EISA Awards 2020/2021
Sound+Image and Australian Hi-Fi are EISA’s representatives for Home Theatre and Hi-Fi here in Australia, part of the global Expert Imaging & Sound Association which each year pools the editorial review experience of 61 special interest magazines across 29 countries to agree on a final list of EISA Award Winners.
This is usually followed by quite a shindig of a ceremony (pictured left), held in Berlin each September, at which our Australian timelag allows us, once over the woozy afternoon hump, to party into the small hours with whomsoever else can last the distance.
Alas, no party this year. Instead the judges for each Expert Group have been Zooming in group to arrive at this year’s winners. And this being a global group of winners, occasionally our outlying region gets a significantly different model, or the brand is not available here at all. The rest, however, represent the world’s best. Details of the two Home Theatre expert groups follow; there are full lists of all categories at the end.
Partnering 4K HDR visuals with a superior sound performance and elegant styling, Optoma’s P1 is a winning evolution of the ultrashort-throw projector concept. Its DLP optics and lens assembly can deliver an immersive 100-inch image from a throw distance of less than a metre, helping to bring bigscreen home entertainment to everyday environments. Pictures are richly detailed and colours are vibrant, aided by a 3500-lumenrated laser light source. The onboard sound system from NuForce, meanwhile, brings film and TV soundtracks to life, and handles Bluetooth streams too. Simple to
