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“Powered by its built-in 1kW amp, the R18s performs much how it looks – brilliantly large in scale and output, plus able to dispense deep bass hits with authentic levels of slam – but there’s high-end refinement here too. And with adjustments including 10-band parametric EQ, delay and variable phase, cinephiles can tune performance to suit their room and taste. Looking to upgrade your cinema sound? Look here.” The Expert Imaging and Sound Association is

Bass supremos SVS had a surprise or two waiting for Andrew Simpson at Audiograde when he tested the new Ultra Evolution Towers. He says: “I was perhaps expecting a hot sounding speaker with oodles of low-end wallop more suited to home cinema setups than two channel hi-fi. And how wrong I was. Because the SVS Tower is neither of these things, making it a very enjoyable loudspeaker for long term two channel listening…this is lot

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

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