Ketan Bharadia

3 days ago | whathifi.com | Harry Mckerrell |Ketan Bharadia

Your reaction to hearing that will.i.am had a hand (and ear) in helping to tune LG’s latest pair of affordable wireless earbuds might vary depending on your attitude to the former Black Eyed Peas stalwart. If your childhood was soundtracked by the likes of Boom Boom, Pow and Pump It, the prospect of such musical talents bleeding into your in-ear listening might fill you with gleeful anticipation. If hearing Where Is The Love?

1 week ago | whathifi.com | Ketan Bharadia |Andy Madden |Kashfia Kabir

It is hardly unusual to find a company being positive about its products on its own website. But when a well-established manufacturer like Canton uses words like ‘intricately built masterpiece’, ‘epochal sound quality’ and ‘perfect craftsmanship’ to describe its new top-end Reference series, even we start to take notice.

2 weeks ago | whathifi.com | Kashfia Kabir |Ketan Bharadia

Cyrus Audio’s 40 Series of products has been a rebirth for the brand. The 40-year-old British brand’s 40 ST streamer and 40 AMP integrated amplifier have impressed us hugely with their immensely capable and entertaining performance for the money, all while retaining core hallmarks of Cyrus’ identity with a fresh outlook on design, too. Can the Cyrus 40 CD player continue this run of success? You can already see from the star rating that it has, but, like its siblings, it’s not without some quirks.

2 weeks ago | whathifi.com | Ketan Bharadia |Andy Madden |Harry Mckerrell

Rega’s Brio has been one of our go-to affordable stereo amplifier recommendations for longer than we care to remember. The original was launched in 1991, and every generation since has been a frill-free analogue design, with priority given to good sound and a feature set that covered the basics. The new Rega Brio Mk7 version doesn’t deviate much from this well-established path, but acknowledges the changing times by adding digital inputs.