surround sound

Picked up the standalone 50th anniversary Blu-ray mostly for the concert, and I think that is the honest way to approach this disc. The Los Angeles Sports Arena show from April 26, 1975 runs 16 songs, restored and remastered by Steven Wilson at 96kHz/24-bit, and it opens with Raving and Drooling...

Someone asked this on the home theater sub and I thought it was a fair question rather than a naive one. Scroll through setup threads and you see Klipsch, SVS, Polk, JBL, Monitor Audio, KEF if the budget stretches. B&W barely comes up, despite being one of the best known speaker names on the...

The Rubber Soul Special Edition lands October 2. New stereo mix from Giles Martin and Sam Okell taken off the original four-track tapes, plus Dolby Atmos, high-resolution stereo, the 1965 mono and the U.S. Capitol configuration - though which of those you actually get depends on which edition...

What Hi-Fi has finally got the Q Acoustics 3050c 5.1 package into its test room and the verdict lands where these packages nearly always land. Agile, energetic, impressive bass, and then a centre channel described as middling, with a noted lack of consistency across the front three. That last...

What Hi-Fi went round the industry again this year and asked engineers at the manufacturers which scenes they actually reach for when benchmarking kit. Worth reading, but read it with one eye open. Harman's consumer audio side put forward the Impossible Race from Ready Player One, Shallow from...