High-definition surround sound for home theater, music. Easily connect your system over WiFi and enjoy control with your remote, the app, and your voice.
The Sonos smart home sound system Surround Set delivers all the music on earth, in every room, with warm, full-bodied sound that’s crystal clear at any volume. Sonos can fill your home with music by combining Hi-Fi sound and rock-solid wireless in a smart system that is easy to set-up, control and expand.
This 2-way loudspeaker features Focal’s exclusive Flax cone, character by its low coloration and natural sound, coupled with Focal’s inverted dome TNF tweeter. Aria is available in Black high gloss and real wood walnut veneer finishes.
“Not only is the IO-6 a wireless headphone design, it also incorporates excellent active noise-cancelling technology, adding to its closed-back design three modes of noise cancellation. As if that wasn’t enough, it then further impresses by adding best-in-class battery life to keep you listening longer – with up to 30 hours on offer between charges.”
Features B&W’s Diamond dome tweeter, isolated in its own solid-body tweeter assembly for precise imaging and clarity. Voices and instruments are delivered with purity and precision, thanks to the smooth, accurate Continuum cone mid/bass driver.
Designed in partnership with Meridian Audio, LG’s XBOOM Go PL7’s stereo driver array and onboard amplification – accompanied by dual passive radiators engineers a performance that’s outstandingly clear and transparent with vocals and packs a superior bass punch.
Part of Klipsch’s Heritage Wireless series, The Fives sets out to give a tiny taste of what it’s like to own a grown-up Klipsch without having to drop on the La Scala AL5.
Whether you’re an old-school wired-for-sound audiophile touting a 3.5mm-to-RCA phono lead, a smartphone-wielding Bluetooth dude, or a digital fanatic with a Tos link cable, you can make music play through this speaker. Plus The Fives connects to your TV via HDMI-ARC (Audio Return Channel), so you can switch between the audio sources hooked up to your screen (like games consoles, etc.) – in effect making it a superior sound bar.
NEW Vivid Audio Kaya S12 speakers on demonstration at SIX Audio Piano Black or Pearl White finish as standard, other finishes are available on request at additional cost.
KAYA S12 is even more an accessible way to bring the transformative Vivid Audio approach to the music you love the most.
The panel said: “Monitor Audio has built an enviable reputation for superb small loudspeakers, winning the EISA Award for its bookshelf model last year and building on this performance for its latest, sixth generation series in 2020.
They’re admirable performers across a wide range of musical styles, with a killer combination of bass weight and sweet treble from the brand’s in-house-designed Ceramic-Coated Aluminium Magnesium (C-CAM) drivers and a reflex port ‘rifled’ for smoother airflow.”
The panel said: “They’reactive, with dedicated amplification for each drive unit, and become wireless when you add the full-function Stereo Hub or third-party transmitter.
The panel said: “Sitting at the top of the SVS Prime range, this classically styled floor standing model is of simple design and construction, yet delivers a clear, crowd-pleasing performance not least due to its trio of 16.5cm bass drivers and rear-facing ports.
The woofers are drawn from the company’s Ultra Tower flagship model and ensures music driven by bass and percussion is always thrilling, just as the midland and treble are crisp and sweet.”
The panel said: “At the heart of the Chora 826 is a new ‘Slatefibre’ driver, for speed and bass extension, and the speaker has a sound that’ll make you want to keep on listening, with both bass weight, treble clarity and sparkle. It’s also easy to set up and position, will work with modest amplification and sounds good in almost any room.”
Acoustic Energy is bound to ping up on the radar. Its iconic AE1 from the late eighties pretty much made the case for the existence of the breed. The AE500 has little in common with this icon in technical terms, aside from its clear philosophical approach.
Despite being the joint least expensive product here along with the SVS Ultra Bookshelf – this is one of the with good-quality components.
The refl ex-loaded cabinet is conventionally shaped, but uses the company’s Resonance Suppression Composite material in effect, constrained layer damping. Its panels are 18mm thick and there’s a choice of piano gloss white or black, and American walnut wood veneer, plus a magnetic grille is supplied. Its rear-fi ring slotted refl ex port lets it work up close to rear walls. It’s of average sensitivity in this group not as power hungry as the ATC or Spendor.
It also comes with its own floor stands, each with four spiked feet, that bolt to the bottom of the handsome dark wood veneered cabinets.. Its woofer and mid-range/bass speaker driver, both equipped with the Slate-fiber cone, work in perfect harmony for a voluptuous sound reproduction and a perfect bass impact. The sound finds its full dimension in your listening room, with a dynamic mid-range and remarkable power handling.
