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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Ioan Hazell

I have just started reviewing speakers for a living – here are three surprising lessons I’ve learned

Fyne F501E, Dali Sonik 5, Dali Oberon 5 in test room.

Reviewing tech is a funny business: not quite as subjective as critiquing music or art and certainly not as confined to cold, hard facts as investigative reporting. Technology reviews walk a constant tightrope between stats, specs and subjectivity.

Just three months into my new role as a staff writer here at What Hi-Fi?, that tightrope has been where I’ve spent most of my time, cutting my teeth, veering this way and that, and learning an awful lot with each pair of speakers I test in our dedicated listening rooms. Luckily, the experienced staff at What Hi-Fi? are always on-hand to make sure that the final verdict is the right one.

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