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Astell & Kern's new A&norma SR25 MKII

Astell & Kern unveils successor to Award-winning A&norma SR25 hi-res music player

By Becky Scarrott

The SR25 MKII adds new features to an Award-winning recipe, including a balanced 4.4mm headphone jack and tweaks to its already eye-catching design.

Melco unveils its most affordable SSD music library, the N50-S38

Melco launches its most affordable SSD music library to date

By Becky Scarrott

The new Japanese-crafted N50 offers an SSD-based digital music library, plus dedicated USB connectivity.

OLED TV: Panasonic TX-55JZ1500B

Panasonic to halt in-house production of TVs

By Mary Stone

Panasonic is to cease in-house production of its TVs at its factory in the Czech Republic.

LG OLED55CX

LG CX and GX OLED TVs now support 4K@120Hz with Dolby Vision

By Tom Bailey

LG's top 2020 OLED TVs have now got even better at gaming thanks to a new firmware update – here's how to get it...

Rega Aethos

What Hi-Fi? Awards 2021: Rega and Cambridge Audio reinforce their supremacy in stereo amp category

By Ketan Bharadia

The British brands each win two Best Buys in the What Hi-Fi? Awards stereo amp category and are joined by Marantz and Naim.

Formula1.com

The F1 TV app is now available on Apple TV

By Mary Stone

F1 TV has launched a new app for Apple TV, allowing subscribers to live stream every 2021 F1 Grand Prix in Full HD.

Latest Reviews

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Cambridge Audio CXA61 review

By What Hi-Fi?

Cambridge Audio’s midrange amplifier sounds superb and has a comprehensive feature list – but there's a hefty price rise too.

In-ear wireless headphones: Technics EAH-AZ60

Technics EAH-AZ60 review

By What Hi-Fi?

Technics evolves both design and performance for its second effort in the true wireless earbuds market.

Home cinema speaker package: Triangle Borea BR08 5.1 surround system

Triangle Borea BR08 5.1 speaker package review

By What Hi-Fi?

High-end brand Triangle has trickled down its tech into this accessibly priced and charismatic speaker package

High end integrated amplifier: Musical Fidelity M8xi

Musical Fidelity M8xi review

By What Hi-Fi?

Musical Fidelity's M8xi is a super-sized integrated amplifier that delivers the expected muscularity with a surprising degree of finesse.

Sonos review

Sonos multi-room system review

By What Hi-Fi?

Sonos offers a full suite of good to great multi-room speakers for music and movies.

Noise cancelling headphones: Bose QuietComfort 45

Bose QuietComfort 45 review

By What Hi-Fi?

Given the five-year wait for a full revamp of Bose's previous QuietComfort headphones, you’d be forgiven for thinking there’s not much new to see here. But what is there to hear?

Samsung UE50AU8000

Samsung UE50AU8000 50-inch TV review

By What Hi-Fi?

With its bright, colourful pictures and aggressive price, the AU8000 seems perfectly positioned to continue the brand’s stellar form…

Sport headphones: Jaybird Vista 2

Jaybird Vista 2 review

By What Hi-Fi?

Sport headphones connoisseur Jaybird looks to run away with best-in-class honours with its Vista 2, so how do these true wireless earbuds fare?

Budget 4K TV: Hisense 43A6GTUK

Hisense 43A6GTUK review

By What Hi-Fi?

Premium features, likeable smarts and decent picture and sound quality for a great price? That’ll be the Hisense.

Ortofon Quintet Blue MC review

Ortofon Quintet Blue review

By What Hi-Fi?

The Quintet Blue is modestly priced by moving coil cartridge standards, but it delivers an excellent all-round performance.

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What Hi-Fi? Awards 2021 winners revealed!

By Becky Roberts

The winners of the What Hi-Fi? Awards 2021 have now been revealed...

Astell & Kern's new A&norma SR25 MKII

Astell & Kern unveils successor to Award-winning A&norma SR25 hi-res music player

By Becky Scarrott

The SR25 MKII adds new features to an Award-winning recipe, including a balanced 4.4mm headphone jack and tweaks to its already eye-catching design.

Melco unveils its most affordable SSD music library, the N50-S38

Melco launches its most affordable SSD music library to date

By Becky Scarrott

The new Japanese-crafted N50 offers an SSD-based digital music library, plus dedicated USB connectivity.

OLED TV: Panasonic TX-55JZ1500B

Panasonic to halt in-house production of TVs

By Mary Stone

Panasonic is to cease in-house production of its TVs at its factory in the Czech Republic.

LG OLED55CX

LG CX and GX OLED TVs now support 4K@120Hz with Dolby Vision

By Tom Bailey

LG's top 2020 OLED TVs have now got even better at gaming thanks to a new firmware update – here's how to get it...

Rega Aethos

What Hi-Fi? Awards 2021: Rega and Cambridge Audio reinforce their supremacy in stereo amp category

By Ketan Bharadia

The British brands each win two Best Buys in the What Hi-Fi? Awards stereo amp category and are joined by Marantz and Naim.

