Jez Ford

Australia, Sydney

Editor, Sound+Image Magazine at Australian Hi-Fi Magazine

Wanders a world of music, audio, AV and tech...

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WINNERS REVEALED! Meet the winners of the Sound+Image Awards 2025

1 month ago | whathifi.com | Jez Ford

Welcome to our 2025 Sound+Image Awards announcement! Up here on the web, it's a click-around affair – each of the Category images below links through to a set of winners, listed along with their Judges' Citations.
Krix LX-7 Linear LCR review

1 month ago | whathifi.com | Jez Ford

Sound+Image mag reviewThis review originally appeared in Sound+Image magazine, Australian sister publication to What Hi-Fi?. Click here for more information on Sound+Image, including digital editions and details on how you can subscribe.
Anthem MRX SLM review

Feb 11, 2025 | whathifi.com | Jez Ford

Sound+Image mag reviewThis review originally appeared in Sound+Image magazine, Australian sister publication to What Hi-Fi?. Click here for more information on Sound+Image, including digital editions and details on how you can subscribe. As soon as we heard about the five-channel MRX SLM receiver, we asked to borrow one. Our motives were two-fold.
I learned a hi-fi lesson testing Marantz's pricey wireless speaker: always look for a 'magic' button

Feb 11, 2025 | whathifi.com | Jez Ford

I am well into my testing of Marantz’s extraordinarily expensive Horizon wireless speaker – not the bigger Grand Horizon (at £5250 / $5500 / A$9500); I have the lesser but still large standard Horizon (at £3250 / $3500 / $6500, with optional stand).
I learned a hi-fi lesson testing Marantz's pricey wireless speaker: always look for a 'magic' button

Feb 11, 2025 | flipboard.com | Jez Ford

14 hours agoDegritter Mark II Ultrasonic Record Cleaning MachineIf it’s post-Super Bowl Monday, then it must be time for a good cleaning. (Work with me here.) Regardless of how you watched (or avoided!) the …21 hours ago22 Rare Vinyl Records Worth Big MoneyVinyl records have been making a comeback over the last few years, but we aren't here to talk about the latest LP in our collection.
Leica Cine Play 1 review

Jan 13, 2025 | whathifi.com | Jez Ford

Sound+Image mag reviewThis review originally appeared in Sound+Image magazine, Australian sister publication to What Hi-Fi?. Click here for more information on Sound+Image, including digital editions and details on how you can subscribe. Leica’s introduction in late 2023 of an ultra-short-throw projector, the Cine 1 ‘Cinema TV’, took many industry-watchers by surprise.
PHOTODOC: A Real Bug’s Life – in Australia - Science Illustrated

Jan 11, 2025 | scienceillustrated.com.au | Jez Ford

National Geographic’s series ‘A Real Bug’s Life’ returns on January 15th to Disney+ for a second season, this time including an episode dedicated to our unique Australian insect life.
This year’s best Christmas album is a thrilling Dolby Atmos treat

Dec 9, 2024 | whathifi.com | Jez Ford

I have waxed lyrical once before about 2L’s multichannel recordings, reeling at the immense immersive perfection of Trio Mediaeval’s An Old Ladyhall Mass in 2023, during which I fell for the Trio’s tingling vocal delivery of material both mediaeval and modern, and especially deeply for the astonishing sounds that emerged from visiting historical keyboard expert Catalina Vicens’ unique portable organetto. I never knew there was such a thing, and its tone was magnetic.
This year’s best Christmas album is a thrilling Dolby Atmos treat

Dec 9, 2024 | flipboard.com | Jez Ford

One of the industry’s best just got better. Sonos needs a win. A problem-riddled update to the Sonos app over the summer almost completely sank the …
Why Christmas music should stay on Compact Disc forever

Dec 4, 2024 | whathifi.com | Jez Ford

It’s coming on Christmas, as Joni Mitchell begins the song River, and everybody's having fun, as Slade noted in Merry Xmas Everybody. The lights are burning brightly everywhere, as Mariah Carey sings – although not in our house, partly because we’re saving electricity and the planet, and partly because we don’t play any Carey here.