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JBL HDI 5.1

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Speaker package | £8400 | whf.cm/HDI51

Of all the things we missed out on last year, trips to the cinema rank pretty highly. On the plus side, we had plenty of time to watch more movies at home during lockdown, but there’s nothing quite like the big screen and the rumble of a great surround-sound set-up.

Perhaps that’s why we’re more excited to test this JBL HDI 5.1 speaker package than we might have been 12 months ago. If blockbuster scale and authority are

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