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Oh the wonders of today’s streaming and multiroom platforms! As you’ll see from the products selected by the awards judges in this issue, many of the most interesting new components have streaming platforms built in; they’re capable of app-controlled

Duntech Senator. Duntech holds a very special place in the heart of many Australian audiophiles. Not only were they undisputedly one of the finest speakers ever built, they were designed and manufactured here in Australia. Unfortunately the company f

KEF has popped out a colourful family of LSX wireless stereo speakers, which roughly halve both the size and price of the company’s successful LS50W model. It’s even less in volumetric terms, indeed — the LSX is 24cm high rather than the LS50W’s 30cm

At Sound+Image we always recommend buying from a proper hi-fi shop which can recommend the right gear for you. This issue we talk with Bill Mclean, from Mcleans Smarter Home Entertainment in East Gosford, where Bill and Margaret Mclean have been serv

It’s our equivalent of a ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation — chosen from a full year of reviewing, not only in Sound+Image magazine but in Australian Hi-Fi, Audio Esoterica and Best Buys & AV — plus on AVHub.com.au and a rush of late arrivals as we approac

The Music Hall mmf 1.5 is a three-speed (33⅓, 45 and 78rpm), belt-driven turntable — with dustcover — that comes complete with a tonearm into which has been pre-installed a ‘Melody’ moving-magnet phono cartridge. And it also has a built-in phono prea

What do we even mean by ‘Music Player of the Year’? Well with so many paths to playback of music these days, we can give awards to CD players, to streamers, to a turntable — but how should we recognise a box that attempts to do pretty much everything

It wins our CD Player of the Year, but in fact it’s rather more than that. Indeed the CD mechanism gets a pretty brief description these days in Marantz literature next to all the other digital goodies, though it is of course a high-quality tray-load

There was a little category confusion around here this year — so many products doing more than one thing, and later on you’ll encounter another ‘DAC’ in our preamplifier category, because amongst other things it has inputs and a volume knob, so it’s

When we reviewed this smart amplifier back in our June-July issue, we spent much of our time trying to work out what was wrong with it. It’s loaded with networking abilities including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, AirPlay, Spotify and all the benefits of Yamaha’

James A. Michener in his 1971 novel ‘The Drifters’ indulges in a bit of cheap psychologising, suggesting hi-fi fans are principally interested in a sense of control. That flies in the face of the minimalism of the past few decades: the shedding of to

The UK-based Q Acoustics rarely offers anything other than excellent value. In this latest ‘i’ update of its 3000 Series, these 3050i floorstanders seem a particular bargain, at $1399 for the pair, yet exuding a sense of quality even just from their

Revel is a dedicated high-end brand founded by Harman International in 1996, and the F208s were designed by Kevin Voeks, Director of Engineering at Revel since that time, previously the head designer at Snell, and before that at Mirage. The heritage

The latest HDA range from the UK’s Arcam is the first since the company was acquired by Harman (which is itself owned by Samsung). Yet the new range — two integrated amplifiers and a CD player — confirm that Arcam isn’t about to change its ethos unde

What we liked best about the $6500 B&W 702 S2 loudspeakers was that everything we played through them sounded great. Rather than aiming for studio monitor-like accuracy, B&W instead seems to have engineered this design to make whatever music you play