Innehållsförteckning för 1/2022 från Home Cinema World

The Expert Imaging and Sound Association EISA, of which HiFiTest is the exclusive German member for the Home Theater/Video product segment, selects the best products every summer. In 2021, Philips was successful in the „Best Buy OLED TV“ category with the 55OLED806 and the „Best Home Theatre TV“ category with the 65OLED936. „Best Buy“ does not mean the TV you get for the lowest price, but the product that offers the best at a reasonable price. Because the 806 has a lot to offer. 55OLED806 The current 800 series from Philips is available in sizes from 48 to 77 inches. The heart of the OLED TVs is the P5 engine with AI, now in the 5th generation. A new addition is the sixth mode, „movie detection.“ The OLED TV recognizes…

The new „small“ Denon offers seven discrete power amp channels and two subwoofer pre-outs. Combined with active bass drivers, configurations up to 7.2 channels are possible. There is no lack of power. Denon specifies the stereo output into 8-ohm speakers per channel with 80W; we measured 118W RMS. At 4 ohms, our measurement system even confirms a whopping 165 watts per channel. You can play really loud with that - a lot of power for this price. Future-proof And the Denon not only convinces with considerable muscles, but it also does not need to hide from some more expensive devices in terms of smarts. It has seven HDMI ports, six inputs, and one output for a TV or projector. Three of the inputs are compatible with 8K resolution, and the…

Equipment: » Size: 4.1 x 4.3 x 2.4 m » Projector: JVC DLA-X7900 » Screen: 3.0 m in 21:9 » Preamplifier: Yamaha CX A-5100 » Power amplifier: Yamaha MX A-5000 » Player: Panasonic DP-UB9004 » Speakers: BM25 MK II, 4 x Canton Reference 9K, 4 x Canton In-ceiling 989 » Subwoofer: 3 x JL Audio Fathom 110, 3 x XTZ 12.17 » Other: Backes & Müller ICE 802 (DAC), MiniDSP 2x4HD, Niagara 1200 und HMS DCS (Strom) » Special: Bluesound Node 2i (Streamer), Buttkicker + Fisheramp My journey takes me to Bamberg to visit our HOME CINEMA WORLD reader, Gerald. Arriving at my host’s premises, I cannot even remotely guess what awaits me in the house’s basement. As it is pleasantly warm today, my extremely good-humored host first leads me…

It’s hardly surprising that even the somewhat bumpy device term „ultra-short distance projector“ is becoming „laser TV“ more and more often. The preferred light source here is a laser diode, which has a much longer lifespan than the UHP lamp that is otherwise still commonly used in projection. The color reproduction is still stable even after thousands of hours of operation, as is the luminosity. In addition, the laser lamp is easier to cool, which has the positive side effect that a laser projector can be much quieter in operation than its lamp counterpart. XGimi is not the only company to take advantage of the fact that there is still plenty of housing volume for installing a grown-up audio department. As with the mobile projectors from the same company, the…

Many choose Auro 3D; you have a Dolby Atmos setup. Why? I want to hear a movie as it is mixed and not with any upmixers. With Auro 3D, too much goes to the ceiling, and I find it unnatural. Dolby Atmos and DTS:X fit better because most current films have this format. Why do you not have a center? I use the cinema alone 95% of the time and sit in the reference seat. I find the sound much more homogeneous without a center. Everything comes out exactly where it should be. Even on the side seats, the voice reproduction works very well. The screen is not sound-permeable. What is the reason? I can‘t imagine hanging a screen in front of a 20,000 EUR speaker. Not because I can…

Metz televisions have long stood for the best quality „Made in Germany.“ In addition to the excellent image quality, the devices are known for their superb TV reception with dual tuners and good recording capabilities directly to the internal hard drive. Such quality and features come at a price, of course, and so Metz TVs in the classic lines are often a bit more expensive than those of the Asian competition. Under the Metz blue banner, the Zirndorfbased company is now launching lower-priced devices that are somewhat slimmed down in terms of features and do without a double tuner and hard drive. Instead, they rely on Android for the smart TV system and thus open the door to the streaming world. Direct LED For the display of the 55MUC8001Z, Metz…