I didn’t get into home cinema and hi-fi reviewing to get rich (chance would be a fine thing); I got into home cinema and hi-fi reviewing because I love home cinema and hi-fi kit. Even now, seventeen years into my career, I regularly get that tingle of excitement when a new product arrives, and when I’m halfway into a review of something great, I can’t help but daydream about finding a way to get it into my system at home. I also regularly suffer from an affliction that may be familiar to many of you: upgrade-itis.
Regular readers might remember that when I moved house at the start of last year, I agreed not to reinstall my AV receiver and 11.1.4-channel speaker system in the new living room and that I would instead find something less conspicuous for our movie sound. After a couple of months with the Sonos Arc and a brief fling with a pair of HomePods, we settled on the Sony HT-A9 system, and the rest, as they say, is history.
