
Now that the lengthy Awards testing and announcing is done for another year, the path is clearer for us on What Hi-Fi? to reassess the state of play in some of our most popular categories. New products will upset the apple cart quite often – but plenty of older equipment still merits a place at the top table.
To that end, then, in this issue, we look at a couple of extremely competitive categories in hi-fi. First up, our budget stereo amplifier Group Test sees the new Rotel A8 take on established brilliance from Marantz, Cambridge Audio and Rega.