Micro magic

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 you play records, no other electronic component in your system has as much impact on the sound as the humble phono stage. There aren’t many talented units around the £500 mark, so when we come acro

What Hi-Fi? is no stranger to Cyrus Audio’s phono stages. We have been using the company’s terrific Phono Signature in our reference system for almost a decade, thanks to its excellent sound quality a

Christmas is coming, and Stuff ’ s playing Santa again: our 2025 Gift Guide is packed with techy kit that’ll light up faces faster than fairylights on a frosty night. Which is not to say you can’t keep the best things for yourself, of course…

Pathos’s Inpol Remix MkII is an easy amplifier to underestimate. It’s about the size of a child’s shoebox and has a modest claimed power output of just 25W per channel into 8 ohms. That’s the kind of

Aphono stage such as this Graham Slee offering amplifies the output of a typical moving-magnet cartridge (around 4-5mV, 1kHz/5cm/s) by more than 100 times. A typical moving-coil signal (0.3-0.5mV, 1kH