Acoustic energy ae300 mk2

Acoustic Energy? That’s a name we haven’t featured for a good while. It’s not that the company hasn’t been making capable products over the past few years, but rather that they seem to do it more quie

Q Acoustics has found something of a magic formula with its current 5000 series lineup. The Q Acoustics 5050 floorstanders (£1299) scooped a What Hi-Fi? Award last year for their seamless combination

Thoughts of Cambridge Audio’s original CXA81 bring a wistful smile to our face, as it won back-to-back What Hi-Fi? Awards for four years. In fact, we named it our Product of the Year in the stereo amp

When you think of ‘proper’ hi-fi, what do you see? If you’re anything like me, you’re imagining a stack of identically proportioned black boxes attached to some equally statuesque speakers. There have

As you move up out of the crowded budget-speaker arena into mid-priced standmounter territory – that is, from around the £500 mark upwards – the air becomes somewhat clearer and the landscape less den

Ask any enthusiast to describe their perfect pair of high-end floorstanding speakers and the chances are that excellent detail resolution, balanced tonality and strong dynamics would make everyone’s l