Kob Monney
Kob began his career at What Hi-Fi?, starting in the dusty stockroom before rising up the ranks to join the editorial and production team as the Buyer’s Guide editor. Experienced in both magazine and online publishing, he now runs the TV & audio section at Trusted Reviews where he keeps a beady eye on all the latest comings and goings in the hi-fi and home cinema market.
Latest articles by Kob Monney

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The crew of the U.S.S Enterprise are back and they face a foe in Idris Elba's Krall, who is seeking to destroy everything they stand for

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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are two bumbling investigators in 70s LA, searching for a missing adult actress in Shane Black's witty new film...

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The National Audio Show is an annual fixture in the gentrified surroundings of Whittlebury Hall. As ever, there was some weird and wonderful hi-fi on display...

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A punk band finds itself between rock and a hard place when a group of neo-Nazis lay siege to the venue they're playing at

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Two friends decide to become "gun-runners" and take on the weapons-dealing giants in Todd Philips' too-crazy-to-be-true film War Dogs.

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Eddie the Eagle soars onto Blu-ray in this charming biopic of British Olympian Eddie Edwards.

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J.J. Abrams and director Dan Trachtenberg deliver a "blood relative" to the original Cloverfield with this suspenseful sequel

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The hear0 upcycles used balls from tennis championships and turns them into Bluetooth speakers. New balls please!

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Roberts has unveiled its Stream 65i sound system, which includes a CD player, streaming features and multi-room functionality.

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IconX wireless in-ear headphones include 4GB of storage so can store and play up to 1000 MP3 tracks.

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We flash back to March 2002, when B&W went in a slightly different (and bigger) direction with its 602 S3 standmounters...

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Bluesound is the first multi-room music system to feature the Meridian developed MQA audio format.

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We look back to the year 1983, when Sony's latest deck appeared at a time when vinyl was floundering…

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We look back to 2008 and a review of LG's 47LG5000 TV, a time when the company's sets didn't perform quite as well as they looked…

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We look back to 1997 and a review of Tannoy's Mercury M3's, a pair of budget floorstanders that set the bar for the company's later efforts...

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We look back at our 2014 review of Bush's LE-39GBP-A, a budget 4K TV that was definitely too good to be true…

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits Blu-ray after its triumphant theatrical release. The world agrees it's better than the prequels, but does it match the originals?

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Scared to share your musical tastes with others? Well, the Akoustic Arts A speaker and its novel, directional design, means you'll never have to...

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Michael Fassbender is terrific in this smart biopic about the late Apple founder Steve Jobs.

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Black Mass has its merits but an improved performance from Johnny Depp can't save a lacklustre film...

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Denis Villeneuve's Sicario is out on Blu-ray and it's a tense thriller complete with a great picture and excellent sound.

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A round-up of news and reviews to have graced What Hi-Fi? this week, including details of the Sky Q launch and reviews of Bluesound and Samsung products

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As Sennheiser passes its 70th anniversary, we speak to CEOs Daniel and Dr. Andreas Sennheiser about 9.1-channel sound, hi-res audio and what makes a great pair of headphones.
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