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Wilson Benesch Trinity, £4,700
This is a deceptive looking speaker. It's not a three-way - that top drive unit is a supertweeter. Nor is it a standmount, because that integral stand holds the crossover and more. The WB1 drive unit is made from carbon fibre, the cabinet uses a 10mm thick alloy baffle with an internal steel chassis, plus compression mounting to the rear of the chassis. All of which makes this the ultimate engineer's speaker… and a perfect match for the company's distinctive Torus subwoofer.
SIM2 C3X Evolution, £13,000
The fully updated top of the home cinema SIM2 range is a three-chip DLP projector that copes with 1080p images at 24 frames per second and sports a powerful 250-watt lamp. Despite this, the projector is surprisingly small and light. Better still, with a huge anamorphic lens on the front of the projector, it delivers performance better than anything you've ever seen in the home.
Pioneer PD-D6-J, £450
Pioneer is fast becoming the achromatic lord of darkness with its 'none more black' Kuro concept for hi-fi and home cinema. The company recently added two stereo SACD/CD players to its high profile stereo electronics range, including the EISA-winning PD-D6-J player. It doesn't sound as dark as it looks.
Mission 790, c£450
The new entry-level to the 79-Series, the two-way 790 standmount speaker, is still in the final stages of development, but may be the perfect product to put the once-popular speaker series back on top once more. The reflex-loaded seven-litre box speaker is claimed to deliver sound from 65Hz-20kHz.
Naim CD5i £850 and Nait 5i, £725
Naim Audio has revamped its entry-level CD player and amplifier. The redesigned player sports a new DAC and power supply, while the amplifier now features a mini-jack input for an iPod and a beefed up 50-watt power output. You can tell them apart from the previous models easily… the new ones have an italic 'i' as a suffix, where the older ones just had the 'i' in Roman script. Radical, eh?
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