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.

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New range for Nagra • BALANCED TUBE-BASED PREAMP KICKS OFF SWISS COMPANY’S SERIES II HARDWARE

Streaming debut • MISSION UNVEILS PARTNER FOR 778X AMP

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B&W’s 707 refresh • SANTOS GLOSS AND MORE FOR PRESTIGE ED.

Meet Mola Mola’s mono • COMPACT, 350W AMP UPGRADES BRAND’S ‘TRAJECTUM’ TECH

One for all and all for one • PRO-JECT PREAMP PRIMED FOR SOURCES FROM VINYL TO TV

Meze closed-back cans • STRADA PAIRS 50MM DRIVERS WITH MACASSAR WOOD ’CUPS

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Upcoming Events • INTERNATIONAL DATES FOR YOUR HI-FI DIARY

HXOS Eikona 2025 • Sights and sounds from around the globe

Headbangin’ sounds! • Out of the hard rock swamps of the early 1970s rose a new form of guitar music that wanted to turn everything up to 11. Mark Craven searches for the origins of heavy metal

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

TAD A1000 • Trickled down from TAD’s existing Class D power amplifiers and partnering preamp, the A1000 is the first integrated model designed to complement its storied Evolution series

Acoustic Energy Corinium • Seen here in its new pearlescent Midnight Silver finish, AE’s flagship floorstander aims at a sub/sat system in a single box

PS Audio PMG Signature SACD Transport/512 DAC • PS Audio’s head honcho, Paul McGowan, signs off a new range of separates that reflect the state of the company’s art, including this I2 S-linked SACD transport and DAC

Analog Relax EX700 • Japanese moving-coil artisan Yasushi Yurugi proposes ‘an analogue life that will make you feel “at ease” from the bottom of your heart’. Will the EX700 set pulses racing?

Onkyo P-80/M-80 • From the Premium Audio Company Technology Centre in Osaka, part of the diverse US Gentex Corporation, Onkyo returns to its specialist hi-fi roots with a new pre/power

EAT E-Glo Petit B • While European Audio Team’s (EAT) latest E-Glo tube/hybrid phono preamplifier looks similar to its predecessors, key circuit revisions deliver a glowing uplift in performance

Quad Platina Integrated • Launched in the vanguard of a new flagship series of hi-fi separates, is this powerful and comprehensively equipped amplifier ‘the best integrated Quad has ever made’?

DALI Epikore 7 • The most compact floorstander in the Danish brand’s premium range is a statement speaker in its own right…

Siltech Classic Legend 380L • This Dutch cable brand has been serving audiophile hi-fi systems for many decades. We test its modern ‘Classic’.

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’ • A huge field of options on record leaves Peter Quantrill searching for those versions which embrace the violence and volatility of the composer’s ‘farewell symphony’

ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS

Foreigner 4 • Trimmed down to a four-piece, but with the help of session musicians and in-demand producer Mutt Lange, the British/American rock band honed their hook-laden...