Australian Hi-Fi Show Sydney 2026 latest news... new attractions
Mark your calendar for the Sydney show in 2026 – come and find your sound across four floors of audio & AV wonders!
Following this year's successful show, the dates for the Australian Hi-Fi Show Sydney 2026 have been announced, bringing four floors of audio and AV entertainment back to the Sydney Central Hotel in Thomas St, Haymarket.
Tickets are now available from Ticketebo here.
The Australian Hi-Fi Show Sydney 2026 will take place on Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd May 2026 at the 4.5-star boutique Sydney Central Hotel, in Thomas St, Haymarket, a short walk from Central Station in an easily accessible CBD location right in the heart of the city.
Sydney's premier hi-fi and video show is brought to you by Australian Hi-Fi, What Hi-Fi? and Sound+Image magazines, celebrating the latest and greatest in the hi-fi and AV industry, giving visitors the opportunity to see and hear a range of products from all around the world.
For three days you can enjoy live demonstrations of some of the world's most renowned hi-fi and AV brands including high-end audio, TVs, projectors, headphones, home theatre systems, amplifiers, streamers, wireless and Bluetooth speakers and everything in between.
HOMEGROWN HI-FI!
An all-Aussie entrance to the Corridor of Sound at the Australian Hi-Fi Show, Sydney 2026
A new feature at next May's Australian Hi-Fi Show in Sydney will be a unique focus on our homegrown Aussie audio stars, with a sequence of rooms showcasing the Australian design and manufacturing talent of our homegrown hi-fi brands that are taking on the world!
Building on the current 'Homegrown' issue of Sound+Image magazine, the all-Aussie entrance to the Show's famous Corridor of Sound promises no tariffs, no exchange-rate blues, just a big beautiful True Blue boost of fine music through all-Australian equipment. It's a special event not to be missed – mark your calendars now!
INCLUDES:
Microphase Audio Design – Corridor of Sound, Room 2
SpectraFlora – Corridor of Sound, Room 7
Serhan Swift – Corridor of Sound, Room 8
March Audio – Corridor of Sound, Room 18
Richter – Corridor of Sound, Room 19
DAN-A – Corridor of Sound, Room 20
THE BIG ROOMS
Bring your own music, relax, and enjoy the listening experience in the Show's comfortable sound lounges and rooms – and find what kit is right for YOU. The Show has three floors of big listening rooms: take the lift to the special Basement display areas, walk right of ground floor reception for the Lower Ground Suites, while the big Level 1 Mezzanine Rooms are hard to miss, right by the entrance ticketing up on the mezzanine. Don't miss these great demonstrations!
IN THE SOUND CELLAR (Kirribilli Room, Basement)
Mcleans Smarter Home Entertainment
IN THE PROJECTION PIT (Spring Cove Room, Basement)
Leica Australia
ON THE LOWER GROUND
Elizabeth Bay Room (Lower Ground)
Synergy Audio Visual (Sonus faber, REL and more)
Watsons Bay Room (Lower Ground)
Bowers & Wilkins, Marantz, Denon & other Harman/Sound United brands
Lavender Bay Room (Lower Ground)
Yamaha Music Australia
IN LEVEL ONE MEZZANINE ROOMS
Port Jackson Room (Level 1)
Avation with Vivid Audio
Farm Cove Room (Level 1)
Wavetrain Cinemas
Bennelong Point Room (Level 1)
Cogworks
Mezzanine
Beyerdynamic from Synchronised Technology
THE CORRIDOR OF SOUND!
Up in the tower of the Sydney Central Hotel, the Show takes a full floor of accommodation rooms and strips out the furniture to create a corridor with magical music behind every door. These rooms resemble (roughly) a real listening room in the home, so it's a chance to hear multiple systems performing as they might when you take them home. Behind the doors of the corridor of sound, you will find wonders from:
Audio Marketing including Musical Fidelity & Triangle – Corridor of Sound, Room 2
Microphase Audio Design – Corridor of Sound, Room 3
SpectraFlora – Corridor of Sound, Room 7
Serhan Swift – Corridor of Sound, Room 8
Yamaha Music Australia – Corridor of Sound, Room 11
Harman brands formerly from Masimo – Corridor of Sound, Room 12
March Audio – Corridor of Sound, Room 18
Richter – Corridor of Sound, Room 19
DAN-A – Corridor of Sound, Room 20
Magenta Audio – Corridor of Sound, Room 21
The Show is all just a short walk from Sydney's Central Station in an easily accessible CBD location right in the heart of the city, and surrounded by incredible food!
So mark your calendars now for:
- The Australian Hi-Fi Show Sydney 2026
- Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd May 2026
- Sydney Central Hotel, in Thomas St, Haymarket, right in the heart of the city.
Stay tuned for more info & tickets offers!
Australian Hi-Fi is one of What Hi-Fi?’s sister titles from Down Under and Australia’s longest-running and most successful hi-fi magazines, having been in continuous publication since 1969. Now edited by What Hi-Fi?'s Becky Roberts, every issue is packed with authoritative reviews of hi-fi equipment ranging from portables to state-of-the-art audiophile systems (and everything in between), information on new product launches, and ‘how-to’ articles to help you get the best quality sound for your home.
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