Season's Greetings

HF&MS is out Christmas Shopping!

We’re all out shopping for Christmas, but thank you to everyone for a great year.  To the manufacturers and audio noodlers, our PR colleagues, and fellow reviewers, in fact, to anyone who has bought a record or read a review. Thank you.

For a little Christmas reading, the latest reviews are here.  The Product of the Year is here, and the review of the year is here, which featured a look at “Affordable” British manufacturing from some of our best British brands, including Fell Audio, Rega, Melin Cables and Acoustic Energy, to name but a few.

.  A summary of our best products of 2025 is below. Do have a read and relax to some music, Christmas or otherwise.

The Best of 2025 were as follows;

Day 1 – Focal DIVA UTOPIA

Day 2 – REL T/9x SE Subwoofer Stereo Pair

Day 3 – Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II loudspeaker cable

Day 4 – Fell Audio integrated amplifier and CD Player

Day 5 – A&ultima SP3000M portable audio player

Day 6 – Merlin Cables, Tarantula loudspeaker cables

Day 7 – Avondale Audio NAP 250 Upgrade

Day 8 – Focal Bathys Mg luxury headphones

Day 9 – iFi Audio GO Blu Air portable DAC dongle

Day 10 – MoorAmps manaDAC DAC

All the best for 2026!