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.

Well done everyone. • The Editor is constantly amazed by the achievements and value of hi-fi and AV equipment today, and delights in so many Australian winners.

Sound + Image

Cheaper ice-cream from Melbourne

Eclipsa to take on Atmos

Epson's 6000-lumen QL3000

Back to the X

AC/DC on deck

Modular NAD with BluOS

Immersive video

High-End rising

AWARDS Please take your seat • EVERY YEAR SINCE 1989

Audio-Technica AT-LP70X

Pro-Ject XA B

TCL C855 series

Viewsonic V57-4K

BenQ W5800

Sony VPL-XW6100ES (Bravia 8)

Yamaha Aventage RX-A4A

Marantz Cinema 60

Marantz Cinema 30

Anthem MRX SLM 5.1 CHANNEL AV RECEIVER

Krix LX-7 LINEAR LCR

Yamaha MusicCast 200

Ruark R410

Marantz Horizon

Dutch & Dutch 8c

Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO 'X' Limited Edition

Austrian Audio The Composer

Zildjian ALCHEM-E

LG Tone Free T90S

Bowers & Wilkins Pi8

Yamaha HA-L7A

Topping DX9 Pro

Soulnote D-1N

Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista DAC

Rotel A8

Onkyo TX-8470

Electrocompaniet Rena SA2

Denon PMA-3000NE

Hegel H600

McIntosh C2800

Halcro Equinox

March Audio P801

Richter Merlin S6plus

DALI Rubikore 2

Tannoy SGM 10

March Audio Ukkonen UWG

AudioSolutions Figaro M2

VAF Research Signature i93 MKV

Estelon Extreme Mk. II

The Digital Picture

'GOLD' alumni

Wavetrain Cinemas

Martin Moelle

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL • THE CHILLINGLY MEMORABLE SCIENCE-FICTION CLASSIC HIT MOVIE SCREENS IN 1951. IT STILL FEELS STRIKINGLY RELEVANT TODAY…

Klaatu! Barada! Nikto! • Three words that form the most famous command in science fiction and that have inspired countless pop-culture references…

SPIDER-MAN'S UPSIDE-DOWN KISS

JOAN ARMATRADING • The singer-songwriter on her latest album, inspirations, being a ‘band’, what her key was about, and meeting Nelson Mandela…

ALL THE WAY TO 11 • With ‘Tap II’ tipped for a 2025 release, let’s check 11 (of course) ways in which the original mockurockumentary changed the rock lexicon.

THE MOVE Message From The Country • Chart-regular Brum rock giants bowed out with offbeat gem.

RACHEL FULLER AND PETE TOWNSHEND The Seeker • Orchestral retelling of the Buddha myth resembles a 6th-century BC ‘Tommy’.

DAVID LEE ROTH The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 • A lesson in how not to conduct a solo career, in five albums.

NEIL YOUNG Oceanside Countryside • ‘Lost’ 1977 adventure, now restored.

JULIAN COPE Friar Tuck • Sarcasm and actual tunes as one of rock’s one-offs resurfaces.

GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World • Oft-overlooked solo album by ex-Beatle, now with added extras.

THE GO-BETWEENS G Stands For Go-Betweens: Vol 3, 2000-2006 • For true believers.

T. REX Tanx • The bopping elf boogies on.

The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin • Teen drama, Mellotron strings and spare sheets came together for a timeless classic which initially confused its own band.

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