Wednesday April 30, 2008 June Issue of Hi-Fi Choice on sale May 1st
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Monday April 28, 2008 The High End Show, Munich M.O.C.
Hi-Fi shows often have a sameness about them. One hotel looks very much like another, conference halls look alike, you even see the same people at every show across the globe given the chance. Not so the High End Show. There's something distinctly...
Monday April 21, 2008 Xenon Amphion
The Xenon is the new flagship floorstander from Finnish loudspeaker experts Amphion. The company is already well-known for its elegant loudspeaker cabinets and the new top of the range model is no exception. It uses a unique 'hypercardioid' cabinet, which...
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We're so sorry. The Hi-Fi Choice team has been so wrapped
up in making a good magazine, that our interwebular presence took a bit
of a back seat. Okay, not making a single entry in the better part of a
year pushes the concept of 'a bit' farther than...
Thursday March 08, 2007 Make vroom for Meridian
Meridian Audio is one of those high end names that rubs shoulders with the rich and famous. It could be the Ferrari of hi-fi. Funny that... 'cos Meridian's latest product is the F80, which so impressed the motocenti of Maranello, this new product has...
Thursday November 30, 2006 Small is beautiful
I love big speakers. Nothing else delivers the visceral quality of music like a full bandwidth speaker playing at high level, nothing else punches you in the sternum and resonates the furniture in such gripping fashion. However, fortunately, size has no...
Dylan's (not so) Modern Times
So Bob Dylan can't stand the sound of modern records. The audio quality of CDs is "atrocious", he says and today's recording techniques leave you merely with "static" instead of 'real' music. He even thinks digital technology is ruining his own records. Of...
Keith Jarrett - The Carnegie Hall Concert
I don’t get to review titles of a regular CD persuasion in HFC so I thought I’d mention Keith Jarrett’s Carnegie Hall Concert two disc set that has just been released. This is one of the best sounding digital recordings I’ve heard, regardless of format. I’ve...
Friday November 10, 2006 Victory!
People power really can work, folks! On July 6 this year, malign forces working in dark places within the BBC's digital radio laboratory downgraded the bitrate of BBC Radio Three, from 192kbps to 160kbps. The reason for the cut in quality was 'bandwidth',...
Sweet Talking
Some would claim that music is the international language, others that it is the Queen’s English. But this would be to ignore the creative literary delights that are to be found in instruction manuals, adverts and on fabulous products everywhere. As well as...
Friday September 01, 2006 Class In Pocket
Shut down your iPod for the evening, cue the Hovis advert and relax with a steaming cuppa. Cast your mind back to the days before hard drives an inch square existed, to a time when you couldn't carry a pointlessly large number of songs around in a sliver of...
Tuesday August 22, 2006 Power korrupts...
Last night I discovered that sometimes with hi-fi, the most straightforward approach is the best. The mighty Linn Artikulat 350A loudspeaker (reviewed in The Collection this year – issue 282) had returned along with an LP12 turntable and all the trimmings...
Are you an audioholic?
One of the problems associated with hi-fi, a problem which affects many true audiophiles at one time or another, is audioholism. This debilitating condition can strike at any age, but seems to be particularly prevalent in middle-aged men with an excess of...
Wednesday August 02, 2006 Own a slice of hi-fi history
It's silly season, of course. But anyone really into Arcam should race over to eBay at a hefty one mile per hour and place their bid on Ernie - Arcam's delivery truck. Okay, Ernie only delivered components from the factory to the warehouse, but the former milk...