Formula1.com

The F1 TV app is now available on Apple TV

By Mary Stone

F1 TV has launched a new app for Apple TV, allowing subscribers to live stream every 2021 F1 Grand Prix in Full HD.

Comcast has launched its first ever TVs

Comcast has launched its first ever TVs

By Tom Bailey

The XClass TV will be available in 43-inch and 50-inch sizes, and includes a 12-month subscription to Peacock Premium.

Denon AVR-S660 home cinema amp

Denon releases two affordable S-series AV Receivers with multiple HDMI 2.1 inputs

By Mary Stone

Denon has announced the AVR-S760H and AVR-S660H, each with three 8K HDMI inputs.

Music Unlimited subscribers can now stream music in spatial audio

Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can now stream music mixed in spatial audio

By Becky Scarrott

New music mixed in Sony’s 360 Reality Audio and Dolby Atmos is streaming now on Amazon Music Unlimited, from artists including Alicia Keys, Lil Nas X, and Remi Wolf.

Disney Plus

Disney+ is coming to Hisense and Toshiba TVs with the VIDAA smart platform

By Tom Bailey

A new firmware update will give Toshiba and Hisense TV owners the chance to stream Star Wars, The Simpsons and more...

Sonos IKEA VAPPEBY wireless Bluetooth speaker and lamp

New Sonos IKEA portable Bluetooth speaker 'Vappeby' leaks, looks like a lamp

By Mary Stone

An FCC filing has leaked images of the latest Sonos and IKEA collaboration, a waterproof Bluetooth speaker that doubles as a lamp and has a 'Spotify Tap' button.

Squid Game enforcers lined up

Squid Game still top as Netflix reprograms its rankings algorithm

By Dan Sung

Netflix will rank the popularity of its TV shows and films based on the total time watched rather than number of accounts.

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    What Hi-Fi? Awards 2021 winners revealed!
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    Denon releases two affordable S-series AV Receivers with multiple HDMI 2.1 inputs
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    The world's 12 best-value headphones have been named What Hi-Fi? Award winners
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    Denon 2021 AV receiver line-up: everything you need to know
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    Best wireless earbuds 2021: budget and premium

Latest Advice

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PS5 stock and where to buy: latest PS5 stock news

PS5 stock and where to buy: today's PS5 restock news and PS5 in-store sales

By Dan Sung

Some huge PS5 restocks are due to hit retailers in the UK, US and Australia this week – but you'll need to act fast. Here's the best stores to check for fresh PS5 stock today...

Denon AVC-A110

Denon 2021 AV receiver line-up: everything you need to know

By Mary Stone

We break down the details of the current Denon AVR line-up.

Google Pixel 6 smartphone

Google Pixel 6: price, release date, specs and all the news

By What Hi-Fi?

Google has finally announced full details of the new Pixel handsets – read on for all the key info including pricing, release date, features and camera specs.

Google Pixel 6 vs Pixel 5: what's the difference? Should you upgrade?

Google Pixel 6 vs Pixel 5: what's the difference? Should you upgrade?

By Esat Dedezade

Does the new Pixel 6 have enough in its locker to remove the previous model from your pocket?

Apple AirPods 3 wireless earbuds

AirPods 3 vs AirPods Pro: what's the difference? Which are better?

By What Hi-Fi?

Should you go for the new AirPods 3, or pricier AirPods Pro? Join us for a comparison of prices, specs, battery life and more.

Apple AirPods Pro 2: release date, price, design, leaks and all of the news

Apple AirPods Pro 2: release date, price, design, leaks and all of the news

By What Hi-Fi?

The AirPods Pro sequels are expected soon. Here's what we (think we) know about Apple's next noise-cancelling wireless earbuds...

Apple Music lossless

Apple Music lossless: which devices will (and won't) play lossless and Spatial Audio

By What Hi-Fi?

Apple Music is getting a big upgrade, but Apple's headphones will miss out on some of these new features.

AirPods 3: release date, price, design, battery life and all the news

AirPods 3: release date, price, design, battery life and all the news

By What Hi-Fi?

Apple's launched its new AirPods 3, complete with spatial audio support, a new design and longer battery life.

Apple HomePod 2: price, release date, features and latest news

Apple HomePod 2: price, release date, features and latest news

By What Hi-Fi?

Apple has discontinued the HomePod, so is a new HomePod 2 on the way? These are the features we'd like to see from Apple's next Siri-powered smart speaker...

Latest Features

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Sony

End-to-end AV makes Sony a cinematic choice

By What Hi-Fi?

Sony is the only brand to have a hand in the filmmaking process all the way from the lens to the living room – a decent reason to choose them for you home cinema products.

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17 of the best Dolby Atmos movie scenes to test your home cinema sound

By Mary Stone

We run down our favourite film scenes that need to be heard in Dolby Atmos.

