Recent content by Jez Ford

Thanks Rich - haven't watched that, I'll give it a go. With subtitles! It's handy that Netflix seems to remember your preference by SHOW, not universally across Netflix. e,g, whenever I go back to Tour de France, it knows I want the French with subtitles, but it doesn't then play everything else...

And mono!

Cheers, and yes, this was by no means a pro-Dolby article; there's much love among both consumers and industry for the efforts of DTS in quality terms... it's just struggling on quantity in the streaming market at present. Thanks for posting. Cheers, Jez

Woah there, your reply is long than my article! Some great stuff in there. I was perhaps too dismissive of psychoacoustic surround; some of the side-firing soundbars etc can certainly push things very wide; Sennheiser's Ambeo is the prime example, but I had a fairly lowly Hisense bar in for...

Many thanks for your kind words - yes, the Q950A is about as good as soundbars get; that's a Sound+Image award-winner! Nice kit pairing there; never be afraid to mix brands, even fierce competitors! And good point, the higher the kit, the more you need the codecs, as the better you can...

With Tim, I was at What HiFi? with Andy in the 1990s, when we were bringing all the writing in-house and building listening rooms and setting up a style and workflow for the magazine which Andy, Ketan, Jonathan, Joe and the rest of the current team has maintained and evolved ever since. I miss...