''Hi-Fi News & Record Review'' is a British monthly magazine, published by AV Tech Media Ltd,
AV Tech Media Ltd
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An audiophile is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. An audiophile seeks to reproduce the sound of a piece of recorded music or a live musical performance, typically inside closed headphones, In-ear monitors, open ...
-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. ''Gramophone'', "the world's authority on classical music since 1923", might dispute this. Equipment reviews did begin later.
As well as hardware, there are also reviews of Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD (SACD) is an optical disc format for audio storage introduced in 1999. It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics and intended to be the successor to the Compact Disc (CD) format.
The SACD format allows multiple aud ...
titles, and more recently, FLAC
FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software p ...
downloads.
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Lifestyle magazines published in the United Kingdom
Music magazines published in the United Kingdom
Science and technology magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1956
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