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.

Seeking fresh sounds • The Editor promises to work on his ‘prog fog’.

Sound + Image

A Capella from Triangle

McIntosh for movies

How to throw a subwoofer

New Pups from Wilson

DTS:X spotted in the wild!

Mixing Nodes and NADs

The return of MQA

Rotel classic amp just $649

Win a wall!

Italians unite in Perth

EISA AWARDS 2024-2025 • The global EISA Awards deliver the combined judgement of tech-mag editors around the world to present awards to the best- value and highest-performing consumer electronics you can buy. Sound+Image placed its votes; here are the winners…

EISA Awards 2024-2025 HI-FI EXPERT GROUP

EISA Awards 2024-2025

WHERE TO FIND THE EISA WINNERS? • Here we’ve listed all the winners from the AV and Hi-Fi Expert Groups with their Australian distributor and some handy QR codes to their pages, which should then point you to your nearest local hi-fi or AV store where you can check the winning products in person.

Put a ring on it • Size restrictions and strict divisions within a new extension made this home cinema a challenge for the team at Wavetrain Cinemas, but careful choices and a strong sci-fi theme delivered a stunning result.

Class of 24 • With sizes from 65 to 98 inches, TCL’s C855 series offers some serious TV for the money, in Mini-LED picture quality and Google TV convenience as well as sheer panel size.

The TCL Channel

Cans and wings • Music coming from the wings of your sunnies? If your face fits, then JBL’s Soundgear Frames are a cool way to enjoy tunes on the move… and they come at an attractive price.

Music made easy • All-in-one music systems should deliver beautiful music with the minimum of effort. Our following pages bring together the latest and the greatest: from dinky digital radios to desk-dominating musical furniture. To kick off, though, we should first examine the full case for — but also against — all-in-one systems.

Richter Core+: radio to go • The simplest of all-in-ones: FM and DAB+, at home or away.

DAB+ hand Majority Little Shelford • While most of us are streaming and spinning our tunes, there is endless free entertainment whizzing around our heads via FM and DAB+ radio waves. All you need is a box to grab the passing sounds.

Yamaha MusicCast 200 The art of understatement • Yamaha’s latest MusicCast machine is more luxurious than it looks in the pictures, and has both sonic abilities and streaming features that you might not even notice at first. Give it time, and this all-in-one system can seriously impress.

All-in-twos

JBL Authentics 500 Ready to party • Halfway between hi-fi and party playback lies the Authentics 500, a range-topping smart wireless speaker with impressive abilities and a rather enormous sound.

Beosound A5 Your picnic pal • ‘Around the home’ and even further afield, Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound A5 aims for all-round wireless speaker performance — with benefits.

Ruark R410 Classic style reimagined • Ruark’s table radios have long been delighting customers, but this unit from the new ‘100’ series combines its classic approach with some brilliant new ideas.

JBL L75ms A gentle beast • It’s big and wide and heavy, it looks like the top of a concert P.A., yet JBL’s L75ms continues a company legacy of large and relatively hi-fi all-in-one systems.

And not forgetting… • There are other all-in-ones which are well worthy of consideration, but which we’ve covered in full...