A first Carbon wheel-set……

[T4tomo]

The Hunts have, some would say deliberately, very loud freehubs. There is an argument that they spend more on marketing than the components, but there are also a lot of happy customers.

In the vein of small UK builders, I bought from here, a fellow cyclechatter recommendation
https://zedbikewheels.com/
They do a lifetime crash warranty.

Obviously all these small UK builders are sourcing hubs and rims from the Far East, before someone decides to point that out.

 

[Sea of vapours]

For good value, hand-built wheels, have a look at DCR Wheels web site: https://dcrwheels.co.uk/

They make wheels very well indeed (at least, the two pairs I have have covered about 30,000 km each with no issues), and their 'signature' offerings are priced for quality rather than marketing, plus you can customise as much as you wish.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Hunt generate a fair bit of debate. I bought a set some time back and returned them straight off as they just seemed underbuilt. They certainly used to keep the cost down by utilising some fairly bog standard components, nothing wrong with that, but there is better out there IMO.

With a £600-700 budget, I would actually be looking at China now. I am going to take a punt on my next set from 9velo as I have heard a lot of good things about the component and build quality. Both Hambini and Peak Torque on Youtube have done long term testing on them and rate them very highly and I would be inclined to take them at their word. You can pick up a set delivered for around US1000, but I have a 10% discount code somewhere so with the current exchange rate they would be about £650 all in I believe.

https://www.9velo.com/