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Bowers & Wilkins has celebrated the 25th birthday of its famed 600 Series by revamping the speakers for a new Anniversary Edition. We put a 5.1 system through its paces to see whether these affordable cabinets are audio stars…

Also on the test bench is Humax’s Aura, the set-top box specialist’s first 4K HDR-enabled Freeview Play PVR – and with Android smart skills to boot. Is this the box free-to-air telly addicts have been waiting for? We then run the rule over NAD’s M28 seven-channel power amp; Sony’s laser-based VPL-VW790ES 4K HDR projector and XH9005 4K LED TV; active wireless speakers from Klipsch; Samsung’s affordable Q70T QLED TV; the SN9YG Dolby Atmos soundbar from LG; and more. Whatever your budget, we’ve got you covered.

On the software side, we check out new Blu-ray and 4K releases including Scoob!, The Irishman, 300 and the Back to the Future Trilogy. We also bathe in the brilliance of Second Sight’s 4K Blu-ray release of Dawn of the Dead, and chat to encoder David Mackenzie about bringing the dead back to life…

Elsewhere, we drool over the winning home cinemas and media rooms from this year’s CEDIA Awards; write out a Christmas wish-list of AV accessories, discs, books and games; take a tour of a reader’s cinema setup; discuss easy ways to give your system a boost; and weigh up whether a 1080p projector is a better bet for immersive entertainment than a 4K TV…

Plus all the usual opinions, news, disc reviews and competitions. Enjoy the show!