Sound + Image

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.

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Denon Home speakers go Atmos

‘xi’ amps from Musical Fidelity

Krix in colour

RECEIVER SEASON! • AV receivers arrive in bursts, as technologies change, or driven by production cycles. There may be hardly any new models around for ages — then, like buses, multiple releases arrives at once. Now is one of those happy times!

REL subs: slim newbies & renewed oldies

NAD keeps the CD spinning

Welcome to the 2026 SOUND IMAGE AWARDS

Audio-Technica AT-LPA2

E.A.T. F-Dur / F-Note

Musical Fidelity M8x Vinyl

Silent Angel Bremen SL1 Plus

Aurender A1000

Zoom H5studio

Denon Home Amp

Musical Fidelity B1xi

Arcam SA35

Accuphase E-800S

Marantz LINK 10n

Sugden Audio LA-4 / SPA-4

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Pro

Denon CEOL N12

Audio-Technica ATH-R30x

Audio-Technica ATH-R70xa

Meze Poet

Sennheiser RS 275 TV package

Nothing Ear (3)

Beyerdynamic Aventho 100

Apple AirPods Max 2

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2

BenQ W2720i

Leica Cine Play 1

Epson EH-LS670B

Leica Cine 1 ‘Cinema TV’

Kaleidescape Strato E

Marantz AV 20 / AMP 20

Samsung HW-QS700F

JBL Bar 1300Mk2

Yamaha True X Surround 90A package

‘GOLD’ awards

Hifi Hunter

The Digital Picture

Wavetrain Cinemas

Paradigm Defiance S12

VAF Research DC-2S

MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 8

Pylon Audio Jade 10

SpectraFlora Celata 88

Richter Dragon S7 Special Edition

Microphase Audio Design Tower 3 Signature

Leon Suter & Lee Gray

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