Sound and Image

There’s a mightily odd audio story going around (Wired, the BBC, The Sun et al) about a UK researcher presenting the idea of “custom malware that can induce all sorts of embedded speakers to emit inaudible frequencies at high intensity, or blast out

We’ve seen nano and mini projectors before, but Epson’s new EF-100 is something rather different, and genuinely impressive both in what it offers and in the results it delivers (we have one up and running for this hands-on report). Notably it uses Ep

Marantz has announced the latest versions of its popular slimline AV receivers, which provide multichannel power, an HDMI hub for the home, and HEOS wireless multiroom streaming, all in a chassis far lower than the usual AV receiver height. The $1099

Beware the artificial ceiling! — that was one of the take-outs from the Australian tour of the Barco Bragi CinemaScope projector, where staff from Barco Residential and its Australian distributor National AV Solutions were demonstrating the new proje

Mick Peaker is Managing Director of AVICAL Australia, and an ISF Level II Video Calibrator, capable of tuning your projector or television to perfection, and he’s as clued-up a dude as you’ll find on the differences between brands and the adjustments

As of last year, EISA dropped ‘European’ from its name to become the Expert Imaging and Sound Association, as it welcomes new member magazines from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, the United States — plus our titles Sound+Image and Australian Hi-Fi

While our main reviews in Sound+Image necessarily focus on equipment, we know full well that the room in which the equipment operates is perhaps the most important element of all — its shape, its acoustics, the ambient level of sound before you start

The front three reclining seats and the double ‘love seat’ behind are all equipped with D-BOX cinematic motion systems. A D-BOX Controller identifies content regardless of the source (DVD, Blu-ray or streaming sources such as Netflix and AppleTV), an

It’s getting on for two years since we originally covered this hi-fi home in which Len Wallis Audio’s team had commissioned a unique version of Naim Audio’s Statement amplifier — one which doubled up on the twin power amplifiers of this already uber-

Sennheiser’s AMBEO soundbar is a truly remarkable product in several ways. Most notable when you first encounter it is the sheer size — not so much its width, which at 126.5cm is not exceptionally wide in the soundbar world, but add in the height and

Sennheiser sees AMBEO as an ‘umbrella terminology’ for immersive audio, or ‘3D audio’. Uwe Cremering (see overleaf) describes it neatly as simply “a listening experience”. When we recently interviewed Peter Ogley, Chief Operating Officer responsible

So far BenQ’s UltraHD projector offerings have been at either end of the sales spectrum. There have been the premium models, up near the $10,000 price point, and the budget models, down somewhere near a quarter of that price. Now BenQ is plugging tha

In this business — writing and thinking about home entertainment equipment — there are two basic philosophies. Two philosophies that affect what we hear in our listening rooms, and what we see on our viewing screens. Two philosophies that can sometim

Hisense TVs use the company’s own VDIAA smart operating system. Or do they? The new RG series — these are priced closer to the entry level for Hisense UltraHD TVs — use Android. Here we dig into the 65-inch version, the Hisense 65RG. As a lower model

So TCL recently pulled off something of a coup — it become the biggest-selling brand of television in the United States for the first quarter of 2019, scoring a full 26% of North American TV unit sales against 22% for Samsung (according to IHS Markit

Like many other companies, Sony all but stopped selling turntables during vinyl’s years of decline. But also like many other companies, it has been encouraged back to the medium by its revival, both by the numbers and by vinyl’s sheer cool-ness. In 2

N aim Audio isn’t as odd as it once was; its jokey arrogance has largely subsided, and it answers, to at least some extent, to its holding company masters across the Channel, VerVent Audio Group, also owners of Focal. But this hasn’t stopped it deliv

There was a bit of déjà vu when testing the latest and greatest wireless noise-cancellers from Audio-Technica. It’s only a few issues since we reviewed the ANC700BT, and the new 900 model proved to have the same sonic characteristics, the same contro

JBL’s wireless noise-cancelling LIVE 650BTNC headphones have just picked up an award from EISA’s Mobile Devices Expert Group, a particularly impressive achievement given that the price here of $249.95 is significantly below the sweet-spot of $399/$49

Melbourne’s Tivoli Hi-Fi is inviting all our readers — yes, everyone, whether you’re looking for a new system or just keen to see the store’s new approach — to head down to the Camberwell Shopping Precinct to see the result of its recent renovations.

As our last issue hit the presses, the Nikkei Asian Review reported that Huawei plans to introduce the world’s first 5G television. Say wha? But yes, you heard correctly. Huawei’s first entry into the television market will reportedly have not only a

Wavetrain Cinemas were called to this home to see how the existing cinema room could be upgraded to current technologies. But “as soon as the client turned the system on, it was obvious there were many issues in the room that needed to be first corre

This second entry from The Digital Picture is in the same category, but with quite a different brief. The client wanted a cinema room that would deliver high impact movies when you’re in the front row, while the back row was to be available for gener

This first contender in CEDIA’s Level III Home Cinemas sees Len Wallis Audio delivering the largest channel count of any Meridian-based theatre system in the world — for a young family of five “who were knowledgeable and experienced with home cinemas

There are two finalists in this CEDIA Awards category of Innovative System or Solution, which CEDIA defines as “a unique, innovative, or creative installation solution or use of technology that that meets the homeowner’s unique requirements”. In the

This spectacular luxury Queensland home was not only a challenge for its sheer size, but for the age range of users for which the control system needed to be intuitive, from the owners to their parents and grandchildren. “Design was key”, emphasises

The build process for this luxury Queensland ‘forever home’ was well under way with cabling about to start when Bridger was contacted to take over from a previous installer out of their depth. “Within a few days, we had ironed out the mess, and comme