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

Make your Move • New range of portable British Bluetooth speakers

Back to mono • New power amp arrives in the UK

Spooking good! • High-end headphone driver

Ocean colour scene • A couple of new arrivals to Roksan’s Caspian range

Two’s company • Swish Swiss Pre-amp

Stay in focus • US headphone import

Ground force • OL ditches the hum

Circle line • Debut integrated amp

Sting in the tail • New preamp and rocktastic turntable

Changing rooms • Guitar amp specialist’s multi-room hub

Layer it up • Bookshelf addition to loudspeaker range

Rock me Amadeus! • Mozart-inspired US earphones

Retro-active • Mini ‘phones and upgraded portable player

Phono-graphic • New British phono stage

No-risk disc spinner • New UK CD transport

Brown sugar • Romanian cans coming your way

Fine and dandy • Hugely highly priced American monoblock amp

80 not out! • Limited-edition anniversary release from the USA

Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2026 • As the first major UK hi-fi show of the year, Bristol sets the stage for what to expect over the next 12 months. Here’s what you might have missed

Platinum service • After a spate of retro delights, Quad has a reminder it can do modern too. Ed Selley checks out the Platina Integrated

Get down • Who says subwoofers are only for movies? Mark Craven gets deeply dippy about REL’s latest entry-level offering

Smooth operator • Nick Tate is impressed as he fires up this sophisticated yet affordable wireless speaker package

One-two punch • The new flagship amp from Rega splits into two boxes for the first time in a while. Ed Selley checks them out

Super sonic • Scansonic HD’s affordable M series has been given a makeover. David Vivian takes the M30.2 floorstander for a spin

One box to rule them all • Mark Craven puts the new Swedish all-in-one through its paces and emerges mighty impressed

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

Cat that got the stream • Completing the six-box Varèse ‘stack’, dCS’ latest CD/SACD transport caters for physical media as well as streaming

“What changes from series to series is not philosophy, but expression” • Proving that exceptional sound quality and value can exist side by side, NAD has carved its own path for five decades

“Continuity is one of NAD’s greatest strengths”

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Titanic Audio • Anchor Plate Isolation Platform

Black Rhodium • XTRA RCA stereo interconnect

Flux HiFi • Flux-Brush record cleaner

Lack of information age • There’s never been more music available but, says Neville Roberts, the disappearance of liner notes means that streaming isn’t the information-rich experience it should be

Hi-fi choices • YOUR LETTERS & QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Music reviews

Qobuz playlist APRIL • This month’s pick of the best happening tunes to stream in hi-res from Qobuz

Buying Guide • Selecting the components you want to audition is never easy, but help is at hand with our pick of the best to pass through our respected reviewing process

RECORD STORE DAY 2026 • The 19th annual RSD arrives at independent...