I heard a 9.4.6-channel Dolby Atmos system in Denon and Marantz’s elite reference listening room in their Japan factory — here’s what a best-in-class system with tech from Bowers & Wilkins, Oppo, and Sony can do

Find out which movie provides the ultimate ‘AVR stress test’, and what a quarter-mill of home theater gear can do

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‘A total gamechanger for big bass in a small space’: I heard a groundbreaking new subwoofer driver that fits in a tiny box 6x smaller than a regular sub, but can punch you in the gut like it’s a home theater beast with its ‘powerful but tight’ sound

GSS Audio’s innovative transducer can put the power of a 10-inch sub in a box the size of a microwave dinner — and it’s designed to work in soundbars or wall-mounted speakers too.
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Sony didn’t learn from Bose’s good example: it’s ending streaming support for lots of services on tons of its speakers, soundbars and Blu-ray players — they’ll still work, but you’ll lose the likes of Netflix, Spotify, Prime Video and even Google Cast

Nothing online lasts forever, but Sony’s shutdown of services is especially severe, and affects over 70 products

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11 winning projectors to scale up your World Cup viewing

A first XI of projectors to kick off your watch parties in style — all tried and tested by AV experts.

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How does ‘virtual’ spatial audio from a soundbar compare to an actual surround setup? Someone built a mind-blowing scanner that lets you ‘see’ sound waves to demonstrate it, with the help of a stuffed guinea pig and a custom-built 8-channel amp

YouTuber PlasmatronX has created a simulator to test how different surround sound setups move audio around your room, and what can affect the sound you hear
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A guide to Sony’s 2026 TVs and home theater lineup

Sony’s 2026 home theater lineup includes the new BRAVIA 9 II, BRAVIA 7 II, BRAVIA 8 II, and Theater Trio. Here’s what True RGB brings to the table and which products stand out in the company’s latest lineup.

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I test 4K Blu-ray for a living and these are the 4 discs I’m most looking forward to in June 2026 — one of which I think will be ‘reference quality’

June 2026 is another stacked month for 4k Blu-ray releases — I’ve picked four that I can’t wait to get my hands on.
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The World Cup will be broadcast in Dolby Vision HDR and higher-quality Dolby Atmos using the new AC-4 streaming format for the first time — but only Peacock subscribers will be celebrating this victory

Peacock will be the first major streamer to deploy Dolby’s AC-4 audio codec in Telemundo’s coverage of the 2026 World Cup
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‘We definitely are also analog people’: WiiM’s CEO talks to us about developing its first soundbar, Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, why it doesn’t support Apple AirPlay 2, and balancing digital audio expertise with analog output

WiiM and Linkplay CEO Dr. Lifeng Zhao speaks to TechRadar about developing its first soundbar, Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, why it doesn’t support Apple AirPlay 2, and balancing digital audio expertise with analog output
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‘We don’t want to make a legacy AVR’: WiiM’s first soundbar is the same price as the Sonos Beam, but it’s bigger, beefier and has real upfiring drivers for Dolby Atmos — and we talked to WiiM’s CEO about it

WiiM’s first soundbar is a 3.0.2 system that can be expanded to 5.1.2 —and possibly more.

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