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Eclipse TD520SW subwoofer review
Adam Rayner  |  Aug 18, 2015  |  0 comments

Eclipse is the audio side of Japanese automotive technology company Fujitsu Ten. As a speaker brand, it is famous for its egg-shaped single-driver models, the Time Domain series. The design of these premium speakers isn't just for show – its effect upon the internal physics is to reduce back wave disturbance. And a single full-range transducer has no passive crossover, nor tweeter, thus no distortion in that crucial part of our hearing. In these days of bat-frequency super-tweeters there are those who deride the ability of a single driver to reproduce the absolute top tones, saying they are not as bright as designs with separate HF drivers. But then you actually hear the Eclipse speakers and such discussion goes out of the window. It's hilarious to watch someone get their first Time Domain experience; the detail and accuracy literally boggles.

Applying cunning enclosure acoustics and profoundly muscular motors driving very rigid small diaphragms works a treat for most musical frequencies. But bass is different. It requires logarithmically more energy and power to move a thousand times more air than a mid-band/high-frequency transducer. Yet essentially, Eclipse’s approach to bass remains the same. It wants speed and it wants accuracy. 

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News
DALI announces new Opticon speaker range
Team HCC  |  Aug 18, 2015  |  0 comments

Danish loudspeaker whizz DALI has announced a new seven-strong speaker range that will cater for both home cinema and hi-fi enthusiasts.

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Blu-ray
Society: Limited Edition review
Anton van Beek  |  Aug 16, 2015  |  0 comments

Re-Animator producer Brian Yuzna made his directorial debut in 1989 with this enjoyably gloopy mix of satire and surreal body horror.

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EISA Awards
EISA 2015-2016 Awards
Mark Craven  |  Aug 14, 2015  |  0 comments
The European Imaging and Sound Association celebrates the year's most desirable AV hardware
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EISA 2015-2016 Awards announced
Team HCC  |  Aug 14, 2015  |  0 comments

The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) is the technology world’s largest independent awards panel, incorporating nearly 50 specialist magazines from across the continent – including Home Cinema Choice. EISA has been running for over 30 years and its goal is simple: to celebrate the most desirable, highest-performing home entertainment hardware that you – the AV enthusiasts – will be spending your hard-earned pennies on. 

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Blu-ray
Exodus: Gods and Kings - 3D Collector's Edition review
Anton van Beek  |  Aug 14, 2015  |  0 comments

Following the downright bizarre misfire of 2013's crime drama The Counsellor, Ridley Scott went back to doing what he does best – epic blockbuster spectacle – with this lavish re-telling of the story of Moses. Every bit of the film's $140million budget is there on the screen for all to see, although some of the storytelling decisions that have been made serve to make Exodus… a bit of a mess when you get past all of the epic grandeur. It's no Gladiator, basically.

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Blackhat review
Anton van Beek  |  Aug 12, 2015  |  0 comments

Michael Mann's latest stars Chris (Thor) Hemsworth as Nicholas Hathaway, a former cyber-crook released from jail in order to aid a joint U.S.-Chinese investigation into a cyber terrorist who has used some of Hathaway's old code to bring down a nuclear reactor in Hong Kong. As the team cautiously track the mysterious reactor hacker through Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia, they find themselves a target in his ongoing campaign of terror.

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Unbroken review
Mark Craven  |  Aug 10, 2015  |  0 comments

Telling the real story of Italian-American Olympic athlete turned WW2 USAF bombardier Louis Zamperini – who endured and survived more than two years in a Japanese POW camp – Unbroken was at one stage tipped for Oscar recognition. Yet director Angelina Jolie went away empty-handed, and it's easy to see why. While handsomely-staged (especially the aerial combat scenes) and well-acted, it never really grips in the way that it should, focusing too much on hammering home the 'never give up' life lesson instead of nailing the dramas of Zamperini's remarkable tale. You'll end up wondering what a director like Oliver Stone would have done with the source material.

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Videodrome: Limited Edition review
Anton van Beek  |  Aug 08, 2015  |  0 comments

The apotheosis of Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's obsession with body horror and the externalising of psychological terrors, the worryingly prescient Videodrome deals with a TV exec (James Woods) looking for ever more extreme content to show on his sensationalist station. When he chances across a pirate broadcast featuring what appears to be scenes of real torture he becomes obsessed, leading him into a world of terrifying hallucinations and violent conspiracies.

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Fifty Shades of Grey: Unseen Edition review
Anton van Beek  |  Aug 06, 2015  |  0 comments

This saucy blockbuster tells the tale of sexually naive college student Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), who begins a relationship with hunky businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), only to learn that he is even more dominant in the bedroom (or, more accurately, his 'red room of pain') than he is in the corporate boardroom.

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