Monitor Audio’s Bronze speakers – especially their ‘2’ moniker standmounts – were our go-to recommendation for budget speakers for many years. The five-star Bronze BX2 (from 2010) and the Bronze 2 (fr

It is easy to underestimate a speaker like Fyne Audio’s Vintage Classic X. They look like they have been time-warped from the 1970s, with a huge, wider-than-deep walnut-covered cabinet and lovely adju

Fyne Audio is enjoying, to borrow some classic football parlance, an enviable purple patch at the moment. From top to bottom, the Scotland-based hi-fi brand is producing some exceptional loudspeakers,

Beyerdynamic’s wired headphone pedigree is impressive. In fact, to some, the 100-year-old German brand is synonymous with wired performance, a reputation it has earned thanks to mighty chart-toppers s

You would be forgiven for thinking, looking at the products on this page, that we have taken one of our occasional nostalgic steps back in time. There is a very definite old-school look to this terrif

If my diary is clear of meetings or calls, I’ll reach for wired open-backed headphones and lose myself in music. When things get busier, though, these on-ear wireless headphones have really impressed