Sound+Image Special Awards Issue 2024 out now!

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Sound+Image Special Awards Issue

All the winners revealed with full-page write-ups on their abilities and the reasons they won over our judges:

Introduction, index & lifetime achievement

Turntables: four winners

Phono cartridge of the year

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Vinyl accessory of the year

Phono stages: two winners

CD player of the year

Wireless speakers of the year

Wireless headphones: two winners

Headphone amplifier of the year

Televisions: two winners

Home cinema projectors: three winners

UST projector systems: two winners

AV receivers: three winners

Soundbars: two winners

Hi-fi amplifiers: six winners

Standmount speakers: three winners

Floorstanding speakers: two winners

Active speakers of the year

Gold Award for Cinema Design

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buying guide
Our complete list of recommendations, freshly updated with
this year’s Award winners alongside previous winners still available.

It’s all in Sound+Image #356 for April-May 2024 – our Special Awards Issue. The magazine is available in newsagents now with its seixy spot-gloss cover, and digitally through multiple platforms, including Readly, where you can peruse Sound+Image and thousands more Aussie and international magazines with a 1-month free trial, then AU$9.99p/m.

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Sound+Image is Australia's no.1 mag for audio & AV – sister magazine to Australian Hi-Fi and to the UK's What Hi-Fi?, and bestower of the annual Sound+Image Awards, which since 1989 have recognised the year's best hi-fi and home cinema products and installations. While Sound+Image lives here online as part of our group, our true nature is best revealed in the print magazines and digital issues, which curate unique collections of content each issue under the Editorship of Jez Ford, in a celebration of the joys that real hi-fi and high-quality AV can bring. Enjoy essential reviews of the most exciting new gear, features on Australia's best home cinemas, advice on how to find your sound, and our full Buying Guide based on all our current and past award-winners, all wrapped up with the latest news and editorial ponderings. Click here for more information about Sound+Image, including links to buy individual digital editions and details on how best to subscribe.