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Cambridge Audio’s Evo system: “I can accept ‘lifestyle’, but this is a proper hi-fi product”

Home Features (Image credit: Cambridge Audio) As much as we love it, hi-fi isn’t traditionally synonymous with convenience – those stacks of components and tangles of cables, the rigamarole around turntable assembly, the nuisance caused by being repeatedly bitten by the hi-fi upgrade bug. Aiming to bring the two closer is a new era of… Read more

Cambridge Audio challenges Naim with stylish Evo streaming systems

Home News (Image credit: Cambridge Audio) Cambridge Audio has just unleashed two beautiful beasts into the just-add-speakers streaming system market. The Evo 75 and Evo 150 are the first of their kind from the British brand, and oh boy don’t they look lovely? Hopefully they sound just as lovely too – not least as they’re… Read more

10 of the best Arcam products of all time

Home Features (Image credit: Future) There must be something in the water in Cambridge, England. Not only did Cambridge Audio emerge from the university city, but so too did another bastion of British hi-fi. Amplification Recording and Cambridge (as it was known originally) was founded back in 1976, the brainchild of John Dawson and Chris… Read more

11 of the best British stereo amplifiers of all time

Home Features The brains and brawn behind your hi-fi. Underestimate the stereo amplifier’s importance in how your system sounds at your peril. This list of the best stereo amplifiers from the pages of What Hi-Fi? showcases the power providers that have helped to get the most out of our set-ups over the years. Big or… Read more

DTS Play-Fi: what is it? What speakers and devices support it?

Home Advice (Image credit: DTS) What’s the first thing you think of when someone says the word ‘multi-room’? For most, we imagine it’s a dedicated set-up from a single manufacturer such as Sonos or Bluesound, with its connected ecosystem of speakers, soundbars, soundbases and hi-fi components. Or perhaps you’d think of AirPlay 2, a gateway… Read more

Review: Bowers and Wilkins 603 S2 Anniversary Edition

Ask any hi-fi enthusiast which speaker brand appeals to the imagination and chances are that the name Bowers & Wilkins will be mentioned. Until 2015, the reproducers of this manufacturer were notable for the use of a yellow Kevlar woven mid-toner. The latter has since made way for the less prominent gray-colored Continuum display. But… Read more

Review: Arcam Solo Uno small amplifier with punch

Arcam’s name was’ Solo ‘always for all-rounders who combined a slim shape with a lot of functionality, such as a Blu-ray player. The more competitively priced Solo Uno does it differently. Done with disc turners, this Arcam amp is smaller than ever and fully committed to streaming. The Arcam Solo Uno really seems to disappear… Read more

Review: Monitor Audio Bronze 500 (sixth generation)

With the sixth generation of the affordable Bronze family is the last major renewal operation of Monitor Audio (almost) complete. The Gold and Silver updates brought significant technical and visual improvements to the table, but is all of that possible at a much lower price point? To investigate, in this review we look at the… Read more