July 24, 2024
A STAR IS BORN!
The launch review of Primare’s new SP25 Prisma home cinema pre-amp/processor has returned a ‘Best Buy’ verdict from the UK’s first and most enduring specialist home cinema magazine, Home Cinema Choice. The detailed review by Ed Mark Craven says the SP25 “seems completely at ease dispensing stereo and multichannel soundtracks, with nothing sounding jarring or out of place to shatter your sense of enjoyment. There’s a clean, smooth, absorbing air to its performance that, while
July 23, 2024
A BEST BUY AT £5K? MUST BE A PERLISTEN!
To say Home Cinema Choice ed Mark Craven was impressed by Perlisten’s new R18 sub would be an understatement. Awarding a ‘Best Buy’ badge in the August 24 issue he says: “Perlisten’s subwoofer sounded borderline bonkers at times, delivering film LFE with grin-inducing levels of slam, depth and scale…the R18’s bass sounding big in a way that other subwoofers just don’t. A real ‘home cinema’ subwoofer, Perlisten’s R18s makes use of its 18in driver to
Following no fewer than four EISA awards, group test wins and Product of the Year accolades, System Audio’s WiSA enabled speakers continue to champion the benefits of high-performance wireless operation. The latest acclaim for the beautifully compact Silverback 1 system appears in a group test from Hi Fi Choice August 24 issue. Emerging as the best compact system, it “defies reason, delivering a cavernous soundstage that bears no relation to its dinky dimensions…The SB1’s is
July 4, 2024
“COULD SWEAR I HAD SURROUNDS IN PLAY”!
Hi Fi superfan Giancarlo Massironi at The Speaker Shack has fallen for Perlisten once again, this time it’s the stand-mounted S4bs that have inspired a Reference badge. He says: “what amazes me is how the speakers simply disappear…such is the transparency and resolution of the music being played…the soundstage is vast and just like the R7t speakers, the DPC array manages to create convincing 3D images… one of the most satisfying musical experiences at this
June 24, 2024
THE EMOTIVA MR1 IS “A BEAST OF AN AVR”!
Home Cinema Choice scribe Martin Dew has discovered immersive, cohesive and alluring movie playback from the MR1. In the July 24 issue he says: “Wired up and calibrated, the MR1 produced a vivid and colourful soundstage from Blu-rays and streamed media. Even in the quieter moments there was a lovely cinematic spaciousness and tonally smooth quality to the sound. The MR1 handled the transition to the devastating Soyuz capsule re-entry scene in Gravity (Blu-ray) with