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.

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IS YOUR SOUNDBAR FAKING IT?

Natural Born Winners • Why choose Yamaha’s NS-3000 gloss-piano-black Zylon-loaded made-in-Japan standmounters? ‘Natural Sound’ is just the start…

Cambridge DacMagic 200M digital-to-analogue converter Magic numbers • Not many DACs can claim to be celebrating a silver anniversary, but Cambridge Audio’s DacMagic 200M maintains the magic of the company’s 1996 original, and then some.

Needles & fins • Classé, the erstwhile amplification stablemate of Bowers & Wilkins, is back in da house.

JBL 4349 stereo loudspeakers Studio audience • Listening to the 4349s from JBL’s Studio Monitor range is like a time-machine ticket to the original recording session.

The Vinyl Record Cleaning System Peel session • Here’s a plan – get your vinyl, clean or dirty, paint it with a face mask, then peel it off to remove all the dirt along with it.

The new Canadian Anthem • Anthem has a new look and new tech for its new range, with the MRX 540 the junior of three new receivers. It’s a delight, and not only for its sonic performance.

Dining room ditched! • This Western Australian family decided to clear away the cutlery and make room for an audio-visual feast instead.

JBL Bar 5.0 MultiBeam soundbar Fully-stocked bar • JBL’s solidly-built soundbar packs in the features and requires no separate subwoofer to deliver the goods.

Samsung HW-Q950A soundbar system It goes up to 11 • 11 channels of surround and four of height? This soundbar makes remarkable claims, but then fulfils them.

TCL 55C825 Mini LED TV A thousand lights • Rather more than a thousand lights, indeed, reside behind the LCD panel of this TCL Mini LED TV. The result is a performance which claims to outshine OLED.

New cinema from old • Out with the old, in with this new reference-level home cinema wrapped in glorious Art Nouveau trimmings.

ELEMENTI AIR

JBL Xtreme3 wireless speakerSize surprise • The Xtreme 3 may be a large wireless speaker, but its sound is very well proportioned.

Final Audio D8000 Pro planar magnetic headphonesHeavy metal • Solid construction with a lightness of touch.

Sony WF-1000XM4 true wireless noise-cancelling budsMusic to the ears • Sony makes significant advances with its new true wireless in-ears, maintaining their lead.

ag-itator • Bargain ’phones, tuned by a premium brand.

Rewinding the joys of video tape

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON • It birthed a new genre of horror comedy — though its director would disagree — on the way to becoming a roaring success. We get moony over the legendary lycanthrope pic...

WHO FRAMEO ROGER RABBIT • It was the ultimate Hollywood team-up — and a showstopping Fx triumph. 30 years later Simon Bland heads back to Toontown...

TOP 5 Eighties soundtracks • It was the decade of brat packers, teen movies and films about fast cars and even faster fighter pilots. Many with kilter scores.

I’ve Never Done Anything Out of The Blue...’ • After the minimalism of his ‘Berlin trilogy’, in 1980 David Bowie and long-time producer Tony Visconti went all out for a kitchen-sink art-rock album: “We wanted to make our Sgt. Pepper!” The result: Scary Monsters.

Clown Prince • The making of the video for Ashes To Ashes.

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