IN STREAMING AMP

Sonic sorcery for vinyl • GRIMM AUDIO DEBUTS ‘MINIMALIST TOPOLOGY’ PHONO AMP

London Decca returns • CARTRIDGE BRAND RELAUNCHES, SAYS PHONO AMP TO COME

Silent slimline streamer • APP-DRIVEN MUSIC PLAYER/DAC OFFERS SSD UPGRADE PATH

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THE Ukhi-fi SHOW The ultimate high-end hi-fi experience Live • First hosted at the prestigious Ascot Grandstand in 2019, the UK’s dedicated high-end audio show returns in 2025 with the ‘who’s who’ of world-class hi-fi

Rule Britannia • One part musical genre, one part media-fuelled cultural phenomenon, Britpop was the UK’s vibrant answer to America’s grunge. Johnny Sharp spotlights 20 of its best albums

The hi-fi news & Record Review Reader Pledge • Hi-Fi News’ readers can take full confidence in the fact that every product featured on our front cover, across the magazine and on our website has been comprehensively examined (inc. photography), lab tested and auditioned at our purpose-built facility

CH Precision L1/M1.1 • From the pen of the designer behind the turn-of-the-millennium Anagram upsampler tech comes not one but two complete series of high-end digital/analogue components

dCS Lina DAC X • First came the three-box Lina headphone amp/DAC, followed by the Lina and Lina 2.0 DACs, the latter tickled-up again with the addition of volume and a full-width chassis

Quad 3 • ‘Embracing the future/celebrating the past’, says Quad as it launches its first integrated, styled after the 22 control unit from 1959 and equipped with digital tech from today

Soulines tt9/KiVi M3 • Serbian brand Soulines brings its holistic design philosophy to bear on a new deck and captive unipivot arm that claims ‘affordable high-end’ performance. It’s no idle boast…

Børresen C1 • The C series is one of four speaker ranges from Audio Group Denmark’s Børresen Acoustics. We start with the standmount

Aqua La Scala MkIII • Off-the-shelf chipsets are firmly off the menu for Italy’s Aqua as the brand evolves its unique take on the NOS ‘ladder DAC’ concept… now with a FET/tube output stage

Wilson Audio Submerge • The Utah-based brand digs deep to take on the challenge of palpable infra-bass with its largest active subwoofer to date. We close all the hatches and dive, dive, dive…

Dynaudio Confidence 20A • High-end performance meets ease of use? This new active sibling of the Confidence 20 standmount leverages DSP and amplification from Dynaudio’s pro studio loudspeakers

SAVE THE DATE: SEPT 27-28th 2025

Elgar Symphony No.2 • Elgar poured heart and soul into the Second, says Peter Quantrill, plus the technique to produce a creative summation that brings out the best in its interpreters on record

Judas Priest Rocka Rolla • This promising 1974 debut LP for five working-class Birmingham lads laid the groundwork for how they became perennial metal gods still going strong...