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SOUND + IMAGE magazine offers a comprehensive package focused on lifestyle home electronic entertainment. It provides easy-to-read information about audio and video equipment and how ordinary consumers can assemble extraordinary systems that look and sound fantastic.

Atmos Blu-rays are my new LPs. • But Apple might be about to change that.

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EISA AWARDS 2026-2027 • Here at Sound+Image we work with other technical journalists and editors around the world as part of the Expert Imaging & Sound Association, EISA, which for 43 years has presented its annual awards to the best-value and highest-performing consumer electronics you can buy. Sound+Image placed its votes; now here are the winners…

Leica projector no.3 • Leica has released a third projector leveraging the camera-maker’s special abilities in glass and lens manufacture. The Cine Compact 1 also brings a new affordable entry point to the luxury line.

VALVES VS SOLID STATE

Musical Fidelity M6xi integrated amplifier • First amp up is the new update of Musical Fidelity’s best-selling integrated amp, bringing massive solid-state power provision.

Fezz Audio Titania MK2 KT88-based valve amplifier • Now the valves: this Polish design aims to simplify the valve amp, improving ease of use and reliability while retaining the joys of seven glowing valves, not to mention three enormous toroids.

Winding things up

Re-enter the Dragon • Richter rocks the room with the re-imagined return of the Aussie company's famous Dragon floorstander, resplendent in an all-new Series 7 Special Edition.

ALL-IN-ONES • Convenience and integration are the hallmarks of all-in-one hi-fi systems and streaming speakers. But can they also challenge hi-fi performance levels? What do you give up by choosing an all-in-one (or two) solution?

Denon Home 200, 400, 600 • Three new wireless smart speakers provide our first options for standalone sound, here built for streaming with HEOS multiroom on board.

Primare Allt-i-Ett • Large console-style all-in-ones have a long history, but the modern breed gains from streaming abilities, app control, and all manner of cunning tech.

Yamaha NX-70A • A big secret at the Australian Hi-fi Show in Sydney, then revealed at Vienna, and now shortly to be released to the world: meet Yamaha’s active streaming NX-70A speakers.

JBL Xtreme 5 • It’s long-running favourite JBL model with us for its remarkably unboxy sound, and the latest Xtreme 5 has bulked up even more, enabling better sound than ever.

Private viewing • The classic ‘RS’ series of TV headphones is here reborn using the new Auracast standard to send TV sound to these lightweight headphones.

Level up your listening • The planar-magnetic ASUS ROG Kithara is designed for a double life: microphone attached to keep gamers alert and alive, or switch to hi-fi cables for music listening.

THIN LIZZY Thin Lizzy Deluxe Edition • Elemental debut from Ireland’s hard-rocking crew…

So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967-1973

BILL WYMAN Treasury • Old Bill motherlode.

BRIAN WILSON Live At The Roxy! Theatre • Unlikely comeback remastered and expanded for its 25th anniversary.

THE BLUES BROTHERS The Lost Recordings • Infectious but inaudible…

PIXIES Complete B-Sides 1988-97 • Not all B-sides are filler or throwaway.

In Through The Out Door • It would be great to say that their final studio album in 1979 saw Led Zeppelin take on the prevailing new wave with their own traditional fire. Sadly a lacklustre Page performance left this a mere semi-colon rather than a true Swan Song coda.

UFO Doctor Doctor • A chugging riff from new boy Schenker kicked off UFO's classic cry for medical assistance…