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KEF R3 Meta Review: Still the Standmount to Beat at $2,200?
There's a specific kind of stubbornness in this hobby — the belief that a bookshelf speaker, no matter how well engineered, can't deliver real scale without a subwoofer bolted underneath it. The KEF R3 Meta exists specifically to argue with that belief, and after spending…
Sony Bravia Theatre Trio Review: Width Over Everything
Sony saws the soundbar into three and pushes the front channels out to the edges of your giant screen. Clever lateral thinking — but does it earn its premium-separates price? There's a recurring problem in modern living rooms that nobody likes to say out loud:…
JBL Live 780NC Review: JBL Fixed the Bass, Then Raised the Price
JBL's 770NC was one of those headphones that sold in enormous numbers while audiophile circles quietly rolled their eyes. Affordable, comfortable, with battery life that embarrassed most of the competition — but sonically, a one-trick pony. That trick was bass. Lots of it. Sub-bass you…
Bowers and Wilkins panorama 3 review
There's a particular kind of confidence required to sell a £899/$999 soundbar that you can't add anything to. No optional wireless sub. No rear satellites. Not even a second HDMI input. The Bowers & Wilkins Panorama 3 arrives as a sealed proposition: thirteen drivers, 400…
Bowers & Wilkins 707 S3 Prestige Edition Review: Is Santos Gloss Worth the Premium?
A decade ago you couldn't move for grey and white speakers. Minimalism won, monochrome ruled, and anything with visible wood grain felt faintly retro. That's reversed. Dark, glossy timber is back in interior design, and Bowers & Wilkins has read the room — literally —…
DALI IO-8 Review: Can a Speaker Brand’s “Hi-Fi for Your Head” Justify $900?
There's a particular arrogance to a loudspeaker company telling you it doesn't need an app. No EQ sliders, no firmware-gated "spatial" gimmicks, no companion software at all — just two physical EQ presets and a promise that the tuning is already correct. The DALI IO-8…
tvOS 27 Arrives with Hi-Res Lossless – and a Hint of What’s Coming in September
Lead Apple confirmed tvOS 27 at its WWDC keynote this week, and the box barely got a mention — a single slide, shown briefly, was all the stage time the living room received. The update is free, the developer beta is out now, a public…
Yamaha NX-70A: Yamaha’s First Wireless Speakers in 10 Years
Lead Yamaha used High End Vienna 2026 to drop the NX-70A, its first wireless stereo speaker system in roughly a decade — and it's not pricing it like a toe-dip. The pair lands in July at £2,587, which works out to around $3,500 / AU$4,799,…
Nagra PREAMP II-S: Mid-Tier Price, Reference-Level Trap?
Nagra has a habit of making "smaller and cheaper" sound like neither of those things. The PREAMP II-S is the first product in the brand's new Series II family, slotted between the Classic and HD lines, and it arrives wearing the most recognizable face in…
Onkyo Icon A-50 Review: The Comeback Amp That Split the Critics
Onkyo went bankrupt in 2022. That's not a rumor or an exaggeration — the company that spent decades next to Denon and Marantz on every AV shelf in America filed for it, sold its home audio division to a joint venture between Premium Audio Company…
