Homegrown Hi-Fi! (an A-to-Z of Australian audio), and the CEDIA Smart Home Awards in a packed new issue of Sound+Image magazine

Sound+Image #365
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Sound+Image is Australia no. 1 mag for audio & AV reviews, news and technology. Every issue is divided between hi-fi features and reviews, audiovisual reviews and updates, plus a lashing of music and movie features to highlight the reason we need the equipment in the first place.

And in our latest issue, #365:...

Sound+Image #365

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HOMEGROWN HI-FI! An A-to-Z of Australian audio
Welcome to a celebration of Australian audio — a feature article focused on our local skills in hi-fi design, and specifically the homegrown hi-fi companies which bring world-class products and skills to our own market, and often far beyond.

The goal here was to include information on every operating Australian hi-fi company which designs and/or manufactures hi-fi here in Australia (though excluding those which make only cables, accessories or kits): we just know we'll have missed some, but here's the list: Atlas Harmonic, DanA Electro Acoustics, DEQX, Dellichord, Döhmann Audio, Duntech, Elektra Audio, Elementi Audio, Encel, Equinox Audio, Halcro, Holton Precision Audio, HulgichAudio, Krix, Kyron Audio, Legend Acoustics, Lenehan Brothers, March Audio, Microphase Audio Design, Osborn Loudspeakers, Pantheone Audio, Redgum, Richter, Secret Chord Analogue, Serhan Swift, SGR Audio, SpectraFlora, VAF Research, and Whatmough. So it's an A-to-W, really...

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CEDIA SMART HOME AWARDS
We’re delighted to join with CEDIA Asia Pacific in bringing you all this year’s winners and finalists from our region’s finest custom installation companies. Standby for the year’s best home cinemas, smart homes, and more!

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EQUIPMENT REVIEWS

Musical Fidelity B1xi integrated AMPLIFIER
Musical Fidelity revives another classic model number, though the B1xi amplifier is more a reinvention than a rebuild of the slightly controversial original from 1988.

Samsung HW-QS700F soundbar
It’s now a decade since Samsung revolutionised its soundbar designs with a new ‘lab’ in California. Its all-dancing range-toppers regularly win awards, but how do its lower soundbars perform?

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Sound+Image is Australia's no.1 mag for audio & AV – sister magazine to Australian Hi-Fi and to the UK's What Hi-Fi?, and bestower of the annual Sound+Image Awards, which since 1989 have recognised the year's best hi-fi and home cinema products and installations. While Sound+Image lives here online as part of our group, our true nature is best revealed in the print magazines and digital issues, which curate unique collections of content each issue under the Editorship of Jez Ford, in a celebration of the joys that real hi-fi and high-quality AV can bring. Enjoy essential reviews of the most exciting new gear, features on Australia's best home cinemas, advice on how to find your sound, and our full Buying Guide based on all our current and past award-winners, all wrapped up with the latest news and editorial ponderings. Click here for more information about Sound+Image, including links to buy individual digital editions and details on how best to subscribe.

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