Sound and Image

It has been a strange 2020 for the hi-fi industry, as for everyone. While all shows and launch events were necessarily shut down, hi-fi and home entertainment have not had a bad year; indeed many retailers and distributors are telling me that they’ve

Bowers & Wilkins Australia has done very well in this year’s Sound+Image Awards — four gongs in all, including two for its wireless Formation series of products. This shows how the quality of product seems to have been unaffected by two changes of ow

HANDS ON with Austere ‘Clean & Protect’ We’re not usually much for recommending cleaning systems, whether fluids which claim to improve cable connections (as opposed to simply cleaning them), or cleaners for TV screens, for which dedicated solutions

The ultra-short-throw (UST) projector is not a new concept in itself, but over the last couple of years it has undergone a transition from a projection sideline to a genuine consumer alternative to a large-screen smart TV — although there are still s

Does the new Model 30 pairing of SACD player/streamer and amplifier herald a new era for Marantz? The exterior design certainly makes a statement, with a complete overhaul of Ishiwata-period aesthetics, and yet incorporating signature design elements

The UK’s Ruark has released a Mk4 edition of the R1 radio which was the original product that began the company’s change from Ruark Acoustics, making fine British loudspeakers with thrusting names like Sabre and Swordsman through the 1980s and 1990s,

For 31 years, since 1989, the Sound+Image Awards have been celebrating the very best in audio and AV, recognising the products which have wowed us over the previous 12 months of our magazines Sound+Image, Australian Hi-Fi, Best Buys Audio & AV, and A

This is the second product from Nura, following the over-ear ‘Nuraphone’ in 2017, and we greeted it with similar praise. Nura is one of several companies offering hearing-adaptive features — a hearing test is used to adjust the headphones to deliver

“Black-and-white engages a different part of your brain than colour,” says Mank’s director David Fincher. “To my way of thinking, the beauty of black- and-white is that it engages you in a formal way that is beyond beauty. It’s more substantial to me

You cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours. All you can hope for is to leave an impression of one.” So says New Yorker critic turned playwright turned script doctor Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) — or Mank, as he’s known to fri

It looked like a good idea on paper: Francis Ford Coppola’s musical fantasia could have been the La La Land of its day. After Apocalypse Now, Coppola wanted the musical to define American Zoetrope as an old-school Hollywood-style studio, with contrac

The winners of CEDIA’s annual awards were announced in an online ceremony hosted by CEDIA’s vice president of engagement and global development Wendy Griffiths and Australia’s own Paul Skelton, with the event (and cocktail recipes) sponsored by Bower