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1 week ago | 
whathifi.com | Ketan Bharadia |Kashfia Kabir
The Lindemann Limetree Bridge II is a network bridge, sometimes referred to as a streaming transport. It plays music files from streaming services, any attached storage on your home network or connected directly into its USB socket and Bluetooth sources. Just add a quality DAC and off you go. The vast majority of music streamers on the market include a DAC, of course, but the Limetree Bridge II’s lack of such a circuit may not be the issue it initially appears to be.
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1 week ago | 
whathifi.com | Ketan Bharadia |Kashfia Kabir |Harry Mckerrell
Traditionally, there has usually been an inverse relationship between performance and features in separates hi-fi. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the humble turntable. Look at all the best-sounding options below the £1000 / $1350 / AU$2100 mark, for example, and you’ll invariably find them to be fully manual decks.
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1 week ago | 
whathifi.com | Andy Madden |Ketan Bharadia
Sony’s ULT range of bass-loving Bluetooth speakers and headphones has already served up a bit of a mixed bag here at What Hi-Fi? Towers. We were left disappointed by its ULT Wear headphones and ended up giving them a distinctly average three-star rating. Sony’s entry level speaker, on the other hand, the ULT Field 1, walked away with its head held high and a much more respectable four-star verdict.
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2 weeks ago | 
whathifi.com | Kashfia Kabir |Ketan Bharadia
WiiM’s first streaming amplifier – the WiiM Amp – made quite a stir, delivering amplification, DAC and wireless streaming features in a compact box that cost considerably less than anything else offered on the hi-fi market. Its feature-packed, well-built and user-friendly design for such a budget price had plenty of appeal, but we found it lacking in the sound quality department.
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3 weeks ago | 
whathifi.com | Harry Mckerrell |Ketan Bharadia
So much has changed in the world since the last Beosound A1 (2nd Gen) hit the shelves in 2020. The stylish Bluetooth speaker was a big hit with the What Hi-Fi? team, scooping up a five-star review and earning admiring 'oohs' and 'ahhs'from our testers for its entertaining sound and beautiful build. We didn’t expect that it would take five whole years for the third-generation model to arrive.
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4 weeks ago | 
whathifi.com | Kashfia Kabir |Ketan Bharadia
Neat Acoustics has always done things a little differently – a little quirkily, but with heaps of fun. Just take a look at the odd-looking Iota Alpha floorstanders, and the original Neat Iota speakers, which are incredibly tiny but are also, like many of the brand’s various speakers, endlessly entertaining. We’ve been fond of those tiny Iota speakers since we first reviewed them back in 2012; over a decade later, the brand has brought out a sequel.
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1 month ago | 
whathifi.com | Ketan Bharadia |Andy Madden
Fyne Audio’s ‘Special Production’ models have been a huge success for the Scottish speaker specialist. The idea behind them is simple yet so alluring. Take a well-performing standard product, in this case the excellent F701 standmounter, keep the basic cabinet but let the engineers loose on everything else with a view to maximising performance and improving cosmetics.
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1 month ago | 
whathifi.com | Harry Mckerrell |Ketan Bharadia
If you’re not familiar with Revival Audio, allow us to give you a very short history lesson. The young brand was founded in 2021, bringing together the combined talents of Daniel Emonts, former engineer for the likes of Dynaudio and Focal, and Jacky Lee, Dynaudio’s former CCO until his departure in around 2020.
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1 month ago | 
whathifi.com | Harry Mckerrell |Ketan Bharadia
When the Røde NTH-100 burst onto the wired headphones scene back in 2022 and ended up scooping a five-star review and multiple What Hi-Fi? Awards, it was a little like Wimbledon being won unexpectedly by the unseeded wildcard. Few people quite saw it coming, establishing the NTH-100 as one of our most trusted pairs of recommendable budget wired cans and leaving us keen to see what the Australian microphone company’s sophomore effort would look like when it arrived.
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1 month ago | 
whathifi.com | Andy Madden |Ketan Bharadia
In the world of premium wireless headphones, Sony has established itself as the brand for whom the hype machine seems to kick into overdrive every time there’s a rumbling of a new pair coming to market. And it’s not hard to see why. Sony’s track record in the field over recent years is second to none, with multiple five-star pairs setting new benchmarks for rival brands to try and beat. Sony’s current wireless offerings are arguably its best ever, and that includes its budget options too.
