Best Products

We wave goodbye to Munich by picking the finest complete systems and everything else. With systems costing up to four million, this was a true swansong. Bring it on, Vienna!

• Alan Sircom
• May 2025

Always a wealth of the wild and the wonderful, there are so many loudspeakers to choose from at Munich High-End, you could list 100 and not even scratch the surface.

• Alan Sircom
• May 2025

Alan Sircom brings you a select round-up of some of the most interesting new amplifiers, solid-state and tube-based designs, from the halls, atria and rooms of Munich High-End and more.

• Alan Sircom
• May 2025

Everything is changing in digital audio as we move further toward embracing network streaming. But don’t count out CD and SACD just yet. We find the best digital in Munich!

• Alan Sircom
• May 2025

The last-ever Munich High-End show was a treasure trove of analogue goodies, with some of the most innovative new products seen in vinyl in decades. We pick the most exciting!

• Alan Sircom
• May 2025

We asked our team to pick the top five things they saw at the Munich High-End Show, 2024. This is what the first four reviewers said.

• hi-fi+ Staff
• May 2024

Arguably, the most important event in the UK audio calendar, the 35th Bristol Hi-Fi Show kicks off this weekend. We will be there… and so will all the best hi-fi!

• hi-fi+ Staff
• Feb 2024

Karan Acoustics has streamlined its range to a small, but extremely upscale line of amplifier products. But how does the new one-box PHONOb compare to the two-box PHONOa flagship equaliser?

• Alan Sircom
• Oct 2023

It might say ‘S3’ in the suffix, but this is Bowers & Wilkins's fifth version of its important two-way stand-mount loudspeaker from the brand’s ever-popular 700 Series. Simon Lucas investigates.

• Simon Lucas
• Sep 2023

We had a unique recent opportunity to discover the new Moon 791 and 761 in an exclusive first listen. After further listening, Alan Sircom completes his thoughts on the amps.

• Editor
• Jul 2023

Many associate MBL with its large 101 X-Treme loudspeakers, but it has more living room friendly designs too. Chris Frankland checks out the 126 omnidirectional stand-mounts from the German brand.

• Chris Frankland
• Jul 2023

The family brand Cardas Audio extends its Clear Beyond family to include extremely high-performance headphone cables made to fit the right sockets... if you remember which ones your headphones use!

• Alan Sircom
• Jul 2023