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Deezer

Our Verdict Its ambition is to be applauded, but Deezer falls between the two stools of Spotify and Tidal and struggles to justify itself over either For Vast catalogue and device support CD-quality HiFi tier Envelope-pushing 3D audio Against No hi-res streaming Spotify does discovery better Tidal does hi-fi better Deezer appears to be stuck… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Buds 2: release date, price, design, leaks and news

Home Advice (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung has some more true wireless earbuds in the works: the Galaxy Buds 2. The Samsung wireless earbuds range already includes the Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Buds+, Galaxy Buds Live and Galaxy Buds Pro, and they will soon be joined by the Galaxy Buds 2. As the name suggests, they should… Read more

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

Watch all the sessions from the What Hi-Fi? Virtual Show

Home News (Image credit: Future) The What Hi-Fi? Virtual Show took place on Saturday 24th April, featuring interviews, expert advice and a Live Q&A session with the What Hi-Fi? team. Thousands of you logged on to watch the videos and ask questions – and there’s still time to catch up on any videos you missed…. Read more

Google Pixel Buds A: release date, price, design leaks and news

There’s no shortage of wireless earbuds around at the moment, and Google is about to add another pair to the fray. Its next pair is said to be called the Google Pixel Buds A, and could launch very soon indeed. So what can we expect? Can they beat the likes of the Sony WF-1000XM3 and… Read more

Google Pixel Buds A: release date, price, design leaks and news

There’s no shortage of wireless earbuds around at the moment, and Google is about to add another pair to the fray. Its next pair is said to be called the Google Pixel Buds A, and could launch very soon indeed. So what can we expect? Can they beat the likes of the Sony WF-1000XM3 and… 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

16 of the best Rega products of all time: turntables, amps and phono stages

Home Features To call Rega a little bit dominant in the world of turntables would be rather an understatement. After all, of the 30+ turntable What Hi-Fi? Awards we’ve dished out over the last five years, Rega has scooped up around half of them, leaving its rivals to scrap over what’s left. The current Award-winning… 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

12 of the best Cambridge Audio products of all time

Home Features (Image credit: Cambridge) In the early 1960s, before it became known as ‘Silicon Fen’, the small university city of Cambridge, long a magnet for scientists and engineers, started to attract a new breed of technologically minded entrepreneurs. It was in this stimulating environment, with networks of like-minded people, that a group of young… 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

Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200M

Our Verdict Cambridge’s top-of-the-line DAC is a well-armed, high-performing all-rounder For Smooth, clean, insightful sound Generous connectivity Native MQA support Against No remote control Tough competition Cambridge Audio’s flagship DacMagic 200M is the DAC equivalent of an all-inclusive holiday that not only offers flights, meals and accommodation but also throws in room upgrades, free excursions… Read more

Tidal Connect comes to Cambridge Audio music streamers

Home News (Image credit: Future) Cambridge Audio has announced a firmware update to bring Tidal Connect support to its music streamer line-up. The update is already available for the Edge NQ, CXN (V2), 851N, CXN (V1) and StreamMagic 6 (V2), and will arrive for the CXR120 and CXR200 from 7th April. Given that the oldest… Read more

Welcome to What Hi-Fi?’s British Hi-Fi Week!

Home News (Image credit: Future) It’s time to dust-off your union jack, give any British hi-fi you own an extra workout and polish, and celebrate the best of British hi-fi with us. This week we’re saluting some of the most influential British brands, products and technologies to have appeared in What Hi-Fi?. We’re also speaking to… Read more

6 of the best British hi-fi innovations and technologies

Home Features (Image credit: Bowers & Wilkins) Cambridge Audio’s inaugural P40 integrated amplifier was the first-ever amp to use a toroidal transformer – a significant innovation in 1968. It’s still a standard component inside high-end amps today, irrefutable proof that what Gordon Edge, Peter Lee and a few other noted individuals tried out in their… Read more