Australian HiFi

Australian HiFi is the definitive magazine for discerning listeners and Hi-Fi enthusiasts. Every issue is packed with equipment and music reviews, new product information and ‘how-to’ articles. Australian Hi-Fi magazine is dedicated to helping you find the best quality sound for your home.

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Australian HiFi

Market mainstays

A legend reborn

Added X factor

World’s first ‘lossless and immersive’ streaming service

Luxman joins the centurion club

Another nail in the coffin for physical media

NEWS FROM THE (FINAL!) HIGH END MUNICH SHOW

Qobuz gets Connect

Ultimate transparency

JBL journeys new peaks

WiiM’s HomePod killer

Double-anniversary Gryphon

Evo-n better

Level-up Levinsons

Musical Fidelity M8x Vinyl • Phono Preamplifier

EXPLAINING PHONO EQUALISATION

Laboratory Test Report • Readers interested in a full technical appraisal of the performance of the Musical Fidelity M8x Vinyl Phono Preamplifier should continue on and read the LABORATORY REPORT published on the following pages. Readers should note that the results mentioned in the report, tabulated in performance charts and/or displayed using graphs and/or photographs should be construed as applying only to the specific sample tested.

Audio Pro A28 • Wireless Stereo Speakers

Rega Brio Mk7 • Integrated Amplifier

Marantz Grand Horizon • Wireless Speaker

A MORE VIABLE HORIZON

A quartet of quintets • Ketan Bharadia travels to Denmark to hear Ortofon’s latest Quintet moving-coil cartridge series and speak to the man behind it…

Sights & sounds from the Australian Hi-Fi Show, Sydney 2025

Engineers discuss how there’s more to music streamers than their chipsets

Eclipsa Audio: the ins and outs of Samsung and Google’s new Dolby Atmos rival

Premium Sound — and looks • St Kilda’s premium audio store has opened the first ‘Focal Powered by Naim’ showroom in Australia

Vitus Audio SD-025 Mk.II • Streaming DAC

Laboratory Test Report

185-inch screen, 19-channel sound, $500k system… and that’s just in one of three cinema rooms! • Step inside Audio Active’s all-new Amplify AV Experience Centre in Port Melbourne

Music Reviews Top Picks

Music Reviews Reissues

7 EXQUISITE JAZZ TEST TRACKS • Jazz is a divisive art form. For those who are partial, it’s America’s single largest contribution to 20th-century music and popular culture. For those less convinced, it can often sound like it’s being made up on the spot - a textbook ‘I could have done that’ form of art. But regardless of whether or not you know your Basie from your Bird, there’s no denying the hi-fi potency of a great jazz recording…