It’s been about three years since the vinyl bug hit me. Since then, I’ve undergone two turntable system evolutions (many of you will be pleased to know I have a proper separates vinyl system now), and bought a lot of vinyl records...

"An altar to sound" – Spotify's dedicated Listening Lounge in London features a spectacular sound system for "deeper, intentional listening sessions" for artists and fans

When Quad unveiled a reimagined version of its 1960s 33/303 pre/power amplifier duo in 2023, it proved so popular that an integrated version was highly requested. And so the Quad 3 stereo amplifier was born two years later.

On 8th March 1979, Philips revealed the very first Compact Disc (CD) and CD player prototype to the press at Eindhoven, Netherlands. The CD player prototype had an LED display and four buttons, and a top-loading mechanism. It was called the "Pinkeltje" and it set in motion one of the most seismic shifts in the history of the recorded music industry.

The best feature of Cambridge Audio’s latest wireless earbuds, the Melomania M100, isn’t the fact that they have active noise-cancellation for the first time, or that their long battery life beats most rivals, or even that they are powered by Class A/B amplification, the type we normally associate with hi-fi amplifiers. Those things are all true, incidentally, but the very best feature is a hidden one: it’s that one of the voices that announce the earbuds’ connection and the different noise modes is that of actor and comedian, Toast Of London himself, Matt Berry.

I’m speaking with Esge Andersen, an engineer from Apple’s acoustics team, who is here to give an insight into the processes behind designing the new Apple AirPods Pro 2 and developing its sound quality.

We’re no strangers to high-end hi-fi here at What Hi-Fi?, but even I said “how much?!” when confronted with a pair of speakers costing £80,000. American brand Wilson Audio’s loudspeakers are firmly in the ultra-high-end territory and have impressed us with five-star performers in the past...

What makes a good turntable? For Pro-Ject, it’s all about ensuring you have the best quality materials…

Spot the deck: we pick out the most interesting and enviable record players to grace the big (or small) screen.

We dig into the What Hi-Fi? archives to the hi-fi heydays of the 80s and 90s when blank cassette tapes were all the rage.