Sydney's premier hi-fi and video show is brought to you by Australian Hi-Fi, What Hi-Fi? and Sound+Image magazines, with dates now confirmed for the 2025 Show: Friday April 4th, Saturday 5th April, and Sunday 6th April 2025.
ADVANCE TICKETS now available: for best prices: BUY TICKETS HERE
VENUE: The Show is in the same place: the Sydney Central Hotel managed by Ascott – a 4.5-star boutique Sydney hotel in Thomas St, Haymarket, a short walk from Central Station in an easily accessible CBD location right in the heart of the city.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS: This page will grow to showcase everything that's coming to the 2025 Show next April – the latest and greatest in hi-fi and AV, giving visitors the opportunity to see and hear a range of products from all around the world, the world's most renowned hi-fi and AV brands including high-end audio, TVs, projectors, headphones, home theatre systems, amplifiers, streamers, wireless and Bluetooth speakers and everything in between!
Check back to the Show's dedicated webpage for all the latest information and news... or follow us on Facebook and Instagram!
PRIZES: Stay tuned for details of prizes that can be won at the Show, using the competition card you'll receive on arrival! Prizes include Onkyo's brilliant new TX-8470 Hi-Fi Network Stereo Receiver (below), valued at $1799!
Confirmed 2025 Show Rooms...
GROUND FLOOR
SYNERGY AUDIO-VISUAL
Ground Floor: Elizabeth Bay Room
Last year's winner for Best Sound of the Show is back in the Elizabeth Bay Room bringing the best of their brands, which include McIntosh, Sonus faber, Rega, Aurender, Sugden Audio, Chord Cables, and Quadraspire. Unmissable!
NAIM & FOCAL
Ground Floor: Watson's Bay Room
Westan Australia and Melbourne's Premium Sound store will be bringing the incredible Focal Diva Utopia speakers to the Australian Hi-Fi Show – floorstanders which combine the wisdoms and technologies of both Naim and Focal together in a pair of wireless connected active loudspeakers
The Focal Divas have inputs including HDMI eARC, optical USB, and RCA analogue, and they use the latest UWB technology to achieve a wireless lossless 96kHz/24-bit resolution wireless connection between the two loudspeakers (or 192kHz/24bits with a supplied cable link).
Naim's Pulse Platform for active systems links this full connectivity with impressive power upgradeability capacity, easy to control with the dedicated app, remote control, or Google/Apple voice assistants.
Elegant and modern, the Focal Divas represent the future of high-end sound – beautiful, and yet simple. Don't miss this room at the Show!
YAMAHA MUSIC
Ground floor: Lavender Bay Room
Completing what will be an utterly unmissable floor at the Australian Hi-Fi Show 2025 is Yamaha, which will come armed with its latest loudspeakers – the NS-2000A, NS-800A and NS-600A – driven by the range's matching R-N2000A and R-N1000A streaming amplifiers. Considering the popularity and acclaim of the Japanese brand's recent foray into high-end headphones (YH-5000SE) and headphone amplifier (HA-L7A), we would be surprised if it didn't bring them, or something of their ilk, along for the ride too.
LEVEL 1
MARCH AUDIO
Level 1, Farm Cove Room
Western Australia's March Audio has been in the top 3 Best Sounding Rooms two years in a row – despite its system being a fraction of the price of some other systems. They will be back for 2025 with their latest speakers, amplifiers and cables, all proudly hand-built in Albany, WA, delivering “superb technical performance and sound at modest prices”. And for 2025 they're moving up to one of the big ballrooms on ticketing level 1, so we can hear what March can do in an even larger space!
MAXMEDIA with Avantgarde Acoustics & Leica
Level 1, Port Jackson Room
Maxmedia and Leica will again be showcasing some of the best hi-fi and video projection systems on the planet.
The Avantegarde Colibri will make its Australian debut at Australian Hi-Fi Show 2025 in the Port Jackson Room. The Colibri C2 brings a new compact form with multiple mounting options, which nevertheless combines Avantgarde’s proven sound quality with extreme efficiency and an incredible maximum level (117dB). The C2's spherical horn extends to 700Hz, yet its diaphragm is small and light enough (just 2.2g!) to produce crystal clear frequencies up to 19,000Hz. Meanwhile the dual-configured bass driver allows the Colibri C2 to achieve outstanding dynamics and speed, vastly superior to any conventional high-end speaker. This is the low-loss, low-distortion dream made real – don't miss hearing them!
Other notables include Leica's Cine 1 Cinema TV, the ultimate in ultra-short-throw projection console design delivering big-screen TV-style projection with built-in sound,
Plus Fezz Audio, Innuos, Piega – and many more, all gathered on the ticketing level of the Show: make it your first stop!
WAVETRAIN CINEMAS with BenQ
Level 1, Bennelong Point Room
After 2024's incredible demonstration of home cinema image and sound quality, Wavetrain is returning to one of the big rooms on the entry ticketing level, promising to up the stakes still more of the very latest developments in Elementi digital active speakers, plus BenQ projection. Whether you're a hi-fi or an AV fan, we're confident that the sound in this demonstration will blow you away!
BEYERDYNAMIC HEADPHONES Synchronised Technology
Level 1, concourse east side
beyerdynamic’s Australian distributor Synchronised Technology will be at the Show loaded with fine headphones from the German brand's diverse, budget-spanning catalogue. Hear the sounds and discover the reason that professionals choose beydynamic for Broadcast, Film and Stage applications, and how those technologies transfer into stunning consumer headphones for home and away.
