Noel Keywood listens to the Klipsch Heresy IV loudspeaker, a design that harks back to the past. Read our KLIPSCH HERESY IV Review. Klipsch (USA) specifically feature a valve amplifier and old motorbike in their website pics of this loudspeaker. So we’re sort-of talking past values here – but not really. The Heresy IV (£) … Read more
Optoma’s conventional 4K projector might lack the allure of its UST siblings, but a laser engine, flexible setup and punchy performance mean it’s still a bright buy, says Steve May. Read our Optoma UHZ50 Review. WE’VE SEEN PROJECTORS adopt a variety of form factors of late, from UST models to Samsung’s novel portable Freestyle. Optoma’s … Read more
Mark Craven samples the expansive sound – and specification – of an upper-tier nine-channel AV receiver. Read our YAMAHA RX-A6A Review. As part of Yamaha’s flagship Aventage receiver lineup, the RX-A6A promises to put everything the storied audio brand knows about movie sound into one, feature-packed box. Priced £, this is a big brooding beast … Read more
The Flip 6 doesn’t sound dialled back in sound quality, it really belts it out! You can fully customise the equaliser functions through the JBL Portable app and it boasts 12 hours of playback on a full charge – and when it starts to get low, the app will tell you that as well. A carry string and IP67 rating make it perfect for the great outdoors.
JVC’s ’entry-level’ native 4K laser PJ lacks serious competition – Steve Withers wonders if it might be in a class of its own. Read our JVC DLA-NZ7 Review. Standing proud JVC has been wowing projector fans recently with its native 4K images, laser-powered lighting, class-leading blacks and dynamic HDR tone mapping, but the cost of admission ain’t … Read more
Based on Vertere’s flagship RG-1 Reference Groove turntable, there’s a host of innovation in the brand’s new SG-1 Super Groove. Read our Vertere SG-1/SG-1 PTA HB Review. Anyone who has followed Vertere’s founder Touraj Moghaddam, all the way back to the early days of Roksan, cannot fail to have been impressed with his iconoclasm. A lifetime later, … Read more
Acoustic Energy’s smallest floorstander has received a full reworking and Ed Selley has been giving it a shake down. Read our Acoustic Energy AE1092 Review. Small, yet affordable floorstanders are a type of speaker that really should be more successful than they seem to be. A speaker that needs no additional furniture involved in its … Read more
If you think that all Italian speakers have a certain look and sound, Rosso might make you think again reckons DavidVivian. Read our Rosso Fiorentino Pienza 2 Review. Italianate. That’s a word I haven’t written in a long while. Back in my early days as a motoring journalist, when adjustable steering columns were the preserve … Read more
Panasonic has produced some brilliant OLED TVs, but this is the first one that’s smaller than 50in across the diagonal. But let’s face it it, this 48in model will be big enough for most modestly-sized living rooms, and its smaller size helps make this the first Panasonic OLED TV priced below £. Read our Panasonic TX-48JZ980 Review. The TX-48JZ980 manages to squeeze … Read more
IF YOU INVITE the neighbours to watch Turning Red on your new LG ‘CineBeam’ HU715Q projector, will they leave an envious shade of green? I reckon so. The Korean company’s take on the (slowly) evolving ‘laser TV’ market is delightfully impressive. Read our LG HU715Q Review. Clearly hoping to muscle out sector rivals including Optoma … Read more
WHEN IT COMES to making beautiful audio products, Italian manufacturer Sonus faber has an impeccable track record. Therefore, its move into the wireless speaker category comes with some aesthetic expectations. Read our Sonus faber Omnia Review. In other words, there was no way the Omnia was going to be a bland, black box. Okay, you can … Read more
Easily the most striking design here, this has a retro-futuristic sense of glamour to it. Cabasse would argue that form follows function; the boxy fibreboard cabinets of its rivals are far from ideal sonically, of course. However, the compact size of the Pearl Akoya means there’s not a lot of internal cabinet volume to play … Read more