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.

MAR/22

Twin Peaks

More Masters

HI-FI NEWS' NUGGETS

Mojo to go… again

Concept trickles down

QED gets Connected

Second generation trio

HI-FI NEWS? JUST ASK…

Who’s for seconds? • Artists can flounder when it comes to following a garlanded debut with a successful second release. But don’t write-off those follow-up albums just yet, says Johnny Sharp

Under the covers… • Johnny Sharp on the creation of the artwork for Isaac Hayes’ 1971 album Black Moses

NO ORDINARY JOEL

MAKING HAYES

The hi-finews & Record Review Reader Pledge • Hi-Fi News’ readers can take full confidence in the fact that every product featured on our front cover, throughout the magazine and on our website has been comprehensively reviewed (auditioned, photographed and lab tested) at our facility

D’Agostino Relentless Preamp • It’s taken three years, but it was worth the wait: D’Agostino’s Relentless Preamplifier has arrived, and it’s as much of a revelation as the matching power amplifiers

ULTIMATE POWER

DAN D’AGOSTINO

LAB REPORT

Ortofon MC Verismo • Precision manufacturing, state-of-the-art materials and magnet technologies combine in this new addition to the ‘Exclusives’ MC range – the ultimate blend of art and science?

DIAMOND – AN AUDIOPHILE’S BEST FRIEND

LAB REPORT

Astell&Kern ACRO CA1000 • With powerful battery pack and styling inspired by the Mars rover, the CA1000 aims to squeeze the performance of a full-sized ‘digital’ headphone amp into a portable player

ASTELL’S ACROBAT

LAB REPORT

Moonriver Audio Model 404 Reference • This boutique brand from Sweden has quietly been making a name for itself with a classically-styled, modular integrated amp. We test the ‘tickled up’ Reference version

UNDER THE CAN

LAB REPORT

HiFi Rose RS201 E • Korea’s Citech group is ploughing its considerable in-house hardware and software resource into a series of network-attached players. Here’s its most compact all-in-one

BIG SCREEN ACTION

LAB REPORT

Thorens TD 1500 • A handful of turntable brands lay claim to the first suspended subchassis model, but few, unlike Thorens’ TD 150 from 1965, were mass produced. Here’s its great grandson

TD 150 LEGACY

LAB REPORT

System Audio Legend 7.2 • Not all audiophiles have massive listening rooms… System Audio comes to the rescue with an on-wall ‘LCR’ loudspeaker aimed at both AV and two-channel enthusiasts

BOUNDARY GAIN

LAB REPORT

Roksan Attessa Streaming • The most comprehensively-equipped component of Roksan’s Attessa quartet combines phono, line and digital inputs with a BluOS streaming platform and beefy amplifier

BLUOS: HI-FI OVER WI-FI

LAB REPORT

Kimber Kable Naked • Kimber Kable has championed high quality dielectrics and open-weave cable geometries since the late ’70s, but now it’s gone ‘naked’.

Hans Abrahamsen 70th birthday celebration • Music that’s icy but never cold, new but strangely familiar… Peter Quantrill explores the enchanting and uncanny world of the perfectionist Danish composer

ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS

The Original Cast...