Latest articles by Ketan Bharadia
dCS launches upgrade Mosaic streaming platform
High-end digital specialist dCS launches the Mosaic streaming platform for its network products.
High End Munich: Classé announces third-gen Delta products
Classé announces the third generation of Delta products at the Munich High End Show 2019.
Old speakers vs. new speakers: How do they compare?
Back in 1983, the Mission 70 MkIIs were budget class leading speakers, but how do they compare to the best new speakers?
PMC's Peter Thomas: the missing link between the BBC and Prince
Peter Thomas co-founded PMC in 1991. What Hi-Fi? caught up with him to find out about his hi-fi journey.
Tetsuya Itani: The history of Technics by the man who helped shape it
Interview On a recent trip to Japan, What Hi-Fi? met Tetsuya Itani, Technics’ CTO and chief engineer, to talk all things hi-fi.
The making of: Technics SL-1000R
Features Just 11 highly-skilled staff are responsible for the up to 150 parts that go into the high-end Technics SL-1200, SL-1000 and SP-10R turntables.
Eric Kingdon: The modest man responsible for Sony's best products
Interview Sony's Eric Kingdon tells us about his love of hi-fi and music, and his passion for vintage gear.
The 14 best speakers of the year scoop Awards - KEF, Dali, Monitor Audio and more
Awards It's Awards time again, and after a year's worth of testing we reveal the best value speakers on the market.
Dan D'Agostino's new power amp: Relentless by both name and nature
The amplifier is rated at an astonishing 6kW into a 2ohm load, so there’s unlikely to be a speaker in existence that it can’t drive properly.
Sonus Faber launches Sonetto speaker range at High End 2018
The Sonetto range is an expansive, eight-strong line-up that includes standmounters, floorstanders, centres and even a wall-mount speaker.
Steve Sells – the man behind Naim’s electronics
Interview We talk to the man behind Naim's electronics about everything from tape decks to Class D amps, designing the Naim Statement and what's on his home hi-fi system.
Naim Audio announces new premium music streamers
The new models are the result of four years of development and build on the streaming platform first seen in the company’s highly regarded Uniti series.
70 years since the transistor began to change the world
On December 27th 1947, AT&T's Bell Labs in New Jersey went public with its remarkable new technology...
That was then… Ruark Solstice review
We listen in to some classic Ruark floorstanders – 19 years after we first heard them...
Finkteam launches WM4 speakers at the Munich High-End Show
Finkteam has finally launched its WM4 floorstanders after showing the speakers in various states of development in recent years.
Burmester celebrates 40th anniversary by launching its first turntable
The Burmester 175 is a full record-playing package that includes arm, cartridge, power supply and phono stage. Impressively, Burmester makes every part.
The quest for perfection: inside dCS, a British hi-fi success story
Cambridge-based digital specialist dCS (Data Conversion Systems) is the rarest of breeds. It's one of just a handful of British companies that truly competes on the world stage in the rarified atmosphere of state-of-the-art, top-top-end hi-fi. The company turns 30 this year so what better time, we thought, to visit dCS to see what it does and how it does it?
The most important speaker company you've never heard of
Interview Fink Audio Consulting is one of the most influential and least well-known companies in the global loudspeaker market.
The best value music and video streamers revealed
Streaming technology has matured to deliver a combination of quality, stability and ease of use. Our 2016 Awards are a mix of the established and the new, with the Product Of The Year going to Cambridge Audio’s Azur 851N.
VPI turntable wins first Temptation Award for high-end kit
This is the first year we’ve given an Award to a high-end product featured in the Temptations pages of the magazine – the section that celebrates the more expensive, most aspirational kit that passes through our test rooms.
Chord Electronics dominates the best DACs of 2015
The digital-to-analogue converter market is booming at the moment and it[s time for us to reveal the best value DACs on the market. Chord Electronics dominates in 2015, taking three of the four gongs going...
Behind the scenes at Gamut HQ
We were so impressed by Gamut's £15k pre/power amplifier pairing that we added it to our reference system. So we thought it only right we found out a little bit more about the company.
Six of the best from the High End Show 2015
This year's Munich High End Show buzzed with the usual mix of the exotic and sensible where high-end hi-fi is concerned.
