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It’s one thing to have dual DACs running on separate channels. And it’s not uncommon to be offered a choice of DAC filters with which you can experiment to find your perfect response. But with its SE200, the second model in the premium ‘A&futura’ lin

As the company notes, ‘Signature’ product launches are rare events in Bowers & Wilkins’ year history. Not that the new 700 Series releases are actually ‘signed’ regrettably neither John Bowers nor Roy Wilkins is with us anymore, so instead the rear p

Canton is only a couple of years off its 50th anniversary, having begun in the early 1970s when four German hi-fi enthusiasts set themselves up in a former village school with the bold goal of producing the best loudspeaker for every taste and every

SOUND+IMAGE: At what stage and at what level has Meridian been working on the LG’s 2020 soundbar range — do you have input into the initial physical design, into the electronics and the drivers, or are you solely involved in DSP processing? MERIDIAN:

We specifically asked for a play with the SN7CY because it is a soundbar without a subwoofer. If a soundbar can deliver well enough without one, it’s a doubly convenient solution. Notable successes include Sennheiser’s Ambeo, the new Sonos Arc, and S

As Uwe Cremering describes in our interview overleaf, there was a desire to combine the two very different types of surround already provided by the market — the ‘press a button for fake surround’ type of soundbar, and those that deliver a more puris

Yamaha’s MusicCast platform allows speakers to be paired or joined for multiroom playback, and ‘MusicCast Surround’ enables you to enjoy genuine rear surround from either two of the small MusicCast 20 speakers ($439 each), or one larger stereo) Music

When compared to other Fiio DAPs like the M9, the M11 is thicker and heavier, but diving into its parts explains why. Socketry is generous: it has two microSD slots, so with 2TB cards able to carry a possible 4TB of high-res music, along with 32GB of

Violator: The 12” Singles Boxing up the remixes. Thirty years ago, when Depeche Mode’s seventh album slithered along, Brits stopped scratching their head as to why the Basildon boys were breaking big in America. This latest in a series of releases of

Ammonia Avenue - Limited Box Set Despite the title, it doesn’t stink. By 1984 The Alan Parsons Project were flushed with success following ‘Eye In The Sky’. Although it wouldn’t achieve the platinum success of its predecessor, ‘Ammonia Avenue’ reache

Your new TV is almost definitely 4K, right? Unless it’s 8K (but see opposite). So if you want to see what that screen can really do, you’ll want to watch some 4K content. Yet this isn’t as easy as you might think — even though the first 4K TV went on