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It is a buying guide for consumer electronics, featuring news, reviews and features on hi-fi, home cinema, television and home audio. The website, whathifi.com , is updated daily, while the magazine is published thirteen times per year.
Hi-Fi News & Record Review is a British monthly magazine, published by AV Tech Media Ltd, [1] which reviews audiophile-oriented sound-reproduction and recording equipment, and includes information on new products and developments in audio. It is the oldest hi-fi title in the world, having been in publication since 1956.
The ARCAM Solo, introduced in 2005, was the first system to place hi-fi quality separates into a one-box enclosure no larger than a separate CD player. [7] This product also offered iPod integration via the rDock. This range was extended in 2007 to include a 5.1 AV variant, [8] and later a 2.1 version [9] and a smaller 'Mini' version. To ...
On 1 November 2021, Channel 5 will start to strip the UK's Strongest Man 2021 across its television schedules at 7pm each night. In 2009, Channel 5 signed a deal to broadcast highlights of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on terrestrial television in the UK. [350] In 2015, Channel 5 picked up highlights of every BAMMA event.
The term "hi-fi," an abbreviation for high fidelity, was coined during this era to describe audio systems that aimed to reproduce sound with high accuracy and minimal distortion. The vinyl LP became popular during the 1950s, and the availability of affordable components such as turntables, speakers and amplifiers enhanced the sonic realism of ...
The BBC eventually replaced them with moving coil based monitor speakers developed by several manufacturers, such as the highly successful LS3/5A, that were more easily transported and stored, and were more representative of typical contemporary hi-fi speakers. Quad launched ESL-63, successor to the original ESL, in 1981.
KEF was the first loudspeaker manufacturer to deploy such materials in Hi-Fi speakers. MAT is a maze-like structure where each of the intricate channels absorbs a specific frequency. Sitting behind the tweeter, it absorbs unwanted sound radiating from the rear of the driver, reducing distortion and preventing audio distraction.
Musical Fidelity was founded in 1982 by Antony Michaelson, a clarinettist and Hi-Fi enthusiast, following his exit from Michaelson & Austin, a predecessor company of which he was a partner. Musical Fidelity's first product was "The Preamp", which incorporated moving coil and moving magnet pre-amplification and a single line-level ‘Tuner’ input.