hi-fi+ Issue 238 – December – 2025 Awards Special

COMMENT

• Incoming! Your views on all things audio

AWARDS

• The 2025 Awards We look at all the products we’ve tested in 2024, to pick the very best of the best. Find out what the finest audio systems will be sporting next year!

Equipment Reviews

• Accustic Arts TUBE PREAMP V/AMP IV pre/power amplifier
• PMC Active twenty5.22i stand-mount loudspeaker
• Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G stand-mount loudspeaker
• DS Audio DS-E3 optical cartridge and equaliser
• Chord Company PowerHAUS P6 mains distribution board
• Merason Reuss Digital to analogue converter
• DALI Rubikore 2 stand-mount loudspeaker

FEATURE

• Meet Your Dealer We return to Soundstage Hi-Fi in Cockfosters, North London, to see what’s changed and what Michelin stars and mojitos have to do with it!

MUSIC

• Thompson Twins Into The Gap, the newly reissued, fourth and most successful album from 80s pop trio Thompson Twins turns 40 this year
• Music Reviews Contemporary, classical, jazz and audiophile music

COMPETITION

• Win! Meze Audio Liric II The second generation of Meze Audio’s superb closed-back planar magnetic headphones worth £1,850/$2,000/€2,000 must be won!

PLUS

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