Home Cinema Choice

Home Cinema Choice is the UK's best-selling home cinema enthusiasts magazine. Every issue features news and reviews of the latest home cinema equipment, from amplifiers, receivers, processors and power amps, to DVD recorders, speakers, projectors and flat panel TVs. Home Cinema Choice currently publishes 11 issues a year but reserves the right to change the number of issues in an annual term.

Welcome

Power up for Klipsch

Midnight special

Playlist...

Sony's personal theatre • Portable wireless surround solution wants to upgrade your smartphone

Baby brother for MF's M6x

Light and sound united

S-Series amps unveiled • Denon's new compact trio has entry-level shoppers in mind

At the 'plex…

GP500 is both a PJ and BT speaker • New BenQ beamer combines 4K HDR images with a 360-degree soundfield

Press play

Triple sub range from MA • New Anthra series delivers 'deep, controlled bass', says Monitor Audio

Wharfedale looks up • Atmos module added to Diamond speaker series

Evil genius • Touch of Evil: Limited Edition ➜Eureka ➜ 4K Blu-ray

Dolby Vision • Dolby's proprietary version of HDR is everywhere these days, but what is it and how does its dynamic metadata work?

Making music with Marantz and Max • The hi-fi and AV brand recently marked its 70th anniversary with a New York City bash featuring vintage gear, plus music and soundtrack composer Max Richter.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED • As another M:I movie treats cinemagoers to Tom Cruise's stuntwork, Team HCC throws a spotlight on some superior spy capers from Hitchcock, Spielberg, Nolan, Coppola and more

ON THE HUNT FOR AV THRILLS • Want to test the mettle of your home cinema? Team HCC cherry picks disc and streaming releases that dazzle with their visuals and stun with their sonics...

Top of the world • This attic cinema keeps its AV hardware hidden, leaving just bigscreen images and a star ceiling on show,

Double bass

TCL's bright star • Could this 65in Mini LED TV be the biggest bargain of the year? John Archer seems to think so

System with the X factor • With True X, Yamaha confounds expectations and delivers a truly immersive Dolby Atmos system that’s a doddle to use. It features a slender soundbar and subwoofer combo able to orchestrate soundtracks high and wide, plus small wireless rears that pound like a howitzer.

Push, pull and pulverise • Perlisten was formed in 2016 by a group of audio engineers, its first products coming to market in 2020. And those four years of R&D seem to have been well spent, resulting in a portfolio of rather interesting and highly regarded high-end loudspeakers and subwoofers. The brand also boasts the accolade of being the first to have speaker products awarded THX Dominus certification for large rooms. It means business.

Space invader • Sony is banking the farm on 360 Spatial Sound Mapping. A brilliant post-processing innovation, it allows for all manner of virtual enhancements to the traditional home cinema speaker layout, and is the big feature attraction of its new TA-AN1000 multichannel amp.

Light fantastic • The specification of BenQ's W4000i projector is certainly enticing. There's 4K HDR playback (including, unusually, HDR10+), a 3,200 Lumens brightness claim, contrast-enhancing dynamic iris, Android TV smarts, and factory calibration to the DCI-P3 colour standard. At £2,999, it looks like a potential home cinema bargain.

Loewe klang bar3 mr • This 3.1-channel soundbar is an enjoyable performer with movie and music playback, says Mark Craven, and has the functionality to expand with or without wires

Mini LED TV for all • Hisense has brought its Mini LED technology down to a bold new price...