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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.

Let’s dance • Apparently we can make music — and anything else happening at the time — more memorable if we dance while we listen. So let’s try that.

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$250k VINYL system • We ask a top hi-fi shop to recommend a top hi-fi system.

Gaming and beyond • Gamers get low latency, while movie fans get outstanding colour delivery and a new entry to the DLP mirror-flipping family.

Hidden talents • It seems a straightforward soundbar and sub combo, but the TCL gains from its 3.1.2 upward-firing drivers and multiple paths to music streaming.

Going wide and high • This solid and wide soundbar-and-subwoofer package from Hisense includes side-firing and upfiring drivers to deliver 5.1.2-channel sound from Atmos sources.

JOIN THE VINYL REVOLUTION! • Collectors, music lovers, hip dudes, retro fiends — whatever brings you back to the black stuff, there’s a deck to suit your needs.

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Rega Planar 1 • Freshly refreshed with a stylish matte finish, Rega’s entry-level turntable shows the benefits of solid engineering while keeping it simple.

Audio-Technica AT-LPW50PB • Audio-Technica shows its class with this super-solid turntable at an excellent price.

Music Hall Classic • Music Hall is a unique company which here delivers a luxurious-looking ‘Classic’ at a marvellously affordable price.

Yamaha MusicCast Vinyl 500 • Yamaha adds clever extras, installing its full MusicCast platform to create a wireless streaming multiroom turntable...

Clearaudio Concept • This may be the German company’s least expensive turntable, but it delivers impressive performance, and has a good few upgrade options.

Rega Planar 6 • Between Rega’s entry-level decks and its reference performers sits the Rega Planar 6. It finds a sweet spot all of its own.

Holbo Mkll Airbearing Turntable • Holbo’s deck is deliberately different, with linear tracking and a pair of air bearings that seek to serve silence from this Solvenian design.

Mark Levinson № 5105 • Our final spinner comes from high-end Harman brand Mark Levinson, the vinyl source from its 5000 series.

KLIPSCH & MCLAREN • Our active speakers of the year have been souped up by a pit-stop partnership with McLaren F1.

Build your own • AlAIAI’s headphones arrive as a box of parts. Interesting...

What are LinkBuds? • What is Sony up to with this radical in-ear design?

CEDIA TOP INTEGRATED HOMES 2021 • Stunning homes loading with smart but subtle integrated systems designed and delivered by CEDIA members in our Asia-Pacific region.

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