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

Seven up! • Speaker import from France

Busy drivers • Brand new flagship in-ears

Joy ride! • Pioneering flagship portable DAC/amp

M people • Classy French headphones

Go flat out • New automatic turntable and warped vinyl fixer

Watts up doc? • Brand new amp from Switzerland

This year’s new models • A brace of new UK turntables

Let’s see action! • Compact UK two-way standmount

Outdoor pursuits • Heavy duty UK portable radio

Clean up • Handy stylus cleaning kit

Come out swinging • Flash new US integrated amp

A light in the darkness • Chinese cans keep you safe while running at night

Nice price • Affordable open-back headphones

Tough to beat • Upgraded UK MM phono stage

In their element • Extensions to UK speaker range

Art of noise • Limited edition, extremely arty speaker from Denmark

X factor • Comfy cans from the US

Five alive • Integrated amp from Japan

Perma perfection • Flagship cartridge from Japan

Summer lovin’ • Portable speaker from Brit start-up

Comfort and joy • New lightweight open-backs designed for comfort

Viva la Evolution! • Revolutionary new subs from America

Super-sized big brother • SVS hit the ground running with its Ultra Evolution Nano. David Vivian wonders if the bigger Bookshelf can find another gear

Open all hours • Neville Roberts lends his ears to AT’s competitively priced cans, part of its recent range of professional open-backs

Smart Es • The system-in-a-box concept clearly has legs. Ed Selley gets colourful with the latest offering from Pro-Ject

The second coming • One of the most successful affordable integrateds of recent years gets a makeover. Ed Selley sees if it still rules the roost

Back to the future • Turning back the time machine, Nick Tate channels the spirit of the Eighties with Rotel’s new Michi CD transport

Go with the pro • Chord Electronics’ professional amp is now available for the rest of us to enjoy. Cliff Joseph gives it a whirl

Flower power • Nick Tate finds not a single thorn in the side of HiFi Rose’s new RD160 digital-to-analogue converter

Flipping heck! • Its rugged and portable design make JBL’s updated Flip a great choice for outdoor music. Cliff Joseph takes it to the party

Come fly with me • Nick Tate auditions Dan Clark Audio’s flagship CORINA electrostatic headphones and realises it’s time to save his pennies…

Master and commander • Another day, another Master & Dynamic update to its affordable in-ears. Cliff Joseph pops ‘em in and tries ‘em out

Take it to the limit • Perlisten’s flagship gets the ‘LE’ treatment with lashings of carbon-fibre, plus updated crossover and bass drivers

“More than a century of accuracy in sound” • From movies to music, Danish company Ortofon’s journey to the top has always been about high-fidelity sound

“Outstanding sound without exception” • Henrik Alifas Nielsen, CEO of Ortofon

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

Seal to preserve • Neville Roberts has found a company that will encapsulate your vinyl to preserve it forever, but he can’t help wondering – considering you can’t play it – what the point...