And so it is that we turn our attention to another super high end home cinema leviathan. But rather than a processor, this time it’s the new installation-friendly AVR from Storm Audio. What does SA get right that the luxury competition doesn’t?
This week we ask if home theatre/home cinema is still a popular addition to homes or are people consuming music, movies, sports and TV in different ways in their living spaces. Is Home Cinema or Home Theater as we used to know it, now dead?
Samsung’s flagship soundbars have for generations now delivered the most immersive audio performances in the soundbar world with their huge amounts of power, four components (including real rear speakers) and massive channel counts. So, can Samsung’s new HW-Q990D - which sticks again at 16 channels - keep the improvements coming?
Lyngdorf MXA-8400 Eight Channel Power Amplifier Review
by Martin Dew
Lyngdorf Audio finally offers an 8-channel power amplifier to complement its MP- surround processors. That puts them right in line with its super high-end home cinema competitors. The MXA-8400 certainly looks the part, but does it sound like it as well?
The AX3120G soundbar/subwoofer combo doesn't sport any impressive nicknames like Hisense's HS2100 'The Beast' soundbar yet it comes across well on paper and price wise. So, does the 3.1.2 channel AX3120G prove to have its own set of audio teeth... we shall see.
Perlisten Audio tells the T-Rex to move over. It is time for the next apex predator, the Dominus Rex, to take shape in the form of the Perlisten D15s subwoofer. Read on to find out how Perlisten’s nature found a way.
So, the Theory LCR speaker apparatus does indeed look like a soundbar, but that’s about where similarity ends. Can this novel approach to multi-channel audio really rewrite the rulebook? Let’s find out.
Do you have a big screen TV with underwhelming audio plus a pair of old bookshelf speakers doing nothing? Tangent has created the device that sticks them together.
If you’re going to call one of your products ‘The Beast’ and emblazon its name across the box, that product surely has to be spectacular in some way, right? Maybe it’s going to be huge, perhaps it’s going to be ultra powerful, or maybe it features some sort of ultra-aggressive design that deliberately wants to draw attention to itself. We find out if Hisense's 2.1 channel HS2100 soundbar is a 'behemoth' or a 'wee timorous beastie'.
Martin Dew reviews Lyngdorf’s MP-50 12-channel preamp/processor after living with it for nearly three years. A long-term test, we might call it. Does an elevation to the world of high-end home cinema processors really make a difference in performance terms?
Loewe has been in the game long enough for consumers to instantly associate the name with a luxury end product. So, 100 years after the company's inception how does the klang bar3 mr soundbar fare as one of the firm's most mainstream products of recent times? We find out.
After winning hearts and minds in 2021 with its ultra-small Eclair QP5 soundbar plus subwoofer combi, LG has set out to try and repeat that success with a second-generation Eclair model in a single soundbar format. Does the follow up get things right a second time too?
Majority Teton Plus 2.1 Soundbar With Wireless Subwoofer Review
by Martin Dew
Once again, we revisit the super-budget category with one of Majority’s latest crop of soundbars, the Teton Plus. Some of the Cambridge company’s TV speakers are priced so low, you wonder if they’ll end up giving stuff away for free. But is £99 still worth shelling out for this 2.1 soundbar package?
Faller OSKAR SV-100 Portable TV Voice Enhancer Review
by Martin Dew
With TV audio dialogue clarifying technology devices gaining traction, we look at the new Faller OSKAR SV-100. With its neat docking station and convenient carrying handle, the OSKAR represents a novel approach to this growing category. Let’s see whether the sound matches up to the design…
You can pay the earth for a subwoofer. But the reality is that most of us will settle for something that suits the wallet and can fit through the front door. The JBL A120P satisfies both criteria, but does the sound match up to the price?
Monitor Audio Gold Speaker and Anthra Subwoofer 5.1 Package Review
by Matthew Eisengruber
Monitor Audio has minted another generation of its Gold Series loudspeakers, this time the 5G. Did we find another rich vein in the Monitor Audio speaker mine? Dig in to the review to find out.
Bowers & Wilkins 600 S3 Home Theatre Speaker System Review
by Matthew Eisengruber
Bowers & Wilkins quest for True Sound continues with the 8th generation 600 series. Have they chosen the correct chalice to drink from? Go on this listening adventure with us to find out.