Following another successful show in 2025, all eyes are now on this year's Australian Hi-Fi Show in Sydney. The dates are set and the exhibiting brands are locked in to bring you four floors of audio and AV entertainment at 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.
HOMEGROWN HI-FI!
An all-Aussie entrance to the Corridor of Sound at the Australian Hi-Fi Show, Sydney 2026
A new feature at the Australian Hi-Fi Show in Sydney in 2026 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 (issue #365), 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 3
Lenehan Brothers – Corridor of Sound, Room 4
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 off the 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 level. 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
Bennelong Point Room (Level 1)
Cogworks
Mezzanine
Beyerdynamic from Synchronised Technology
Wavetrain Cinemas – Farm Cove Room (Level 1)
Wavetrain Cinemas brought a huge, high-end home cinema demonstration to the Australian Hi-Fi Show in 2025, and it's planning on doing the same again this year. Hot off the heels of taking home the CEDIA award for 'Best Home Cinema – Global' – Wavetrain Cinemas clearly knows what it takes to deliver a first-class home AV installation.
Its winning cinema installation, shown above, has a full suite of Elementi speakers hidden away; Wavetrain’s founder and managing director David Moseley is also the creator and designer of Elementi Audio speakers.
Elementi’s ranges are elementally grouped, and cleverly named: the ‘Earth’ range of subwoofers includes models called Basalt, Onyx, Iridium and Kola, the company’s brand-new ‘Water’ range of Atmos speakers (see panel) has Slipstream, Maelstrom and Tsunami varieties. The main Elementi speakers divide between ‘Fire’ and ‘Air’ ranges: the ‘Fire’ speakers use compression drivers for their high -frequency delivery while the ‘Air’ models switch to a pleated diaphragm tweeter. See what Wavetrain Cinemas has to demonstrate at this year's show in the Farm Cove Room on Level 1.
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. Read on for a full rundown of the brands that will be exhibiting at the show, and what you can expect from their demonstrations.
Audio Marketing including Musical Fidelity & Triangle – Corridor of Sound, Room 2
Yamaha Music Australia – Corridor of Sound, Room 11
Harman brands formerly from Masimo – Corridor of Sound, Room 12
DAN-A – Corridor of Sound, Room 20
Magenta Audio – Corridor of Sound, Room 21
March Audio – Corridor of Sound, Room 18
Founded in 2018 in Western Australia, March Audio’s first products were power amplifiers, and these remain at the core of the company’s offerings. They are all black and purposeful units, hand-built to strict quality control and an extensive testing regime – a process that has evidently paid off given the multiple awards they've won.
March Audio has forged a successful relationship with Denmark’s Purifi, which makes the modules at the heart of March’s amplifiers. It's the way March implements these Purifi components that has proven critical to the success of the products. The amplifiers need an upfront pre-amplifier suited to their very low input impedance, a buffer amplifier good enough to allow the highest abilities, and a top-quality power supply.
It's not just amp that has made March famous though. The Aussie brand also has a talented range of speakers, such as the Ukkonen floorstanders. These speakers have also been made with the help of Purifi, which supplies the drivers. The results speak for themselves, as those who have heard them at hi-fi shows can attest, while March’s prices can seem remarkably low for their performance level. Find out more by visiting March Audio in Room 18 on 'The Corridor of Sound'
Microphase Audio Design – Corridor of Sound, Room 3
Microphase Audio Design (M.A.D. to its friends) combines its Australian boutique craftsmanship with French audiophile heritage thanks to Jean-Marie Lière, an engineer whose career bridges the golden age of French high-fidelity with the modern era of home cinema and smart homes: when still in Europe he was founding president of CEDIA's European operations.
Jean-Marie will be returning the Australian Hi-Fi Show in 2026 with the recently released Tower 3 Signature, a three-way speaker that combines the Sat MK3.3 standmount, with a side-firing 31 cm bass driver. The standalone Sat MK3.3 will also be on display, alongside the Tower 4 Signature.
See and hear the full range in Room 3 on the 'Corridor of Sound'.
Richter Acoustics – Corridor of Sound, Room 19
Richter Acoustics celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2026, and is doing so in style with a new Series 7 Special Edition (S7SE), which will debut at this year's Australian Hi-Fi Show and promises “a bold new chapter” for the company.
Richter describes the new speaker series as a leap forward in both striking visual design and sonic performance: “S7SE is our definitive statement range — refined, powerful, and unmistakably Richter,” Richter’s Brian Rodgers tells us. “The new line-up will include the Wizard S7SE, Dragon S7SE, and Excalibur S7SE — each crafted to deliver unrivalled musicality across genres and formats.” See and hear the new models in Room 19 on the 'Corridor of Sound'.
Serhan Swift – Corridor of Sound, Room 8
As its name suggests, Serhan Swift brings together the considerable talents of loudspeaker designer Brad Serhan with engineering director and business manager Morris Swift. Both have extended histories in audio design and beyond, with Swift bringing experience in research, design and manufacturing for high-end communications and medical devices as well as amplifiers, processors and speakers. Meanwhile Serhan has designed and consulted for an extraordinary list of Australian hi-fi brands over the years, with his own Orpheus Loudspeakers founded in 1984, before later working freelance for companies including Axis, Avega DSP, Acoustic 3D, Danville Signal, Moos DSP, Richter, Subsonic and Whatmough. Hear it all and more in Room 8 on the 'Corridor of Sound'.
SpectraFlora – Corridor of Sound, Room 7
Based in Inverleigh, Victoria, SpectraFlora is a relatively new company, founded in 2020 by Dr Steve Van Sluyter, who then spent four years conducting fundamental research into cabinet configurations and drivers with the goal of delivering what SpectraFlora defines as "pure, lifelike and emotionally engaging" natural sound. We'd argue he succeeded with his first speaker model, the Celata 88, which was on display at last year's show (and a review of which you'll in Australian Hi-Fi #542).
The Celata 88 will return this year, alongside SpectraFlora's second speaker, the Aphelia 8. SpectraFlora says this new model "shares the same sonic DNA" as the flagship, but in a more compact two-way form, with bass duties handled by an 8-inch graphene-coated magnesium driver housed in a sealed cabinet. The compression driver installed behind the Dynamic Waveguide is a new one-inch from Beyma in Spain that uses a hard polymer annular ring diaphragm.
See and hear both SpectraFlora speaker models in Room 7 on the 'Corridor of Sound'.
Lenehan Brothers – Corridor of Sound, Room 7
Lenehan Brothers is a rebirth of Australia's Lenehan Audio now under the auspices of brothers Russell and Martin, taking over from original founder Mike Lenehan.
Brother Russell Lenehan explains that the brothers have been together as music fans since their earliest days.
“Michael and I built our first pair of loudspeakers, with the help of our carpenter father,” he says. “Mike became the designer and builder, while I handled the calculations using Thiele-Small parameters — straight from the original papers, long before software tools existed.”
Lenehan’s facilities grew from a converted garage in Nerang to a dedicated factory in Ashmore producing acclaimed ML1 and ML2 standmounts, and the ML5 floorstanders.
The new Lenehan Brothers brings a brand-new speaker design, the pictured System One (a system courtesy of their matched dedicated stands and isolation pods); these are being handbuilt on the Gold Coast using local hardwood timbers including spotted gum and Merbau, with each speaker individually matched, measured and auditioned against the reference.
The Sydney show is your chance to hear these unique Australian designs: don't miss them in Room 4 of the 'Corridor of Sound'.
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!
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