HELSINKI HIFI2025
Best picks from the HELSINKI HIFI2025.
TelluriumQ Iridium
This power amp delivers its 20 W in Class A.
Geneva World Radio
This modern receiver signifies a portable radio in several ways.
All Transistor Radios
Five mid-century portable transistor radios scrutinized.
Transistors ask for a dance
Behind portable audio pleasure lies strictly manufactured leisure and work.
The Fry Street Quartet – 3 CD
A great take on Haydn’s two string quartets.
Put Emojis On My Grave
AI inspired album of freely improvised, experimental electroacoustic music.
CAPTCHA, Tactility & Digital Resistance
New Multidisciplinary Art Project Challenges the Digital Status Quo.
Highend by the sea
Finland’s second most important highend event was held on 29 and 30 March in Helsinki.
CARY AUDIO SLI-100
Tung-Sol’s new power tetrodes are increasingly popular. Cary Audio’s SLI-100 is a great example of why.
Body and technology
Rebecca Horn’s retrospective offered multitudes of body/tech symbols.
25 years of widebands
PHY, Feastrex, Supravox, Voxativ. Baffles and horns.
Manley Jumbo Shrimp
A competent tube preamp compared to half a dozen others.
Stockholm HEM 2025
Stockholm’s HEM fair had more of everything, and good sound.
Blending music and sport
A jazzy tribute to the legendary Spurs footballer, Ledley King.
Robin Audio Domino
Robin Audio’s Domino loudspeaker has rare properties, and a promising sound.
Helsinki HIFI 2024
More room, more sonic successes.
Vibrant Latin Jazz
Neff Irizarry celebrates the legacy of Latin jazz guitar on his new album.
Venturo Hi-Fi
A design icon with a utopian sound system.
Restless fingers
Abstract artist Lars-Gunnar Nordström had one of the largest collections of jazz records in Scandinavia.
Søren Lee
Søren Lee’s tribute to his late wife gives hope to every listener.
The Most Beautiful Loudspeaker
True beauty prevails. Klangfilm Bionor.
Experiments in Concretism
The EMMA exhibition makes a bold attempt to enlighten the diversity of concrete art.
Munich Highend 2024
Omnis and dipoles.
Oskar Heil Kithara
Heil Kithara moves air quickly and efficiently where it matters.
Immersive sound, great music
With an ambitious catalogue, TRPTK presents itself as an audiophile Immersive label.
Poetic narratives of sound
Problematica is India Gailey’s third solo cello album.
