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Daily Audio News — May 13, 2026

Highlights: Sony's new Xperia phone is finally here – and it retains one key AV feature; We have pricing for the successors to two five-star TVs – and it's good and bad news; This new Irish horror is a terrifyingly good example of what Dolby Atmos can do; “He told us outside of the mastering studio, this was the best place he’d watched his movie” – listening to the 29-speaker home theatre system that thrilled an Oscar winner; The JBL Live 4 earbuds have a better case, new high fidelity drivers and enhanced noise cancellation

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Topic: Turntables

Paul Sinclair of Super Deluxe Edition just met the thick end of the Berliner Schnauze. His crime? Growing impatient with a Kreuzberg record store owner who prices CDs and vinyl at the counter using (presumably) Discogs or eBay rather than, y’know, before you get there. Sinclair’s impatience when – quite […]

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Hi-Fi YouTube is a show without walls

Topic: Other

Every May, the hi-fi industry would pack itself into the MOC Event Centre in Munich for High End, the world’s biggest audio show: to see new gear, compare notes and spend four days in varying degrees of agreement about what good sound actually means. That changes this year. In early […]

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