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View offers Wireless speaker | £499 | whf.cm/SonosFive In the beginning, there was the Sonos S5, which became the Sonos Play:5. Then came the Play:5 Gen 2; and now here is the Sonos Five. Could you tell one from another in a line-up? Almost certainly

View offers 4K projector | £1649 | whf.cm/HorizonPro Xgimi’s current range includes eight projectors, varying in price and form factor. They also vary in quality: while the Halo compact projector didn’t fare too well when it came to our review, its A

View offers 55in OLED TV | £2199 | whf.cm/55OLED907 It’s pretty tough to stand out from an increasingly talented crowd in the OLED TV world these days, but the Philips 55OLED907 manages it with aplomb. At first glance its £2199 price tag looks a litt

View offers Headphones | £349 | whf.cm/KEFMu7 KEF is one of a handful of traditional loudspeaker manufacturers who have tried to make inroads in the headphones market in recent years. It’s a tough assignment, and, to be honest, you would forgive the

View offers Smartphone | £1249 | whf.cm/GalaxyS23Ultra Here is another example of the iterative phone cycle we have found ourselves in recently. Not much has changed with the S23 Ultra from last year’s S22 Ultra, particularly when it comes to AV and

View offers Smartphone | £399 | whf.cm/Nothing1 Once upon a time, a rebellious company by the name of OnePlus sought to challenge the likes of Samsung, Apple and Sony to prove that you can get flagship performance without the flagship price tag. OneP

View offers In-ear headphones | £130 | whf.cm/LivePro2TWS Despite not dominating headlines like Apple and Sony, JBL is no stranger to the world of wireless headphones and has a number of options on its website spanning a wide range of prices. Its ove

Meet Danial Shimiaei, the director of engineering at high-end hi-fi brand Mark Levinson. Regular readers will be familiar with some of its products, such as the No.5105 turntable and impressive No.5909 headphones, the latter of which gained a five-st

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Sony’s WH1000-XM5 sit atop many of our best headphones lists, but we wouldn’t recommend them if you are on a budget. Thankfully, Sony’s latest pair of entry-level wireless headphones include the same Dual Noise Sensor technology and Integrated Proces

Your stereo amplifier is the beating heart of any hi-fi separates system, and which one you choose will have a huge impact on the sonic quality and character of your whole system. It’s vital, therefore, that you put as much love and care into choosin

View online review whf.cm/D3020V2 NAD ignored a number of rules when it released the D 3020, an update of the legendary ’70s NAD 3020 amplifier that was released to coincide with NAD’s 40th anniversary. If using Class D amplification wasn’t enough of

View online review whf.cm/io While Rega used to make a high-end DAC called ‘io’, the naming of this amplifier is almost certainly a nod to the familial link with its big brother, the excellent Rega Brio. It’s not far off half its price or half its pe

View online review whf.cm/Brio This sixth generation of Brio (the original launched in 1991), is now five years old and still going strong. For those familiar with its predecessors, this 2018 version will feel both familiar and completely new. It’s b

TOTAL PRICE £4461 We have loved all the iterations of Rega’s Elex amplifier over the years. This, though – the mark four – is the first of them to have a digital to analogue converter (and a headphone output). Which, of course, opens up rather more s

Those lucky people who are in the market for a multichannel amplifier at around the £6000 mark have some potentially tricky – or at least interesting – decisions to make. Our two favourites at this level are close siblings with just a few crucial dif

In the language of hi-fi, the name ‘headphone amplifier’ is more likely to raise a puzzled frown than a nod of recognition. And yet, a headphone amplifier simply does what it says on the can – it is an amplifier circuit that is specifically designed

We test every piece of hi-fi kit that comes our way with a huge variety of musical genres, from rock and pop to hip-hop and jazz, not forgetting a healthy dose of classical music. And no composer’s body of work gets as much of a workout as the great

View online review whf.cm/iFiZenV2 Offering a significant upgrade over computer sound quality in an era where people need it most, the Zen DAC V2 is another feather in the cap for iFi’s budget Zen series It uses the new-generation processing chip fou

View online review whf.cm/DragonFly_Black AudioQuest’s DragonFly Black (referred to on the back of the device as v1.5) is a more portable version of its predecessors – not in terms of its dimensions, which are exactly the same as the previous ones, b

View online review whf.cm/DragonflyCobalt Once upon a time, the only time we would have paid this kind of money for a USB stick was if we were being blackmailed. The AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt USB DAC enters the market at a premium price point for t

View online review whf.cm/DacMagic200M Here we have the DAC equivalent of an all-inclusive holiday that offers not only flights, meals and accommodation but also throws in room upgrades, free excursions and unlimited ice cream for the kids. Which sho

View online review whf.cm/iFiGoBlu This portable DAC/ headphone amp offers a Bluetooth 5.1 connection to your source device (although not to your headphones, those still need to be wired into the unit) thus eliminating one wire from the potentially b

View online review whf.cm/Mojo2 In 2015, the Chord Mojo burst onto the then-fledgling portable DAC/headphone amplifier scene as a real game changer. The palm-sized device justified its elongated name (‘Mobile Joy’), pushing the parameters of what was

Read more at… www.whathifi.com/features The basic building blocks are: a turntable, a phono stage, an analogue-to-digital converter with USB output, and a computer with suitable recording software. There are turntables that come with a phono stage, a

Read more at… www.whathifi.com/advice Amazon Prime Video will recommend content based on your viewing history - but what if you’re really into crime thrillers, your other half loves romantic comedies and the kids love cartoons? The answer is by linki

Read more at… www.whathifi.com/advice The price we list is for a cable from a reel. However, the chances are you’ll want it terminated - which means having a connection plug fitted - and that will add to the final cost. It does make set-up much easie