Merry Riff-Mas Everybody - Hi-Fi Riff's Favourite Products of 2023! 

Isn’t it great that two mates can chat shit for ages and have all their mates listen in. The internet is awful in many ways but this is mint 🎵👊🏻

Thanks for all your comments, gents. I have just cleared the kitchen table to put an SME Series V on to my Technics SP-15, and then fit a rebuilt Supex SD900V! Been putting it off for a year, but got no excuse today! Have a great Christmas. Cheers, David

Another great Riff...cheers. For 2024 please don’t foresake the mighty CD format in favour of other trends. As you say, it can still sound magnificent and over 40 odd years many of us have built up some substantial collections we don’t intend to ditch.

Thanks for some great moments guys. Wishing you both all the very best and hopefully lots more to come in 2024. 🍻

Brilliant stuff guys as always, looking forward to next year's riffs. Informative and most importantly, entertaining.

Many thanks for a great year of entertaining hifi and music chat and reviews reviews. Based in part on your review I listened and bought the CXN V2 which has been a lovely addition to my system and has lifted the quality of streaming on my system considerably. Great fun. Happy new year and all the best for 2024.

Thanks for this years Riff's and wish you guys a happy new year!

Merry Christmas guys love your take on anything hi fi ,great stuff

Jez that stylus timer was a brilliant present - send it to me and liberate it from ‘the grinch’ sitting next to you on the couch Mike! Anyways sending best wishes for Xmas and the New Year- from Sydney Australia- keep the production values low and the content and entertainment values high - a winning formula. Love the channel here’s to 2024

clothing that blends into the couch. Merry Christmas.

Loved all this years Riffs, thank you! Happy hollidays to you both..

OMG- I had that record too!! brilliant. Ha ha ha

Merry Christmas Mike & David!

Cheers from Cape Breton on the Cabot Trail!

Good luck to you, guys, and keep it on! ALL THE BEST!

Great video guys so I want to tell you something. My product of the year is the A1..This little amp is stupidly good. I remember earlier this year an American high end reviewer asking his subscribers with $100K system and up to exchange their amps for this one in a blind listening test and see if it could sit in their system.. No one said no and every single one of them were so impressed they all bought one. So I bought one just to see if it was that good and it is. So much so I've written to Musical Fidelity to bring out the class A mono's again because two is always better than one.. The A1 is no hotter than a valve amp, in fact it's cooler to run in a room. I've tried it with my Alsyvox's and heard it with the large Westminster's. Honestly this little amp is a star.. Must send pics esp with the Alysavox speakers.. This little amp has no right to sound this good 🙂

Thanks for another enjoyable year's Rifting, and best wishes for a successful 2024.

Brilliant really funny especially the presents

The moment I saw Birra Moretti, I knew you guys know what's good! 😁 Happy holidays and keep up the good work! 👍

Greetings from an ex-pat in Germany. Thanks for the entertainment, best wishes for you and yours!

Enjoyed your videos, thank you and seasons greetings 😊

Merry Christmas and the best for 2024 to you! Nice to hear reciews of older stuff in the light of HiF today. I came to your channel about two years ago because of the mainly vintage HiFi reviews, now I am not sure any more, if I not more come for listening to your conversations : ) BR, Joe from Austria

Merry Christmas!! 🎉🎉

Seasons greetings Mike and David.

BTW, I bought the Falcon Gold Badge on your recommendation and LOVE them.

Nice one, Happy Christmas to you too.

PS Happy New Year guys 🙂

Now listen chaps, talking of Christmas presents I have managed to give myself a pair of Yamaha NS1000M for Christmas. David repeatedly referred to them as a reference in his old HiFi World days and so I bought a pair donkeys years ago. Wonderful. Too heavy to ship, I had to sell them when I moved from London to the other side of the world. After ten years with no Yams, I recently managed to locate a pair locally. Wonderful again. Now, David, as Grandmaster Geek, do you have the link for that list of NS1000M serial numbers, with corresponding date of manufacture?

Cheerrsss!! Which beer did you have? You two are great!! :))

Fantastic last rift of the year happy Christmas 🎄 to you both I've had the WiiMPro for 6mths I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it

“Oven gloves”😅

Happy Christmas, lads. Can you please not neglect the humble phono preamp in 2024.

Hey HiFi Geezers. Being in Australia did I see this before you made it? Anyways just thought Id suggest that with the "Riff-ometer” why not introduce a Nigel Tufnell award for when a ten just doesn’t do it? Cheers Big Ears Happy New Year Live Long and Prosper🖖

Happy Christmas! I hate Rush - no allowances today ;-)

I hear David soul used one of those

F.A.B Mike & Dave

Hi. Why are your reviews so much better on the black blokey couch rather than the fluffy white one?

You definitely need progressive lenses !😊

Hoegaarden is not from Holland but from Belgium. And while Vader Abraham is Dutch, The Smurfs is a Belgian comic book series. Look up Belgium, it's right beneath The Netherlands.

If you were that worried about how long this Riff was you could have set a timer? Happy Xmas Iggy and Buster

Merry Christmas! Rush rocks! Does that Cambridge streamer have a built in DAC?

Can you exchange haircuts in 2024?😅

Merry Christmas to you both and all the Best for 2024.I have a list of Hi Fi own that I would love you to borrow and review next year if there's anything you are interested in ? I live in Bournemouth and and eventually when i get my place sorted you visit and give my Hi Fi a once over and suggests what to match with what .Here is list of my gear .latest is a Rega Saturn MK3 cd and Atheos amplifier,driving Ruark Accolade speakers. my amps are Musical Fidelity A1001 Super integrated Amp • Sugden A25 mosfet amp • MVL Integra A+ Amp •Sony TA-FB 940R QS• cd player's Quad 67•Sony CDXB930E QS UK Edition •Denon 3520•Roksan Caspian M2 cd player •Arcam Diva 73 •Sony cdp 750 convertion to nos valve •Marantz 5000 tube conversion • Speakers Kef Refererence 104-2's•Sony AMP 22ES• Musical Fidelity Digilog • All the Best Al

Ps I wanted to ask you a question about the Riff on the Technics SLP999 .Did it really sound almost as good as the Hugo when you unplugged it and used its own Dac and was pretty close to the hugo ,Ive got my eye on a Slp 999 ,and wanted your opinion is it worth buying for the sound quality?All rhe very Best love your Riffs