Sound + Image

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.

We'll throw away 86% of your music, OK? • The Editor wishes the world could be more lossless. But it can't.

Wilson's multichannel expansion

Yellow is the new Arcam • Or orange. You decide.

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Yamaha spins out

IT'S VEGAS, IT'S JANUARY: IT MUST BE… CES

Home cinema through a new lens • Germany's Leica moves from cameras that capture moments to crafting cinematic magic with a 'Cinema TV'. And it's a beauty, both outside, and on the screen.

Luminous precision • Seeing out its time in Mini LED Pro glory, the 65-inch U8K shows Hisense moving from its traditional value niche into full performance that challenges all comers.

Welcome to the Sound Field • Yamaha says its latest combo fully in a sonic globe, a big claim for any soundbar system. Is it exaggerating?

Reshape your vinyl listening experience AUDIO-TECHNICA AT-VM95HIFI SET CARTRIDGE AND ACCESSORY BUNDLE • This bundle release of three different cartridges, each with a different stylus profile, shows how easily you can literally reshape your vinyl listening experience.

VM: CLOSER TO THE MUSIC

Just add music • Take a pair of Italian-designed speakers and add amplifiers, streaming and external inputs including HDMI. Presto! — a complete hi-fi and TV system. You just decide how to input your entertainment.

Stylish power with a Blu bonus • UK marque Roksan delivers a stylish exterior for a solid Class-AB amplifier enhanced by full BluOS streaming.

JOIN THE VINYL REVOLUTION! • FROM SURVIVAL TO REVIVAL

WHAT TO CONSIDER WHEN BUYING A TURNTABLE

Sony PS-LX310BT • Sony's turntable offers four ways to play, including Bluetooth streaming and USB recording, at a remarkably low price.

Pro-Ject Primary E • Pro-Ject's entry- level turntable may be entirely basic, but it delivers the sonic fundamentals required to make it a fine first turntable.

JBL Spinner BT • The cheaper of JBL's first ever pair of turntables, the Spinner BT comes loaded with a phono stage and Bluetooth wireless playback.

Lenco LBT-225 • Not only is Lenco's affordable turn- table impressively built and loaded, it comes with a built- in phono stage, Bluetooth output, and USB recording.

Rega Planar 1 Plus • Rega bolts a phono stage directly onto one of its low-mass turntables for the first time. Unsurprisingly, they didn't do it quite the way you might expect.

Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Evo • New colours are just the start of an evolution which led to the latest and undoubtedly greatest in Pro-Ject's line of Debut turntables.

Cambridge Alva ST • The lesser of Cambridge's two turntables nevertheless offers significant value and brings line-level output plus wireless Bluetooth listening with aptX HD.

JBL TT350 Classic • JBL's higher-level turntable leaves behind the 'youth' culture looks of the Spinner BT and goes for modern vintage. But how does it sound?

And there's more… • There's always something new in the wonderful world of vinyl; here are some of the latest releases, from cartridge solutions to full-on high-end decks.

LC3 A NEW CODEC FOR BLUETOOTH AND BEYOND • Fraunhofer's research labs are where some of the world's most prominent audio codecs have been made. And they have a new one — LC3. We were a bit rude about it when first we wrote about it, and our penance was a long briefing by two European Fraunhofer engineers. It proved very interesting indeed. So read on for all you need to know on the main audio...