Simon Lucas

The Bose SoundLink Max is a robust Bluetooth speaker that creates punchy, assertive sound with a sturdy design to ensure your party goes off with a bang. It can attract marks, though.

The Sennheiser Accentum True Wireless want put the cat among the midrange big-brand pigeons, but there are more dynamic options for less money readily available.

The iFi Zen DAC 3 headphone amp is a digital-to-analogue converter that has secured a top spot in the mid-range DAC market.

The Three Plus is more than the sum of its parts

As long as you’re not expecting some sort of sonic armageddon, the iFi iDSD Diablo 2 has an awful lot going for it.

The VR500 by Final Audio are the wired earbuds that can elevate your listening experience without the significant outlay.

Grado originally released its Reference Series Hemp headphones as a limited edition – but obviously the lure of the Hemp was too great for people to resist…

Q Acoustics takes the proven concept of its excellent little M20 HD streaming system and makes it bigger. Not by much, mind you...

The Pro-Ject Debut continues its relentless journey up-market – but is still cracking value for money.

The Cambridge Audio Alva TT V2 continues the company's attempts to make vinyl and modern format, and it's a smash hit.

Further proof, in case it wasn’t blindingly obvious already, that money spent with Rega on a record player is money very well spent indeed.

The Lenco LS-410 is a better Bluetooth speaker than a record player.

Recalibrate your understanding of what ‘entry level’ means and there’s just so much to love about the A&norma SR35.

Bose’s second-generation QuietComfort Earbuds feature a bunch of clever tech with some very impressive results.

The Sony WF-1000XM4 swipe the title of the best true wireless earbuds you can buy today from their predecessors.

With the FT5, Fiio wants to democratise the esoteric (and generally quite pricey) planar magnetic driver technology to a real-world price-point.

Bose fancies a slice of the ‘premium but not too premium’ soundbar market - is the Smart Ultra Soundbar the product to secure it?

Sennheiser attempts to bring some of the extraordinary potency of its Ambeo spatial audio soundbars down to a slightly more "real-world" price-point.

The Fiio FT3 headphones are super-comfortable and super-rich sounding, even if you're not super-rich.

Unlikely as it may seem, the Audeze Euclid in-ear monitors deliver a sound that’s even bigger than the earbuds themselves

Sony's NW-A306 boasts hi-res audio playing capabilities in a compact design for an affordable price.