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TONY STANTZOS OF AUDIO SOLUTIONS

EXTREME screens for SPORTS • Looking for an upgrade to enjoy the upcoming sports season? 4K projection and the latest TV technologies can take you closer to the action than ever.

PROJECTORS: the choices

MICRO LED mini LED OLED evo QNED QD DISPLAY • Most years see great PR fanfares for what are often only iterative steps in TV tech. But this year things have gone slightly bananas, with new concepts and combinations delivering genuine advances, including for OLED.

OLED evo & more Mini LED from LG

ULTRA-short & sweet • Hisense’s latest Laser TV bundles a 100-inch screen with a smart ultra-short-throw projector — just the thing for a big night of sport, or any other visual entertainment.

Sport that shines • Ultra-short-throw is trending, but don’t neglect more traditional projection, especially if you can dedicate a room to your sport & movie entertainment.

BenQ: sports specialism

Going NATIVE • Native 4K projection isn’t cheap. But as Sony’s projectors invariably show, it is spectacular.

EXTREME screens for SPORTS • Often think you could make more use of your double garage? Len Wallis Audio’s team has transformed this former parking space into a triple-screened games and sports haven…

STREAMERS • All the world’s music from a single box

WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN CHOOSING A STREAMER

Yamaha WXAD-10 • A simple box which brings Yamaha’s MusicCast streaming and multiroom platform to your existing system.

Sonos Port • The Port replaces the longstanding Sonos Connect as the simplest way to bring Sonos streaming to any audio system.

HEOS Link HS2 • The HEOS Link can bring streaming to an existing audio system while also providing inputs which can be shared around a home to other HEOS devices.

Yamaha NP-S303 • More MusicCast, here in a real hi-fi unit which delivers real hi-fi streaming sound.

Bluesound Node 2i • The ‘2i’ upgrades brought real benefits to the Bluesound ecosystem, which has been solidly sound-focused from the beginning, and now sounds even better.

Matrix Audio element i • A compact Roon-Ready streamer which doubles as DAC and digital preamp.

Cambridge Audio CXN v2 • A hi-fi component streamer designed to complement the rest of Cambridge’s CX Series 2, but which will shine in any system.

Meridian 210 • Meridian’s 210 Streamer is something rather different, yet proves able to deliver impressively high quality output from a neat and potentially hideaway solution.

NAD C 658 • NAD’s streamer looks so plain, so very trad NAD, that you’d never guess all the secrets it holds inside, round the back, and in its BluOS access to a world of music.

Pioneer N-70AE • Pioneer’s network player is a full-size 11kg audio component built to high standards and loaded with streaming and networking options. And its sound was thrilling.

Linn Selekt DSM • As reviewed the Linn Selekt DSM is a streaming preamplifier, but it can be transformed into something else entirely.

Moon 680D streaming DAC • Built by Canadians, solid enough to stand a moose on, and with a high-tech streaming platform inside to bring music from around the world.

Naim ND 555 / 555 PS DR • reference network player + quiet power supply

Craic agus Ceol • Music and diversion is exactly what Denon’s all-in-one system delivers, loaded as it is with full streaming abilities in addition to more traditional...