Category: Audio & Video

All your analog, digital and wireless audio through a single pre-amp 13 inputs and outputs including streaming from aptX HD £499 (about $685 / AU$985) Pro-Ject – maker of some of the best turntables available – has announced a new compact stereo pre-amp that’s designed to make today’s hi-fi systems simpler. The Pre Box S3…

Read More “Turntable legend Pro-Ject has a weird but wonderful new hi-fi box – it’s a phono stage, streaming hub, DAC, TV HDMI connector, and headphone amp all in one” »

Klipsch Flexus Core 100: review If you’re short on space, but still want to experience the wonders of Dolby Atmos, then the Klipsch Flexus Core 100 could be the soundbar for you. This 2. 1-channel model aims to supply “immersive, spatial sound” in a single, compact bar, using virtualized Atmos…. Check out the original article:…

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With the Sound range, it’s safe to say WiiM has entered the wireless speaker market swinging. Not only has it released the more audiophile-baiting WiiM Sound, but it simultaneously released a cheaper version, the WiiM Sound Lite. Given both are multi-room speakers with an unabashedly mid-market price, it’s pretty clear it’s gunning for Sonos with…

Read More “WiiM Sound Lite vs Sonos Era 100: I let these Wi-Fi speakers slug it out, and the showdown was far closer than I ever would have imagined” »

We’ve been fans of JLab’s original JBuds Mini since their launch – the teeny tiny buds featured high in our list of the best budget earbuds for quite a while. Now the company has announced the new version, the JLab JBuds Mini ANC, and after testing them, I think they might be the cheap earbuds…

Read More “I tried the ‘world’s smallest’ noise-cancelling earbuds — and the size isn’t even the most mind-blowing thing about them” »

The Audeze LCD-5s have a new planar magnetic driver for “palpably physical” bass response Redesigned for improved comfort and audio seal Priced at $4,500 (about £3,333 / AU$6,570) Audeze has upgraded its highly acclaimed flagship planar headphones, the LCD-5: the new LCD-5s headphones come with a new driver design for even more powerful bass and…

Read More “Audeze is upgrading its legendary LCD headphones range with its new SLAM tech for silky bass — these promise ‘mastering-grade precision’, with a price to match” »

One of the things I enjoy about being a journalist is that stories, ideas, and thoughts can come from all sorts of places: case in point, when on a date and discussing the topic of movies, it was presented to me that The Matrix is a ‘happy’ movie. I cracked a smile at that; for…

Read More “It might sound strange, but The Matrix is actually a happy movie — rewatch it to shake off the January blues” »

There’s a massive cold front moving across much of the United States, and temperatures in New York City are in the low 20s – but it feels more like the teens with the wind chill. I’m still rocking AirPods Pro 3 on my walks, of course, listening to Bruce Springsteen, but I’m keen to keep…

Read More “Yes, I’m nodding at nothing — AirPods Pro head gesture controls are that good” »

FiiO just unveiled retro-style on-ear mini headphones But with LDAC and volume/skip knobs on the earpieces, they’re also modern …and at just $29. 99 / £32. 99, I just want their extra time and their… kiss! Look, if you’re not channeling Julia Roberts singing Prince from Richard Gere’s hotel bathtub in the movie Pretty Woman…

Read More “FiiO’s retro headphones will make me look like Julia Roberts singing in a bathtub bigger than the Blue Banana — and I must have them” »