Ketan Bharadia

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.