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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$220k ROON system • We ask a top hi-fi shop to recommend a top hi-fi system.

Laser light show • The combination of laser light sources and pixel-wobbling UHD resolution puts Epson’s new EH-LS12000B up on a 4K pedestal.

Zep IV • Led Zeppelin’s fourth album was a timeless classic. Can Bowers & Wilkins’ fourth Zeppelin sound system pull off the same trick?

Flattening the Snail • Sonus faber returns to its heritage to get serious about single-box sound.

GROUP TEST FLOORSTANDING LOUDSPEAKERS • Before you meet the 18 pairs of floorstanders we’ve gathered together, here are the things you might wish to consider when choosing loudspeakers.

Elac Debut 2.0 DF52

Krix Phoenix Mk2

Richter Harlequin S6

Acoustic Energy AE309

Triangle Borea BR08

Polk Signature Elite S60

Richter Wizard S6

Krix Harmonix Mk2

Bower & Wilkins 603 S2 Anniversary

DALI Oberon 9

Paradigm Premier 800F

Krix Neuphonix Mk2

JBL HDI-3600

Spendor A7

Revel PerformaBe F226Be

Vivid Audio Kaya 25

Bowers & Wilkins 804 D4

JBL Project K2 S9900

Studio exit • Popular pro headphones get the Bluetooth treatment.

60th anniversary

Classic ads • While researching Audio-Technica’s history, we were given access to a collection of older images, and discovered how beautiful were the Japanese company’s advertisements in its home market, especially during the 1970s. Here are some of them. How much do we want a re-release of the 1980s Sound Burger!

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