LEVEL 9
SECRET CHORD ANALOGUE
Level 9, Room 1
"As our name suggests, we’re about analogue sound," says Secret Chord Analogue, returning to the Show after delivering one of the busiest rooms at the 2024 show, featuring not only "the world’s finest vinyl record cleaning method", Record Restore, but also tube amps by Elekit of Japan and Red Roo of Australia: power amps, preamps and phono stages, along with the open-baffle single-driver Confluence loudspeaker system.
Stay tuned for news of what they're bringing to the 2025 Show!
AUDIO MARKETING / LEN WALLIS AUDIO
Level 9: Room 2
Following a fabulous performance from Musical Fidelity and Revival Audio at the 2024 show (pictured), you can expect another perfectly-matched and tuned system from the teams at Len Wallis Audio and Audio Marketing, whose brands include Triangle, Stax, Revival Audio, Inakustic, Holbo, and Musical FIdelity.
MICROPHASE AUDIO DESIGN
Level 9: Room 3
"Crafted in Australia with French flair, our core design forte is in small speakers crafted to sound incredibly good on their own and have a reputation to have one of the best midrange in the World. They reproduce instruments timbres with accuracy and speed, thanks to their very inert marine grade birch plywood cabinet and bespoke drivers mostly sourced from famous French manufacturer Audax.
It was case proven at the 2024 Show with the latest Tower 4 design, so what M.A.D. wonders will arrive in 2025? More news as it comes..
MASIMO CONSUMER AUSTRALIA
Level 9, Rooms 4, 5 & 6
With the promise of exciting new and current favourite products on demonstration from Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, Pol, Classé and AudioQuest cables – no wonder Masimo is taking three rooms on the ninth floor to demonstrate its significant hi-fi and AV wonders!
Always bringing something special to the Show, Masimo's team delivers not only top-sounding rooms, but also their enthusiasm, expertise and depth of knowledge that allow showgoers to get all their hi-fi questions answered, while soaking in stunning tunes.
Full details on each Masimo room will follow!
AUDIO MAGIC & KRISPY AUDIO
Level 9, Room 8
At the last Sydney show, Audio Magic and Krispy Audio delivered one of our very favourite-sounding rooms (shown above) with the cunningly chamfered Kudos Audio Titan 808 speakers effortlessly rolling out the tunes under the command of Copland’s CTA407 integrated tube amplifier, almost invisible in black at the top of one rack, while a VPI Scout turntable topped the other, above the very new Manley Oasis phono stage from California, which replaces the highly regarded Chinook. Digital tunes came from the versatile Lumin P1 streamer, DAC and pre-amplifier. Glorious. What wonders will they bring in 2025? Watch this space!
HEY NOW HI-FI / NIRVANA SOUND
Level 9, Room 9
Brands: Fischer & Fischer loudspeakers, Aspire Audio Racks, Ypsilon amplifiers and much more...
RICHTER
Level 9, Room 11
The legendary Australian speaker marque brings its latest and greatest to the Corridor of Sound on the ninth floor......
SERHAN SWIFT
Level 9, Room 12
The Australian speaker gurus always deliver one of the Show's best sounds, and we await word of their plans for 2025 will breaths bated! Pictured are the mµ3F floorstanders demonstrated last year alongside the award-winning mµ2 MkII standmount and DEQX’s Gen4 LS200 processor. Don't miss this room!
MAGENTA AUDIO Level 9, Room 20 Dutch & Dutch's groundbreaking 8c active speakers, which we called "phenomenally good" in our Australian Hi-Fi magazine review, are just one example of the many jewels in Magenta Audio's crown. The distributor is no stranger to discerning high-end hi-fi, with the likes of Lindemann, Halcro, PS Audio, Engstrom Sound and Moonriver Audio under its umbrella, plus US manufacturer Bricasti, who it took on earlier this year.
YAMAHA MUSIC AUSTRALIA
Level 9, Room 21
We're delighted that Yamaha will be taking an addition room of the 2025 Show specifically to highlight its headphone prowess. We assume this will involve the award-winning YH-5000SE headphones and the HA-L7A flagship headphone amplifier, but there's only one way to find out – head to Room 921 to find out!
SPECTRAFLORA AUSTRALIA
Level 9, Room 24
SpectraFlora's loudspeakers are handcrafted in Victoria, Australia using sustainably sourced Australian timber, and precision design using technologies that promise a uniquely open and transparent sound.
The lastest design, Celata 88 by SpectraFlora, has cabinets of hoop pine plywood, a native Australian species sustainably grown in Queensland plantations, while the horns – which combine the powerful dynamics of a horn with the even horizontal dispersion and transparency of a waveguide – are available in either hoop pine plywood or solid timber which is plantation-grown or salvaged, such as plantation-grown Northern Silky Oak, Southern Silky Oak salvaged from Melbourne's eastern suburbs, and red ironbark salvaged from a former RAAF base in Dubbo.
Using a crossover design perfected through 11 months of measurements, modelling and listening tests, and twin horizontally-opposed slot-loaded subwoofers in the cabinet base, these are new speakers not to be missed.
Put them on your tour of Australia's best, at the Sydney show!
PLENTY MORE TO COME
Come back soon to check the latest room additions for the 2025 Show!
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