Hi-Fi Show Live 2016

Advance tickets are now on sale for the UK’s premier high-end audio event – The Hi-Fi Show Live at the Beaumont Estate conference centre, Old Windsor on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October 2016. Tickets cost £20 (or £30 for a weekend pass) via eventbrite.co.uk where both Hi-Fi Choice and Hi-Fi News subscribers can also discover details of our special £15 day pass. Please return regularly for more details.

Is AKG’s N90Q headphone (HFC 405) the future of personal listening? Equipped with noise cancellation and TruNote auto calibration, it adapts its output to suit the unique ‘ear space’ of every listener. Experience this amazing, DSP-driven headphone yourself at The Hi-Fi Show Live.

Described as its “emphatic response” to the challenge of designing a supreme flagship floorstander, and demonstrated for the first time in the UK at The Hi-Fi Show Live, ELAC’s Concentro combines a 140kg monolithic cabinet with a 25kg stand milled from a single block of alloy!

Launched to huge acclaim at last year’s Hi-Fi Show Live, the revamped version of KEF’s iconic Muon loudspeaker will partner with Chord Electronics’ flagship DAVE DAC and Reference Monoblock amplifiers as the centrepiece of our new White House exhibition space. Prepare to be truly amazed!  

Proving just how adept it has become at trickling down its bespoke digital technologies, PS Audio will be showing off the DirectStream Junior USB DAC, which now includes its ‘Bridge II’ network connection as standard. Get ready to be wowed!

Focal returns to the Hi-Fi Show Live with a new and considerably beefier version of the EISA Award winning Sopra No2 floorstander. The 70kg Sopra No3 features a larger cabinet and a pair of 8in woofers to develop a deeper, grander sound!

Appearing for the first time at The Hi-Fi Show Live will be Gato Audio with its iconic, curvaceous and sublime-sounding separates. Pictured above is the PWR-222 reference monoblock amp, which will be heard through Triangle loudspeakers

Audio Alchemy’s much-anticipated PPA-1 phono stage will be unveiled by designer Peter Madnick at The Hi-Fi Show Live. This fully discrete, all-analogue FET design looks set to impress

B&W’s redesign and relaunch of its entire 800 Diamond series is arguably the biggest ‘loudspeaker event’ of 2016. Visitors will be able to compare and contrast across B&W’s entire range – including the supreme 800 D3

Plato will have its debut at The Hi-Fi Show Live with its ultra flexible Class A all-in-one music recording, storage and amplifier solution, as reviewed exclusively in issue 414

Bel Canto’s ‘Black’ system is no ordinary pre/power combo. At The Hi-Fi Show Live you’ll see how the MPS1 monoblock amplifiers receive a digital input over ST glass fibre cable from the partnering ASC1 master controller. The ASC1 provides a full suite of digital and analogue inputs, including Ethernet and USB2.0, and manages all inputs, volume and system functions 

Already the stuff of loudspeaker legend, the Magico M3 picks up where the limited edition M-Project left off. Come hear this three-way, five-driver, alloy/carbon fibre floorstander at The Hi-Fi Show Live 

Appearing for the first time at The Hi-Fi Show Live will be Vivid Audio with its curvaceous Giya G4 loudspeaker, driven by electronics from Mola Mola

Here’s an exclusive picture of AudioQuest’s yet-to-be-announced closed-back NightOwl headphone. Sharing some of the innovative technology developed for its inaugural open-backed NightHawk headphone – including the decoupled capsules – you can compare both at The Hi-Fi Show Live

The Hi-Fi Show Live will not only provide enthusiasts with the opportunity to compare models from B&W’s award-winning D3 range from 2016, but we will also be taking a trip down memory lane with earlier examples of the 800 marque, including the original 801...

Advance tickets are now on sale for the UK’s premier high-end audio event – The Hi-Fi Show Live at the Beaumont Estate conference centre, Old Windsor on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October 2016. Tickets cost £20 (or £30 for a weekend pass) via eventbrite.co.uk where both Hi-Fi Choice and Hi-Fi News subscribers can also discover details of our special £15 day pass. Please return regularly for more details.

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