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 • hifichoice.com Issue No. 546 November 2026

Silver service • Brand new UK speaker range

Natural instincts • New headphones and music player

Height of luxury • New very high-end flagship Swiss amp

Surfin’ USA • Turntable and soundstage from Denver

Core values • US stereo amp import

Jedi master • Second-generation entry-level belt-drive TT

Spin king • Special limited-edition anniversary DJ-popular deck

Power to the people! • A duo of Danish active speaker imports

Power and the glory • New Italian ‘clean’ power supply

Es are good! • A pair of affordable new vinyl spinners

High five • Passive standmount import from Japan

Mix masters • Austrian headphone import for studio buffs

See the lite • Small version of British all-in-one system

Go fort and conquer • Four new speakers from heritage UK brand

Come together • Gen 2 headphone import from China

Heart throb • Compact Canadian soon-come sub

How low can you go? • Two new Danish subs

Stream lover • Japanese compact streaming amp and streamer

Deeper and down • Colourful compact Danish bass box

Ahead of the pack • New headset for streamers, gamers and content providers

Born to be wild • Iconic motorcycle-styled turntable

Analogue avenger • David Vivian samples a premium analogue integrated from Italy that hides something very special beneath a rather plain wrapper

Have it large! • The successor to iFi’s Gryphon packs the features and power of a desktop DAC into a portable design. Cliff Joseph checks it out

Giant killer • The Italian company has updated the floorstander in its Classica range. Mark Craven reckons it’s a stylish winner

Wide angle • The first full-width Cyrus amplifier offering is a very big deal. Ed Selley thinks the British company might be on to something

Discworld • The latest Eversolo streamer takes the brand in different directions. Ed Selley thinks they are rather good ones too

Blast from the past • Nick Tate reckons Acoustic Energy’s new AE2 40th Anniversary speaker is a treasure trove of times gone by

High supply • Neville Roberts takes Vertere’s latest power supply for its Tempo motor drive (among others) for a spin

Power up! • Cambridge has taken its capable 150 SE and given it a healthy power boost. Ed Selley discovers this isn’t the full story

Russ Andrews • Kimber Kable NEO-CU RCA interconnect

XLO Cables • Signature S35 RCA interconnect

Atlas Cables • Hyper RCA Duo R1 interconnect

Range topper • It’s all in the cabinet – Bowers & Wilkins’ fifth-generation flagship distills the 801 D4 Signature into a superior frame

Noise annoys • An understandably indignant Steve Sutherland investigates the growing nuisance of other people’s music impinging on your commute

Robotic repertoires • Is the future of classical music robotic? Neville Roberts has come across a performance of a musical concert by a humanoid robot

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