Best Buys – Audio & AV

Best Buys Audio & AV is loaded to the gills with authoritative reviews on all types of hi-fi and home theatre products, from wireless speakers to valve amplifiers, AV projectors and streaming computer audio – it’s a must-read for those looking to assemble or upgrade their home entertainment systems. By publishing easy-to-read, well researched reviews, Best Buys Audio & AV provides at-a-glance summaries together with detailed reviews by Australia’s most experienced hi-fi and AV teams from Sound+Image and Australian Hi-Fi magazines.

Best Buys – Audio & AV

THE JOYS OF HI-FI & HOME CINEMA • Soon you’ll all be hugging each other and playing board games. That’s a promise.

BenQ W5800 4K HOME CINEMA PROJECTOR • This is a full-sized ‘true 4K’ home cinema projector — there are no streaming dongles, no built-in speakers, just a solid projector ready to deliver impressive images even for large screens up to 200 inches.

EPSON EH-LS650B ULTRA-SHORT-THROW SMART STREAMING LASER PROJECTOR • Ultra-short-throw projectors bring a new level of convenience to bigscreen projection, with built-in smart streaming and sound systems. Add in Epson’s projection quality and sustainability practices, and it’s a winning solution.

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MARANTZ CINEMA 60 NETWORKED AV RECEIVER • Real home cinema requires a full room’s worth of loudspeakers, along with multiple channels of amplifier power to drive them. Marantz’s latest midrange ‘Cinema 60’ receiver brings the power — and a great deal more besides.

SENNHEISER AMBEO MINI, PLUS & MAX SOUNDBARS • These three soundbars each employ Sennheiser’s unique AMBEO technology to deliver large sound from increasing sizes of bar, either with or without a wireless subwoofer.

SONY VPL-XW6100ES (BRAVIA 8 PROJECTOR) 4K HOME CINEMA PROJECTOR • Sony’s latest projector shows the innate benefit of native 4K, in addition to impressive motion handling and easy set-up, plus one of our favourite ever remote controls.

TCL 65C855 MINI LED 4K TV • With sizes from this 65-incher up to 98 inches, TCL’s C855 series offers some serious TV for the money, with Mini-LED picture quality and Google convenience as well as sheer panel size.

DO YOU NEED A DIFFERENT PROJECTION SCREEN FOR 4K OR 8K? OR 16K? • As home cinema drives projection quality forward, Stewart Filmscreen explains why a properly-designed projection screen will not limit performance for the higher resolutions of 4K and 8K, even 16K.

TWEAK UP YOUR SYSTEM • From little things, big things grow, and in a hi-fi context, fixing those small things can let your whole system perform to its full abilities.

MUSICAL FIDELITY CLASSICS A1 STEREO AMPLIFIER & LS3/5A LOUDSPEAKERS • A classic amplifier rejigged from a quirky 1980s original, and a highly-regarded 1970s BBC speaker for outside broadcast trucks, now reissued in an updated version. So are 50-year-old hi-fi designs something to get excited about? Yes!

RUARK R410 INTEGRATED MUSIC SYSTEM • Ruark’s table ‘radios’ have long been delighting customers, but this unit from the new ‘100’ series combines the company’s classic approach with some brilliant new ideas.

JBL SPINNER BT BLUETOOTH TURNTABLE • The trendier and cheaper of JBL’s first ever pair of turntables, the Spinner BT comes loaded with a phono stage and Bluetooth wireless playback.

SILENT ANGEL MUNICH MU NETWORK STREAMER • Streaming from subscription music services and internet radio on the web, or streaming from files around the home: Silent Angel’s network streamer aims to deliver it all to your system — with perfect timing.

DENON HOME AMP WIRELESS STREAMING AMPLIFIER • On one level this streaming amplifier is the perfect way to power up a single room for music and TV sound. But thanks to having HEOS inside, it might also form just...