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SOUND + IMAGE magazine offers a comprehensive package focused on lifestyle home electronic entertainment. It provides easy-to-read information about audio and video equipment and how ordinary consumers can assemble extraordinary systems that look and sound fantastic.

RTFM! • This is the catch-cry of technical helplines the world over. But then why don't they put the FM in the box?

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Yamaha brings ‘True X’ • WIRELESS REARS WITH A LIFE OF THEIR OWN

Bowers & Wilkins 600 Series 3

Apple patent foresees extra-aural speaker pairs

Sennheiser Ambeo: and then there were three

Paris match

Tidal FLAC: latest info

Hegel's winning duo

Rotel updates Ishiwata's final performance

Stax hits 85: portable package & a free e-book

Yamaha brings smart amps for less $$$

Maintaining Momentum

Limited-edition Jony Ive Linn Sondek

Leica looks at Laser TV through a new lens

METAXES & SINS STRIKES AGAIN

EISA Awards 2023/2024 • For more than 40 years, the annual EISA Awards have delivered the combined judgement of magazine editors around the world, a global perspective on the best-value and highest-performing consumer electronics you can buy. Sound+Image placed its votes; here are the winners…

HI-FI EXPERT GROUP AWARDS 2023-2024

EXPERT GROUPS FOR MOBILE DEVICES, IN-CAR & PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2023-2024

Surprise us… • You may know exactly what you'd request in a bespoke luxury home cinema. But this home owner, perhaps not so much. ‘Surprise us!’, he told the team at Wavetrain Cinemas…

Meet the new boss • It looks the same as the old boss, it's true, but internal upgrades and updated abilities bring Sony's new midrange receiver back to the top of its class.

Sticking with Sony

360 Spatial Sound Mapping technology

Energy bar • TCL's well-priced soundbar and subwoofer combo seems simple but is in fact loaded with a great many EQ options. Once we'd worked them out, it proved an energetic performer.

Fitting in nicely • Optoma delivers the smallest ultra-short-throw 4K projector yet, and its compact size doesn't limit its performance.

IT'S ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS

AV ahoy! • A superyacht deserves super sound, yet the choices aboard ‘Betty’ may not be what you'd expect for a marine install…

New entry! • It comes at an entry-level price, but this Lenco turntable has both performance and facilities that we'd expect would come from a higher deck.

Born in the ’80s • It was a classic in its day, and it's now reissued in nearly its original form. But is 1980s hi-fi something to get excited about?

Audio designer Simon Quarry on the A1

Metamorphosis • The R Series is the latest to get KEF's MAT disc treatment. Does the innovation help the already excellent R3 standmount sing still more?

Nineteen to the dozen • It's Vivid's smallest speaker, with just 12 litres of internal space. Yet it loves going loud and it's not short of bass. What's its trick?

MAGNUM OPUS • Fifty years ago, a teenage hopeful's many-times-rejected demo found favour with the maverick young boss of a new record label, who decided to give it a go. The result, released in May 1973, was a commercial and cultural phenomenon: Mike Oldfield's ‘Tubular Bells’.

Tom Newman • Original album producer Tom Newman talks a load of Bells

Dolby Atmos top demo scenes • To test your Atmos-compatible gear, or just to thrill your ears, here are some more great scenes to track down with an Atmos stream, or even better, to invest in a disc copy, for true uncompressed Atmos action. Got a favourite Atmos scene yourself? Let us know!

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