What Hi-Fi?

What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision is the world's leading independent guide to buying and owning hi-fi and home cinema products. Our comprehensive tests help you buy the best equipment for your cash, with the magazine's advice sections giving you step-by-step information on how to get even more from your music and movies.

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Spendor Classic ⅘ • These Spendors are refined, insightful and wonderfully balanced – the ideal premium speakers for a small room

OnePlus 9 Pro • This premium, feature-packed smartphone won’t break the budget

Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200M • This is no trick – thanks to fine engineering and thoughtful featuring Cambridge has conjured up another winning formula

Amphion Argon1 • Amphion blends quality with practicality – and throws in an eye-catching design

Yamaha SR-B20A • Refreshingly, this entry-level soundbar doesn’t promise anything more than solid sound for your flatscreen TV

Electrocompaniet ECI 80D • The specialist Norwegian firm has supplied generous equipment levels and a sophisticated sound with this ‘entry-level’ integrated amp

Technics Ottava F SC-C70 MK2 • This distinctive-looking all-in-one system has been re-tuned and given a number of new features to match its premium price tag

Sonos Roam • They’ve been quite at home in the domestic arena for ages, but Sonos speakers haven’t wanted to step outside the house. Until now…

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CYRUS XR SERIES: A DECADE OF EVOLUTION AHEAD • Our Hi-Fi and Audio editor Becky Roberts sits down with Cyrus to talk about its all-new flagship hi-fi range

INSIDER TOP FIVE LAUNCHES • Five products to look out for this month

A summer’s sport: the screen green grass of home • Summer 2021 might just be the most sport-packed extravaganza of the past quarter-century or more. No better time, then, to invest in a new TV

Hisense Roku R50A7200GTUK

Philips 55OLED805

Sony KD-48A9

Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B

LG OLED65G1

Samsung QE65QN95A

Samsung UE43TU7100

OLED VS QLED: WHICH IS THE BETTER TV TECHNOLOGY? • OLED and QLED televisions are both capable of bright whites and near-perfect blacks, but which TV technology has the edge?

JVC DLA-N5 VS Sony VPL-VW590ES which 4K projector should you buy? • Two stunning native 4K projectors, but only one winner…

10 OF THE BEST FILM SCENES TO TEST PICTURE QUALITY • Viewed on a decent screen, some film sequences are a tasty treat for the eyes; others amount to a full-on visual banquet. This is all about the latter

Discover the latest in Hi-Fi and Home Cinema • On Saturday 24th April we sat down with the biggest consumer electronics brands to discuss their newest technologies, plus we put together invaluable buying advice sessions to help you get the best out of your home set up. You can still catch all the sessions on-demand by registering free on the website.

Leben CS600X

Wilson Benesch Precision P2.0

BUYER’S GUIDE • The definitive guide to the best home-entertainment kit you can buy

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AMPLIFIERS • THE BEATING HEART OF YOUR HI-FI SYSTEM

CD PLAYERS & TRANSPORTS • GET THE RIGHT PLAYER AND CD CAN STILL SHINE

DACs • A DIGITAL-TO-ANALOGUE CONVERTER IS A MODERN HI-FI MUST

How to digitize your vinyl collection • Turntables might not be cutting-edge tech, but for their look and feel – not to mention thrillingly articulate analogue sound – you can’t beat them. The only thing your record collection lacks is portability, but there is a way to take those LPs with you wherever you go…

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