The new Carina Elac BS243.4 series matches fresh visual elegance with remarkable sound to bring you what promises to be a replacement classic in ELACs lineup.Building upon its performance, Carina continues ELAC’s tradition of utilizing the JET tweeter, chosen for its amazing clarity, dynamics and attack. To match this capability, a replacement in-house developed proprietary compound curvature aluminum coned woofer is seamlessly blended via a classy multi-element xover to supply an organic life like sound experience. Fresh looks, fresh sound; the new Carina is destined to further enhance ELACs class leading reputation.
amongst a herd of rivals that s though to form a small two-way loudspeaker stand out, visually or sonically – but that’s the point with Q Acoustics 3030i. Rather than stand out as an acoustic hooligan, it’s a model of poise and correctness.
The planning approach employed by Q Acoustics is entirely conventional, mounting a bass/midrange unit and tweeter during a compact cabinet measuring 200mm wide, 320mm high and 313mm deep, the grille and rear terminals adding 16mm. With spade or bare wire connection depth is unaltered, but 4mm banana plugs protrude rearwards as always. With a rear port alittle amount of room needs to be left behind in any case, but not much – a couple of inches or centimetres will do.
The first thing you would like to understand about Sony’s WF-1000XM3 buds is that they sound fantastic crisper, cleaner, and airier than the opposite buds featured during this test, and with many volume level.
Sony’s sonics are boosted by the company’s remarkable 360 Reality Audio, an object-based spatial audio tech available via a compatible streaming music service such as Tidal .
The WF-1000XM3’s noise canceling was among the simplest of this true wireless bunch, and there’s also an array of customization “adaptive” ambient noise and sound-professionalization EQ controls available in Sony’s Headphones app.
The KEF R50 represent the premium end of the Dolby-Enabled speaker market. The high gloss speakers are a part of KEF’s R Series line, and have an equivalent Uni-Q beginning driver array.
A 25mm aluminium vented-tweeter and ‘tangerine waveguide’ sits at the center of a rigid 130mm bass/mid driver, encircled by a particular Z-flex surround to minimize distortion.
DEMAND D15 SPEAKER SYSTEM from DEFINITIVE TECHNOLOGY are certainly
in fashion, and it’s hard to imagine
many slimmer than Definitive
Technology’s new Demand Series
D15 towers.
Despite housing three 5.25-inch drivers (two carbon fiber woofers and a polypropylene mid-range), a 1-inch aluminum dome tweeter, and not one but two 8-inch side-firing passive radiators, the D15 measures just 6.5 inches wide and thus indeed requires its bolt-on aluminum boom plinth to achieve stability. Def Tech has always balanced serious value with serious performance, and the Demand series clearly maintains the tradition. But while the firm’s top-range calling card has from inception been bipolar designs, with both forward and rearward-radiating drivers and on-board powered “subwoofer” bass sections, the Demand series breaks rank, placing conventional, monopole , fully passive designs at the top, price wise at least, of Def Tech’s offerings for the first time.
ENCLAVE AUDIO CINEHOME PRO brings us to the Enclave AudioCineHome PRO, a 5.1-channel wireless home theater system that fully eliminates the need to run speaker cables to the rear surroundsor any speakers and does so with superb reliability. It does offer substantial build and sound quality, and is the first WiSA-wireless powered home theater system to achieve THX certification. Enclave may be an unfamiliar name, though some readers will recall Sound&Vision’s 2016 review of the company’sCineHomeHD WiSA system (see soundandvision.com). That model was replaced last year by two redesigned systems, the CineHome PRO and the CineHome II.
Focal Sib Evo Dolby Atmos 5.1.2 3 SIB EVO SATELLITES, 2 SIB EVO DOLBY ATMOS LOUDSPEAKERS AND 1 CUB EVO SUBWOOFER
REL’S ORIGINAL 212/SE was a radical design, effectively stacking a pair of subs on top of every other during a single unit. Two 12in drivers, two passive radiators tuned to realize different sonic goodness, one very large amp and a cupboard that was likened, by my wife, to a glossy black Minion.
The sequel is usually a challenge. Building on the success of a box-office hit without destroying the magic of the original are some things the cinema industry is historically . Yet REL has set about making the 212/SX faster, more controlled, more dynamic and with improved resolution of fine detail.
Denon receivers has released AV receivers
with 8K video support although the headline
specification is arguably the
ability to pass 4K/120fps
content, an attribute that
makes them tailor-made
for the next-gen PlayStation
5 and Xbox Series X
consoles launching later
in the year.
At the top of the four new models Denon receivers the AVCX6700H, an 11 channel design rated at 11 x 205W via Denon's discrete monolithic amplifier architecture. The Denon receivers borrows the dual SHARC+ core DSP chip design of Denon’s flagship 13-channel AVC-X8500H. Format support covers Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, IMAX Enhanced and Auro-3D. Capable of 13.2-channel processing, it will receive a firmware update later in 2020 enabling DTS:X Pro decoding for 7.2.6 or 9.2.4 speaker setups.
