In a nutshell, if Monitor Audio keeps making loudspeakers as good as this, Mark Craven will keep raving about them. Read our MONITOR AUDIO SILVER 7G 5.0 Review. Auditioned here is a multichannel system assembled from the seventh generation of Monitor Audio’s midrange Silver Series. There are, naturally, changes aplenty, but these speakers have a … Read more
Panasonic delivers a bright-room LED TV that sports fans and gamers are going to eat up, says Steve May. Read our PANASONIC TX-50JX850 Review. Panasonic typically lures movie fans to its 4K screens with cinematic image processing offering judiciously judged contrast and peerless colour accuracy. But for its JX850 line, the brand has taken a … Read more
Steve May ponders the value of Dolby Atmos, when faced with Klipsch’s Cinema 600 soundbar THE KLIPSCH CINEMA 600 puts forward a compelling argument for old-school sonic theatrics. With its distinctive horn drivers (a brand speciality), gutsy subwoofer and dynamic power plant, this mid-ranger compensates for a lack of Dolby Atmos and Wi-Fi smarts with … Read more
Denon AVR-X1700H Review – Denon’s entry-level X Series AV receiver is also its most advanced in terms of HDMI connectivity. Go figure, says John Archer Thanks to problems with first-generation HDMI 2.1 ports, the last year was unusually tumultuous for the AV receiver and amplifier world. The late arrival of Denon’s AVR-X1700H (sold in the … Read more
Arguably the toughest ask in the vinyl spinner retail arena is to sell a turntable for around £ that isn’t a Rega Planar 2 or a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Evo. Hats off to Edwards Audio, then, because that’s exactly what it’s doing here. Unlike those that have unsuccessfully come before it, this is a product … Read more
Sounding like something from an Ian Fleming novel, the Spektor 6 is the Danish company’s most affordable floorstander. Despite this, few of the company’s design flourishes seem to have been omitted on what sounds like a speaker that’s more expensive than its sticker price. Read our DALI Spektor 6 Review. It has a pair of … Read more
A true three-way design, the AE120 marries a 25mm soft dome tweeter to a wide dispersion waveguide. Read our Acoustic Energy AE120 Review. A single 110mm doped paper cone midrange driver is fitted beneath this, with twin 110m bass units placed further below. The former drive unitgets its own dedicated enclosure inside the cabinet; this … Read more
KEF’s new subwoofer is calling out for a slick nickname. From the brand that brought us the Blade and Muon speakers, plus The Reference range, comes the…KC62. This moniker makes it sound like something that’s fallen off a spreadsheet rather than what it is, which is arguably the coolest subwoofer I’ve ever had a chance … Read more
MONITOR AUDIO HAS unveiled the seventh generation of its Silver Series loudspeakers, which were first introduced back in 1999. These comprise the Silver 50 7G and Silver 100 7G bookshelf/standmounts; Silver 200 7G, Silver 300 7G and Silver 500 7G floorstanders; and home cinema separates in the shape of the Silver C250 7G centre speaker, Silver … Read more
Arguably more so than any other UK loudspeaker manufacturer, Monitor Audio seems keen to offer something for everyone. Across its four ranges named after precious metals and an alloy (Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze), it sells 16 different standmount/bookshelf and floorstanding models, stretching in price from (the Bronze 50 6G) to (the Platinum PL500 II). … Read more
A new arrival to B&W’s famed 800 Series is always an occasion of significance. Not only does it introduce technology that will eventually filter its way down to more terrestrial members of the range, but some of the ideas tend to find their way into wider speaker design too. This latest range comprises the same choice … Read more
Just like before, it’s yesterday once more. The wisdom of The Carpenters. Except, of course, little is quite as it seems. True survivors from the past like the LS3/5a standmount speaker – still being made to the original Seventies BBC recipe – are rare. New designs that evoke the spirit of old ones are increasingly … Read more