Apple soundbar: price, release date, features and latest news

Apple soundbar: price, release date, features and latest news

By What Hi-Fi?

Could an Apple soundbar be on the way? We think so. Here's what we know from the rumours so far, and what features we'd like to see...

Listen to the What Hi-Fi? playlist 2021

Listen to the What Hi-Fi? playlist 2021

By Mary Stone

Every time a new issue of What Hi-Fi? is published, we update our playlist (on Deezer, Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal) with music we've been listening to in the last month. So please, join us.

Sonus Faber

Behind the scenes at Sonus Faber: homegrown hi-fi at its most artisanal

By Becky Roberts

We take an inside look at the high-end Italian speaker brand's uniquely domestic production in the Vicenza region.

The What Hi-Fi? Hall of Fame: the best tech products of the 2020s

By Joe Cox

The latest instalment of the What Hi-Fi? Hall of Fame features the most influential products since 2020...

Joker

The best Dolby Vision movies to test your TV

By Mary Stone

We run down our favourite films that need to be watched in Dolby Vision.

B&W 800 Series

Inside the Bowers & Wilkins factory to see the new 800 D4 speakers

By Joe Cox

We took a tour of B&W's factory in Worthing, England to see the latest 800 Series Diamond speakers being manufactured.

The tech endangered list: are these devices and formats the next to go?

The tech endangered list: are these devices and formats the next to go?

By What Hi-Fi?

What will be this generation's Betamax and 3D? We gaze into our crystal ball to find out.

Best Apple Music spatial audio tracks to try

11 of the best spatial audio tracks in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music

By Becky Scarrott

Try out what Apple Music's latest immersive tech can do by sampling these Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio tracks.

A Samsung 3D TV, now discontinued

13 heroic tech failures, from Betamax to HD DVD

By Simon Lucas, Becky Scarrott

As Awards time rumbles ever-closer, we take a look at some technologies of the past that looked for all the world like they might be contenders... right up until the moment they didn't.

Mitchells vs the Machines: the best movies on Netflix right now

15 of the best movies on Netflix right now

By What Hi-Fi?

From tense thrillers to zany comedies, here's are the best flicks on Netflix to test your TV and sound system.

Latest Best Buys

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Amazon

Best Alexa speakers 2021: the best Alexa-enabled smart speakers

By What Hi-Fi?

Best Buys Upgrade your life with the help of Alexa smart speakers and combine good sound and great features.

Best Buys
Best speakers 2021: budget to premium stereo speakers

Best speakers 2021: the best hi-fi speakers for every budget

By Joe Cox

Best Buys Our pick of the best speakers on the market to help you get the best sound from your system.

Best Buys
Best on-ear headphones 2021

Best on-ear headphones 2021

By What Hi-Fi?

best buys Our pick of the best on-ear headphones for features, style and sound quality, featuring AKG, Grado and more.

best buys
Sony WF-1000XM4 noise-cancelling earbuds in silver

Best noise-cancelling earbuds 2021: budget and premium

By Andy Madden, What Hi-Fi?

Best Buys Cut out the drone of daily life in compact style with our pick of the best noise-cancelling earbuds on the market.

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Best record players

Best record players 2021: our pick of the best turntables

By What Hi-Fi?

Best Buys Hear your vinyl at its best with our pick of the best turntables, from budget Bluetooth record decks to high-end audiophile options.

Best Buys
Tivoli Audio

Best DAB radios 2021: portable, Bluetooth, in-car

By Becky Scarrott

Best Buys Want to get a whole host of tunes for free, over the airwaves and hiss-free? A DAB radio is a brilliant option.

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Best internet radios 2021: modern radios with streaming smarts

Best internet radios 2021: modern radios with streaming smarts

By What Hi-Fi?

Best Buys With internet connectivity and free streaming to boot, the best internet radios are fit for the 21st century.

Best Buys
Best hi-fi systems 2021

Best hi-fi systems 2021: micro, vinyl and streaming music systems

By Joe Svetlik, Andy Madden

Best buys A hefty stack of hi-fi separates not practical? Then you should consider an all-in-one audio system instead.

Best buys
Best noise-cancelling headphones 2021: in-ear, on-ear, budget and premium

Best noise-cancelling headphones 2021: ANC headphones for all budgets

By Tom Parsons

Best Buys Leave the noisy world behind and immerse yourself in music with our pick of the best noise-cancelling headphones.

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JBL Charge 5

Best outdoor speakers 2021: portable, wireless, waterproof

By What Hi-Fi?

Best Buys Up your leisure game with a wireless outdoor speaker.

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Best portable MP3 players 2021

Best portable MP3 players 2021: from budget to hi-res music players

By What Hi-Fi?

Best buys You can listen to music on your phone of course, but if you want optimum sound quality, only a dedicated music player will do.

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Best Bluetooth speaker deals 2021

Best Bluetooth speakers 2021

By Becky Scarrott, Joe Cox

Best Buys We've gathered together the best Bluetooth speakers your money can buy, so you don't have to.

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