Latest articles by Ketan Bharadia
Can Bowers & Wilkins’ flagship wireless headphones live up to their luxury price tag?
Monitor Audio’s newest Bronze standmounts are beautifully built and deliver a clear, confident, punchy sound that holds your attention at full throttle
Graham Slee’s Reflex M is a terrific moving magnet phono stage that’s capable well beyond its price.
PMC’s Prophecy 1 is a surprisingly capable performer that belies its small size by producing a superbly rounded sound.
Moving coil cartridges are the ultimate goal for many, but the price of good performance can be higher than you think.
The Cyrus 40 PPA phono stage delivers class-leading resolution and transparency in a well-equipped and thoughtful package.
The DT 990 Pro X are a revealing, insightful pair of comfortable wired headphones that strike a lovely sonic balance.
Focal’s Theva No.1 is a capable pair of standmounters that excels in delivering scale and sonic authority.
The Q3 Meta harness KEF’s latest innovations to terrific effect, resulting in speakers that outperform their reasonably affordable price point.
We talk to engineer Taresh Vadgama, who has spent over 40 years with NAD, and take a deep dive into the legendary budget amplifier's design
Fell Audio’s first amplifier is well-equipped, but does it have the sonic talent to worry the class leaders?
Can Fell Audio disrupt the affordable CD player market on its first attempt?
We talk to Lenbrook's Chief Technical Officer, Greg Stidsen, to find out about his hi-fi journey and what the future holds for NAD and Bluesound.
Eversolo’s DMP-A10 is a comprehensively equipped digital front end with a performance to match.
Eversolo’s compact streaming amplifier with CD drive is a great design with exhaustive features and is lovely to use, but its sound quality is far from satisfactory.
Fyne’s next-gen F502S floorstanders tease significant audio upgrades to deliver an authoritative, entertaining sound at this premium level.
The Inpol Remix MkII needs pampering, but do that and it is capable of a spellbinding performance.
Neat’s compact floorstanders prove just as entertaining and likeable as their five-star Petite Classic standmount siblings.
Easy servicing and repairability should be higher priorities for manufacturers
NAD’s C 3050 amplifier may evoke memories of the past, but fitted with the optional BluOS streaming module, it becomes a modern streaming system to reckon with.
Revisiting the classic Nakamichi DR-3
The FreeBuds Pro 4 aim to be the best-performing buds we’ve yet heard from Huawei, but do they offer enough sonically?
The Vertere DG-X’s significant engineering improvements result in a more powerful, refined, stable and dynamic performance that thrills in every way, while also being lovely to use.
