The What Hi-Fi? Hall of Fame: the best hi-fi and home cinema products of all time

Three piles of bound issues of What Hi-Fi? magazine on a white background — (Image credit: Future)

In 2016 What Hi-Fi? celebrated its ruby anniversary. After 40 years in the game, we took a moment for a nostalgic look back at four decades of home entertainment.

And in so doing, we arrived at a list of our 40 favourite products of all time: the What Hi-Fi? Hall of Fame.

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10 years later and we're celebrating our 50th Anniversary – and we now have 49 products in our Hall of Fame, ahead of our 2026 Awards at the end of this year.

A lot has happened in the past decades. We've seen the birth and death of numerous products and formats - from Betamax to LaserDisc, Discman to MiniDisc – while the likes of CD, vinyl and Blu-ray have refused to die.

The Hall of Fame decade-by-decade

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Joe is the Content Director for What Hi-Fi? and Future’s Product Testing, having previously been the Global Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-Fi?. He has worked on What Hi-Fi? across the print magazine and website for almost 20 years, writing news, reviews and features on everything from turntables to TVs, headphones to hi-fi separates. He has covered product launch events across the world, from Apple to Technics, Sony and Samsung; reported from CES, the Bristol Show, and Munich High End for many years; and written for sites such as the BBC, Stuff and The Guardian. In his spare time, he enjoys expanding his vinyl collection and cycling (not at the same time).

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