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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Sound + Image

news

$9999 STREAMING • We ask a top hi-fi shop to recommend a top hi-fi system.

CEDIA’s BEST HOME CINEMAS 2021 • The year’s most stunning home cinemas created and delivered by CEDIA members in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Shrinking surround • Why do you need a hulking great receiver to enjoy surround sound? Canton’s neat little amplifier proves that there is another way.

Total upgrade • This multipurpose Western Australian cinema room goes from 65-inch TV to 4K projection, from 5.1.4 sound to 7.2.4... and from plain white walls to designer décor, thanks to Rogue Home Cinema.

5.1-CHANNEL SPEAKER PACKAGES • Try as soundbars may, they cannot match the true surround sound possibilities offered by 5.1-channel (or more) speaker packages. We get them behind us.

Q Acoustics 3050i 5.1 pack

Elac Debut 2.0 5.1 pack

Triangle BR03 5.1 pack

DALI Oberon 5 5.1 pack

Dynaudio Evoke 5.1 pack

JBL Synthesis HDI 5.1 pack

Hidden solutions • Architectural speaker solutions are available in profusion — in-wall, on-wall, in-ceiling, even hidden subwoofers. But they’re among the hardest things in hi-fi to buy. Here’s why.

Top brands and specialists

Actual size shown • It’s not often we can picture hi-fi at actual size in the magazine, but Silent Angel has ‘shrunk the hi-fi’, delivering a delightfully dinky streamer with high-end performance.

Klipsch Heresy IV • These are ‘Heritage’ loudspeaker designs which succeed on two counts — heresy by name, heresy by deed, and heresy by nature… that’s three, three counts…

Bending iron • How has KEF coaxed such bass from a subwoofer so small?

BOOM! BOOM! THE BLUES TRAILBLAZERS BOOM! BOOM! • The blues: it’s the story of rock’n’roll’s past, but also its present... and its future. Over the coming pages we take you to the barrel houses and gin mills of America to meet some of its fearsome originators that laid down the foundation on which was built the blues explosion that followed, the birth of rock-n-roll and classic rock, leading to the breadth of blues-inspired music that reaches its Australian apogee each year at the annual (Covid-permitting) Byron Bay Bluesfest — this year on a reset after multiple cancellations to take place at Easter: 14-18 April 2022, with a magnificent four-day line-up. Over the next few pages, we salute the trailblazing blues legends from the very beginning.

music & movies

The Rainbow Collection • Groovy tones from records that add colour to your collection.

VINYL-ONLY ALBUMS

CLASSIC TRACK The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

CLASSIC ALBUM: VAN HALEN ‘Van Halen’ (1978)

buying guide