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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

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