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October 31
- Loewe TVs get personalised audio upgrade
- Cabasse launches The Pearl, a £2599 smart streaming speaker
October 30
- Apple confirms new 11in and 12.9in iPad Pros with upgraded speakers
- Audio Technica’s ATH-M50xBT wireless over-ears promise 40-hour battery
October 29
- OnePlus announces 6T with 6.41in screen and new in-display fingerprint tech
- New Apple iPad Pro reportedly has larger screen and USB-C charging port
October 26
- Huawei’s new smart speaker looks very much like the Apple HomePod
- LG 8K OLED TVs could launch in June 2019
- Anker’s pocket projector gets AV upgrades for second-gen version
October 24
- Musical Fidelity launches M2 range of hi-fi separates
- Google Play offers free 4K film upgrades, drops prices
October 23
- Make Some Noise for Sonos' Play:5 Beastie Boys Edition speaker
- Elipson’s new MC Mini: a £380 Bluetooth stereo amplifier
- RIP DVD: John Lewis ditches DVD players with sales down 40%
- Qualcomm wants to help create more Alexa-powered wireless headphones
October 22
- Sony AV receivers and soundbars get HDMI eARC update
October 19
- Polk’s new Signature E Series speakers offer surround sound packages from £670
October 18
- Moon launches £399 110LP v2 phono preamplifier
- Audiolab's M-DAC Nano is a matchbox-sized Bluetooth DAC
October 17
- Optoma launches £1500 portable 4K projector with Alexa voice control
- McIntosh launches the MC312, a £10K stereo power amplifier
- Elipson celebrates 80th anniversary with special edition gold spheres and turntable
October 16
- Huawei launches Mate 20 Pro with supersize 2K+ OLED screen
October 15
- Pioneer and Onkyo roll out eARC and MQA updates
- Grado launches £200 GW100 Bluetooth headphones
October 12
- What Hi-Fi? Awards 2018: Sony and Panasonic boast the best Blu-ray players
October 11
- Tidal’s hi-res Masters (MQA) tracks surpass one million
- Five What Hi-Fi? Awards champion budget to high-end speaker packages
- Samsung Galaxy A9 aims to be ultimate phone for the Instagram generation
- 13 pairs of headphones walk away with Awards
- Apple reportedly developing new video service with free original content
October 10
- Denon dominates the home cinema amp Awards category
- What Hi-Fi? Awards 2018: Sonos and Audio Pro are multi-room kings
- Rega, Pro-Ject and Sony take home best turntable Awards
October 9
- New Chromecast adds 1080p/60fps streaming and multi-room audio
- Google Pixel 3 phones promise best ever cameras and AV upgrades
- What Hi-Fi? Awards salutes four class-leading wireless speakers
- Google Home Hub: a display-toting, Amazon Echo Show-rivalling smart speaker
- Marshall launches new Bluetooth speakers and £120 wireless in-ears
- MQA arrives on Astell & Kern music players, new Audiolab DAC and more
- Sonos Beam among five soundbar and soundbase What Hi-Fi? Award winners
- Save 50% on Audio Pro Addon C5 wireless speaker
- Focal launches Elegia, its first high-end closed-back headphones
- What Hi-Fi? Awards celebrates turntable, hi-fi and all-in-one systems
- Devialet Phantom Reactor: a £990, 600-watt ‘mini’ Phantom wireless speaker
October 8
- The Duo turntable has a detachable wireless speaker and Alexa voice control
- What Hi-Fi? Awards 2018: Optoma wins big with two 4K projectors
- The 14 best speakers of the year scoop Awards - KEF, Dali, Monitor Audio and more
- 5 top TVs take home What Hi-Fi? Awards 2018
- 102 class-leading products win What Hi-Fi? Awards 2018
October 4
- Rega announces new Planar 8 turntable inspired by its £30k Naiad deck
- NAD introduces midrange turntable, amplifier and BluOS streaming DAC
- HD Vinyl partners with major pressing plants for autumn 2019 launch
- Sony teases potential music streaming service
- LG V40 ThinQ is a flagship smartphone tuned by Meridian Audio
- RHA TrueConnect: £150 true wireless buds with 25-hour battery life
October 3
- New Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K supports Dolby Vision, Atmos and HDR10+
- Microsoft confronts Bose with noise-cancelling Surface headphones
- Samsung Q900R 8K QLED TVs start at £5000, pre-order open now
October 2
- Thorens unveils two budget plug-and-play turntables
- Amazon could announce free, ad-supported streaming service this week
October 1
- Netflix considering interactive films and TV shows
- Bluesound launches seven Generation 2i multi-room products
- New third-gen Google Chromecast goes on sale before official launch