Australian Hi-Fi Magazine is proud to be a member of the world-wide Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) which each year gathers together expert reviewers from more than 60 technology magazines and websites specialising in hi-fi, home theatre, in-car electronics, mobile electronics, photo and video from around the world to judge the best product of the year in each class and reward the manufacturer with a coveted EISA Award. This year, as always, Australian Hi-Fi Magazine voted on the awards given in allthe Hi-Fi categories in a complex process that involved nominations, short-lists, listening sessions, extensive laboratory testing and an exhaustive final voting session, all of which were complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic which meant that all collaboration had to be by electronic means. On the following pages you’ll find all the products that won a ‘Best Product’ prize in the 2021-2022 EISA Award Hi-Fi category individually showcased, along with the Judges’ Citation for each product. A full list of the 2021-2022 EISA Award winners in other categories can be found on page 40.
Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G
EISA FLOORSTANDING LOUDSPEAKERS 2021-2022
The seventh generation of Monitor Audio’s Silver Series incorporates a wide range of acoustic innovations, all on show in the magnificent floorstanding flagship of the range, the Silver 500 7G. The C-CAM metal/ceramic tweeter has a new motor and housing, for cleaner, sweeter treble, while the RST II midrange and bass drivers are fashioned from an improved ceramic-coated alloy for greater stiffness. Add in a refined crossover and a beautifully-finished enclosure, into which the drivers are fixed with bolt-through mountings, and you have a speaker as adept with the finest detail as it is developing a massive, powerful view of the music.
KEF LS50 Meta
EISA STANDMOUNT LOUDSPEAKERS 2021-2022
The original, EISA Award-winning LS50 loudspeaker was widely acclaimed, but KEF’s engineers have taken it to a new level with numerous detail revisions including the use of Metamaterial Absorption Technology to further control unwanted driver resonances. That may seem like a small internal upgrade, but the result is a magnificent compact speaker capable
