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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Jonathan Evans

Bylines and star ratings: how things have changed in What Hi-Fi? reviews over the decades

January 1984 cover of What Hi-Fi? alongside April 2025.

You don’t need to have been particularly sharp of eye to have noticed a significant change at the top of new reviews on whathifi.com. We have had a bit of a shake up on the byline front.

For many years, What Hi-Fi? has not had bylines on its reviews. Or rather, the byline simply said “What Hi-Fi?”. This was partly because our reviewing process is such that at least two, very often more, people are involved in the testing of each piece of equipment that passes through our test rooms.

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