Hi-Fi

An early career as a radio actor doesn't seem the most obvious start for a speaker designer and the future boss of one of the world's biggest audio companies, but that was exactly the path taken by Arnold Wolf (above), who died last week at the ...

So Naim’s putting all its ‘computer audio’ efforts into streaming products, isn't it? After all, since it launched the original NaimUniti – amazingly, that was just short of four years ago, time flying when having fun and all that – it has ...

Today’s a significant anniversary in the history of recorded music: the world's first CD players were announced in Japan on October 1st, 1982.   And despite the rearguard action fought by some record companies – and some audiophile ...

Read our full review of the Simple Audio Roomplayer 1We've been following the progress of Simple Audio for a couple of years now, waiting for this new start-up to bring its long-awaited high-resolution multiroom audio system to market.Well that ...

Now online: read our Pure Highway 300Di review Blog published 27.11.11We've had the Pure team down to whathifi.com's HQ fitting out First Test Editor Andy Madden's Vauxhall Astra with the firm's new £180 Highway 300Di in-car ...

Big hi-fi news this morning as Naim Audio and Focal announce their merger (more in our story here).The newly conjoined company has issued a Q&A covering a lot of the key issues involved in the deal - here are the highlights below.We'll be ...

 I’ve just been reading my colleague Andrew Everard’s column in the February issue of our sister magazine, Gramophone. Andrew’s piece is titled “The changing face of system connectivity”, and in it he outlines how far we’ve come from the ...

Wow – it’s been quite a journey from the moment, several months ago, when I sat down with our art director Paul Mitchell, and we asked ourselves ‘how can we make this magazine better?’Today, if you’re a subscriber, you get to see the answer – if ...

We've just had official confirmation of tech specs and prices for Quad's new Elite Series of hi-fi components, on sale from September. Here are details and pictures of the first five models in the range: Quad Elite CDS £799.95• D/A Converter: ...

There are two reasons why I have a problem with firmware updates, and one is that they can be used to cover deficiencies in a product – things the manufacturer should have addressed before putting it into the shops.I've lost count of the number ...