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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Sound + Image

Room at the top

Upfront & personal

40 years of fabulous flight

Stax goes round and round

More CDs for Pro-Ject

New Terra form

Wi-Fi vs power

Ten years gone • It's now a decade since Samsung revolutionised its soundbar designs with a new ‘lab’ in California. Its all-dancing range-toppers regularly win awards, but how do its lower soundbars perform?

Newbie oldie • Musical Fidelity revives another classic model number, though the B1xi amplifier is more a reinvention than a rebuild of the original slightly-controversial 1988 design.

35 YEARS AGO: MEMORIES OF THE B1

HOMEGROWN HI-FI • An A-to-Z of Australian audio

Atlas Harmonic

DanA Electro Acoustics

DEQX

Dellichord

Döhmann Audio

Vacuum hold-down for new ‘V’ models

Duntech

The Adelaide hi-fi cluster

Elektra Audio

LATEST NEWS

Elementi Audio

Encel

Halcro

Halcro Eclipse Mono

Holton Precision Audio

HulgichAudio

Krix

Kyron Audio

Kyron Palleon desktop

Legend Acoustics

Lenehan Brothers

March Audio

P801 monobloc power amp

Microphase Audio Design

Osborn Loudspeakers

Pantheone Audio

Redgum

Richter

Richter Merlin S6plus

Richter Wizard S6plus

Secret Chord Analogue

Record Restore

Serhan Swift

Serhan Swift mμ2 Mk II

SGR Audio

SpectraFlora

Celata 88

VAF Research

VAF DC-2S

VAF Signature i93 MKV

Whatmough

Colin Whatmough on the Paragon from Australian Hi-Fi, 2007 • Interview Edgar Kramer

CEDIA SMART HOME AWARDS ASIA PACIFIC 2025 • We're delighted to join with CEDIA Asia Pacific in bringing you all this year's winners and finalists from our region's finest custom installation companies. Standby for the year's best home cinemas, smart homes, and more!

BEST HOME CINEMA LEVEL III WINNER WAVETRAIN CINEMAS

BEST HOME CINEMA LEVEL III FINALIST MIRO SOUND & VISION

BEST HOME CINEMA LEVEL II WINNER WAVETRAIN CINEMAS

BEST HOME CINEMA LEVEL I WINNER LUXOR INTEGRATION

BEST HOME CINEMA LEVEL I FINALIST WAVETRAIN CINEMAS

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL III WINNER KAYDER

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL III FINALIST BRIDGER AUTOMATION

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL III FINALIST LIQUID AUTOMATION

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL II WINNER RYELEC AUTOMATION

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL II FINALIST BRIDGER AUTOMATION • ALSO FINALIST: EXCELLENCE IN LIGHTING

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL I WINNER KAYDER • ALSO WINNER: EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTATION FINALIST: EXCELLENCE IN NETWORKING

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL I FINALIST CROWN ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONS

BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL I FINALIST LUXOR INTEGRATION

BEST SINGLE ROOM SOLUTION WINNER: DENOTE

BEST SINGLE ROOM SOLUTION FINALIST: SHANGHAI SENTIMENT ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY BEYOND THE HOME WINNER: LIQUID AUTOMATION

EXCELLENCE IN LIGHTING WINNER: RYELEC AUTOMATION

Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes • Bowie left a classic song off ‘Ziggy Stardust’ to persuade Mott The Hoople not to split up.