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Big screen, or big sound?

The Editor decides to go upstairs.

uestion for you. When you’re watching a movie, what’s more important for a feeling of full entertainment immersion — a big screen, or a big sound system? Hands up, then — you at the front. A big screen? Yes, that’s how most people are likely to vote. It’s certainly what goes rolling out of the doors most rapidly in your big chain stores, where dozens of ever-enlarging 4K and 8K tellies are flashing their over-bright showroom-setting screens at every passer-by. Meanwhile the audio systems are huddled somewhere over in the corner, mostly shelves of wireless speakers and soundbars these days, with a few actual floorstanders

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