hi-fi+ Magazine      December 2025

  hi-fi+ is a magazine that is serious about hi-fi. Our articles are intended to help you get the best from your system, rather than simply telling you to buy another one. Our reviews only cover product that we think is worthwhile. You can read more about that by looking at our reviews policy, but lets just say that our attitude to equipment is rather different, and we hope, much more informative. We haven't forgotten that hi-fi is supposed to be fun!

The Sound Of A Milestone As hi-fi+ Achieves 250 Issues
The ever-evolving landscape of high-end home audio gear as we enter 2026.
Editorial By Alan Sircom
We made it! 250 issues of hi-fi+. And the stars aligned to make this celebratory issue our annual Awards... just in time for Christmas, too. It doesn't get much better. OK, so perhaps the free Rolls-Royce with a glove-box filled with Patek Philippe watches for every reader we were hoping to give away this issue might have been a little better, but only a little! Keen calculating types might point out that 250 monthly issues would put the first issue of hi-fi+ back in February 2005, and yet the magazine was launched back in 1999. So what happened? For the first ten years of the magazine, hi-fi+ was a true periodical. The magazine was a quarterly at first, then moved to a bi-monthly, and only became a monthly magazine in January 2013. From the outset, the magazine set a high standard. We maintain that audio is a luxury product and, if you are reading about it, then it's best to do so in something that looks and feels luxurious. Alongside the high design values, by-product of high-quality paper gave us the reputation of being 'the best smelling magazine in the audio business.' Sadly, some of the olfactory boons of the past have stayed in the past, as print stocks change over time, but we have tried as much as possible to keep the luxury touches.
---> The Sound Of A Milestone As hi-fi+ Achieves 250 Issues.

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Awards
18 The 2026 Awards
We looked at all the products we've tested in 2025, to pick the
very best of the best. Find out what the finest audio systems
will be sporting next year!

Equipment Reviews
200 Bowers & Wilkins 805 D4 Signature
Stand-Mount Loudspeaker

206 EMM Labs DA2i
Digital-To-Analog Converter 

212 DeVore Fidelity O/Bronze 
Large Stand-Mounted Loudspeaker

219 Marantz Model 10
Stereo Integrated Amplifier

225 Nordost QNET 7 Network Switch

Feature
10 Happy 250th!
Celebrating 250 Issues Of hi-fi+!

232 Issue 250 And Beyond...
We Look To The (Near) Future Of Audio. 

240 Meet Your Maker
We travel to the idyllic home of Trilogy Audio Systems
and ISOL-8 Teknologies.

Music
249 Music Reviews
Contemporary, Classical, Jazz, And Audiophile Music.

Competition
237 Win! Network Acoustics Origin
The Award-winning power supply worth £2,295 from the
network experts must be won!

Plus
238 Subscriptions
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255 Advertiser Index

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