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.

Pink Floyd songs in a bluegrass style • Now that art is smart, will music follow? Let's perhaps hope not.

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The Hi-Fi Headlines • NEWSLETTER NO.261 Following a couple of years of Covid enforced inactivity we are finally seeing some new, and exciting, stock hit our shelves.

Yamaha's return to orthodynamics

NEW WIRELESS SPEAKERS

Will Europe blow a hole in the 8K TV market?

TCL brings Roku

BusiSoft takes Clearaudio

Hi-fi porn: anniversary haul from Audio-Technica

READ THIS FIRST

aptX Lossless: what it is, and why it requires a dragon

An Ohm from home

Epson brings new Pro 4K UHD at $2k, 1080p at $1k

They call it 'Cl-fi'

Brilliance. With choice. • Samsung has delivered a new kind of OLED television. It makes the company's total TV offering irresistible.

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$22k vinyl + streaming • We ask a top hi-fi shop to recommend a top hi-fi system.

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Revival meeting • A new brand arrives from France, with a little nostalgia on the outside, but a full dose of tech on the inside.

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This is not a toy… • In fact this limited-edition souped-up re-release turntable turns out to be something of a burger king…

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crazy slim! • Not only are KEF's towers crazy slim, these are fully active streaming speakers which could be used as a complete system in themselves.

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Fantastic four • Full Atmos surround from four speakers and a little control box? We delve deep into Sony's innovative take on surround for the lounge.

360 Spatial Sound Mapping - what is going on?

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SIMPLER SOUNDBARS • We recently reviewed a set of soundbars loaded with bells, whistles, and fairly hefty price-tags. But can soundbars fulfil their sonic purpose at a lower level? Here are three that aim to do just that, from BlueAnt, Samsung & Yamaha.

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BlueAnt XT100 • We love to hear sound bars that work without a subwoofer, as they can simplify the system considerably. The question then is whether they can also deliver the sonic goods.

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Yamaha SR-C30A • Yamaha's small sound bars have done well on their own. The SR-C30 also brings a subwoofer, despite its price of just $399.

Samsung HW-S800B S-Series • An 'Ultra Slim' bar means less room for drivers and sockets, less volume for sound reproduction. The style benefits are obvious, but will the sound be similarly slimline?

New Theories • We're invited to hear Theory's unusual cinema speaker solution in situ.

INTERVIEW WITH PAUL HALES • We put our questions about the structure of the Theory system direct to the company’s President and product designer, Paul Hales.

For your EARS only • A little bit of Bond gives Bowers & Wilkins' Px8 a licence to thrill.

Samsung's soundbar secret is sound • Now the S-Series lifts the lifestyle factor too.

CEDIA AWARDS 2022 • Prepare to peek in on some stunning homes and cinemas, loaded with smart but subtle integrated systems, delivered by CEDIA members in our Asia-Pacific region.

Into another dimension • From a distribution co-operative to an iconic audio brand that has brought affordable hi-fi to millions, the growth of the New Acoustic Dimension concept "was a wonderful ride", as NAD's late great founder Martin L. Borish put it.

NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE World...