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, #362:...
MINI AMPS THAT ARE BIG ON STREAMING
Group test: Various developments have fed the rise of smaller hideaway amplifiers with app control and built-in streaming. But with such variety in power and price, how do you find your level?
- Feature: How to choose your amplifier
- Review: WiiM Pro
- Review: Sonos Amp
- Review: Denon Home Amp
- Review: Bluesound Powernode Edge
- Review: Marantz Model M1
- Review: Electrocompaniet RENA SA2
OPEN HEADPHONES
Group of three: They may annoy people on the bus commute, but for solo listening, open-backed headphones are a pathway to the airiest of hi-fi sounds. We test three new models at radically different price levels.
- Review: AUDIO-TECHNICA ATH-R30x
New and attractively-priced open headphones – just A$219, yet they pretty much blew us away with their effortless and balanced presentation.
- Review: SENNHEISER HD 550
It can be hard to tell Sennheiser’s many headphones apart – yet they are invariably safe performers when it comes to the sonics, as these HD 550s confirm.
- Review: MEZE POET
Spectacular looks meet sparkling sonics in these Romanian planar-magnetic beauties. What airy wonders do they reveal, for their A$3499 pricing?
MORE REVIEWS...
- MARANTZ HORIZON wireless speaker
Luxurious materials and a remarkable design differentiate Marantz’s wireless speaker costing A$6500 (+A$1500 for the stand). Does it repay the price?
- KALEIDESCAPE TERRA PRIME + STRATO C 4K movie server + player
The premium movie server system is now ‘officially’ available in Australia, including a local movie store. We test a two-box server and player solution.
- VIEWSONIC V57-4K projector
It’s a ‘lumen king’ using a higher level of DLP projection than rivals to achieve higher brightness and overcome ambient light conditions.
- TANNOY SGM 10 stereo loudspeakers
These ‘heritage’-look speakers are developed from studio models and certainly have some quirks, but their sound can take on all modern challengers.
MORE FEATURES...
- TOP TVs & TV TECH FOR 2025
Advanced OLED panels arrive, but Mini LED has an RGB variation waiting in the wings. Is 8K coming or going? And will 3D return to TV?
- comment
ONE EAR ON THE FUTURE
The Editor looks forward to understanding whatever you’re all saying.
- show reports
HIGH-END MUNICH SHOW REPORT
From 2026, the HIGH END Show will move to Vienna, so there was much tearful sloshing of steins amid the usual collection of horns and sounds to celebrate the final Munich show.
- AUSTRALIAN Hi-FI SHOW, SYDNEY
Three days of Sydney sunshine, four floors of hi-fi and AV on song: here’s our full report of all the joys from this year’s Sydney show.
- countdown
THE BEST MOVIES OF THE 1980s!
From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Dogs in Space’, these are the 1980s movies that will get your home cinema back to the 1980s. Bring your own Spandex...
- classic movie scene
E.T.’s FLYING BICYCLE
Spielberg was riffing on the imaginary friend of his youth, but when Elliott’s bicycle took to the skies he created a scene that cinemas cheered.
- music stars
KATE BUSH
We look back at the original Kate Bush tour of 1979, her first and only time on the road until her residency London concerts 35 years later.
- NEWS
Marantz announces surprise two-box AV; Harman buys all Masimo Consumer brands; Electrocompaniet gets knobby; Rega goes digital with its Mk7 Brio amp; Melbourne gets a new AV experience store; Qobuz Connect debuts on loads of kit; Krix reveals its biggest ever subwoofer; Triangle effects speaker goes both ways; Blu-ray news: Pioneer stops, Sony goes...
It's all in #362 of Sound+Image, out now in print at newsagents and as a digital issue through Apple, Google, Readly, Zinio. Libby and more!
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