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.

NOV/25

Diva’s encore • FOCAL EXPANDS ‘CONNECTED’ SPEAKER RANGE WITH NEW FLAGSHIP TOWER

Desktop delight? • NEW HIFI ROSE STREAMER/HEADPHONE AMP

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Signature sonics • TOP-OF-THE-RANGE QUARTET FROM PS AUDIO

Generation ‘X’ for Quad • ICONIC ELECTROSTATIC SPEAKERS MAKE ‘STEALTH’ RETURN

DALI – love is in the air • KUPID LOUDSPEAKER A ‘NEW ENTRY POINT TO HI-FI SOUND’

Pro-Ject’s tubular belle • BALANCED PHONO STAGE READY TO PLAY WITH BRAND’S DECKS

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Upcoming Events • INTERNATIONAL DATES FOR YOUR HI-FI DIARY

THE Uk hi-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

Audiojumble 2025

Spooky spins… • ’Tis definitely not the season to be jolly, as Steve Sutherland brings you a selection of musical chillers guaranteed to scare away those Halloween trick-or-treaters

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

ELAC Concentro 2.0 M 807 • In time for its 99th anniversary, ELAC launches a new flagship speaker with room-friendly, ‘steerable’ sound

EAT F-Dur/F-Note • Inspired by EAT’s longstanding Forte S turntable, the new F-Dur shares the two-motor drive concept but in a more elegant, technically evolved form. And the arm has a laser!

Lumin U2x • This new flagship network transport offers wholesale upgrades, from an isolated USB audio output and ‘milled from solid’ casework to – most obviously – an offboard PSU

Devialet Phantom Ultimate • Launched upon the audio world a decade ago, the Phantom was, and remains, the ‘demonstrator’ of all Devialet’s technologies. Ten years on, its promise is finally realised

PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid • The Dutch specialist broke with its all-tube tradition when it launched the EVO 300 Hybrid integrated amp. Its success has now inspired a bridgeable power amp version

T+A Symphonia • There’s more than a hint of retro styling to T+A’s slender all-in-one amplifier, but the feature set – including a custom DAC stage and Class D power – is thoroughly modern

Monitor Audio Bronze 50 7G • ‘A bold reimagining of the award-winning range’, claims Monitor Audio as it launches the 7th generation of its entry-level loudspeaker series. We hear the baby standmount…

Bluesound Node Icon • This compact black alloy box, with colour display, is top dog in Bluesound’s series of multiroom music streamers, and standard bearer for its MQA-derived QRONO d2a tech

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Orlando Gibbons Beyond The Silver Swan • His 17th century English madrigal defines the genre, says Peter Quantrill, but Orlando Gibbons’ output is astonishingly diverse for a composer who died before turning 40

Bad Company Bad Company • This 1974 debut LP forged a template for mid-’70s rock, in turn sealing the band’s claim to fame in the process...