Hi-Fi Choice

Hi-Fi Choice is the essential guide to audio excellence in the home. It is a no-nonsense guide to the finest products available, from vinyl and valves, to multi-channel digital audio and high-fidelity video. Hi-Fi Choice sorts the best from the rest with rigorous test processes and a highly experienced team of reviewers.

Welcome • hifichoice.com Issue No. 545 October 2026

Mighty handsome • ‘Reinvented’ Brit compact speaker range

Companion piece • Chinese compact portable music player

Third generation • Italian streamer import

Top forty • Anniversary limited-edition music system

Superior sounds • Soon-come 40th anniversary speaker

Digital done right • Swiss network streaming import

Let’s get started • Tiny new portable radio and two starter turntables

Go with the flow • Debut Swedish speaker import

Movable feast • Affordable portable wireless speaker

Mighty singular • New mono power amps

Lunar toons • Pink Floyd cassette collaboration

Lip up fatty! • Rolling Stones earbuds tie-in

Note perfect • IEM imports from Singapore

Chic connector • Sophisticated Japanese cable

Putting the Luxe into luxury • Stylist new UK speaker

Flying colours • Expansive new colour range for high-end speakers

High five! • Brand new DAP

Back to the Seventies • New integrated amp and CD player

Space is the place • Cosmic IEMs from China

Stack in black • American space-saving import

Max power • This portable DAC packs a real punch, especially for owners of 4.4mm headphones. Cliff Joseph is impressed

Size matters • Nick Tate auditions the latest in a long line of Monitor Audio diminutive loudspeakers, the Radius 3 4G

Match maker • A handy adapter that allows you to add Wi-Fi and multiroom streaming to existing speakers. Cliff Joseph buys in

Having a ball • Can a small orb with a handle deliver the sound quality Devialet is famed for? Oh yes! David Vivian is blown away

Mono culture • For monophonic audiophiles Vertere has produced a new MC cart. Neville Roberts digs out some records from his youth

Big time! • HFC’s very own Clark Kent, Nick Tate, dons his cape as he auditions Michi’s latest mid-price powerhouse ‘super integrated’

Giant killer • An updated version of one of Neat’s most singularly small speakers is here. Ed Selley plays hide and seek with it

Star quality • The ASTRU sets out to bring multi driver refinement to a single driver in-ear design. Ed Selley puts on his driving gloves

Cat that got the stream • Evolved from the original TacT Millennium digital amp, Lyngdorf’s latest incorporates a streaming platform and options galore

Chord Company • Clearway USB-C cable

Atlas Cables • Hyper RCA R1 interconnect

Peak practice • The mid-tier floorstander in JBL’s flagship speaker range features a trio of custom drive units and aims higher than most

Missed an issue? • Have you missed a copy of your favourite hi-fi magazine? You can now order Hi-Fi Choice back issues online

Ahead of its time… • The last few years have been very innovative for two-channel, but not always that successful for the innovator as Ed Selley explains

Fanning the flames • With yet another initiative expanding to encourage more vinyl record sales, Steve Sutherland tries to decide what he thinks of Dinked

One step beyond! • After stumbling across a record label that specialises in audiophile reissues, Neville Roberts turns private eye and does some investigating

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