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Winter is the perfect time to settle in at home and try your best to ignore the cold weather outside. And this time together can be made even more enjoyable by treating yourself and your family to an enhanced home entertainment experience. Doing so ensures your home is filled with fun and laughter for the whole season, giving you even more reasons to stay inside and share the happiness and warmth. Better binge watchingWhether it’s the latest detective series or repeated viewing of a time-honoured classic, we all love a good binge watch. Especially when you can cuddle up with...

What role does a speaker have in the house? Is it purely for the creation of sound, or does it affect the aesthetic and feel of a space? As speakers became smaller and broke free from the wooden box they classically sat in, where they were positioned and their appearance evolved. Initially furniture-like, room-dominating objects, speakers went through a phase of blending in to the background – literally, when integrated into ceilings and walls – until their design followed furniture, flooring and interior decorations to become bolder, more expressive standalone objects. This is the age of the statement speaker –...

And so, it’s December. We’ve almost made it to the end of 2020 and, as everyone keeps telling us, ‘Christmas is going to look a little different this year’. Now is the time to double down on all the familiar celebratory rituals and traditions that mean the most to us, but also perhaps to invent some new ones too as we seek to come up with creative ideas for Christmassing during a pandemic. Here are a few suggestions. Put on a festive front When it comes to decorating for the festive season I’m not normally known for being either the...

Some advice stays with your for a lifetime. For me, it came from Alan Hazel, who was a few years older than me at school and one day, a propos of nothing, passed on this nugget of wisdom accumulated from his first 17 years on earth: ‘Always listen to Prince on headphones.’ He was right. Plugging headphones into my stereo to listen to Prince’s newly released double album Sign O’ the Times, a new technicolour world revealed itself. Intricate rhythms flittered from left to right; previously unheard instruments and strange sounds emerged from songs I thought I already knew. The...

I had to wait for lockdown to see the light. And to legitimise a purchase that I argued was necessary for my mental health. Because it was only after we’d been ordered to stay home that I finally got round to ordering (online of course) a hi-fi on which to start playing vinyl again. My reasoning: in this topsy-turvy world I needed something to look forward to. My wife was understanding. She needed to be when I splashed out on the sort of kit I could never have afforded the first time around.A Technics turntable and Cambridge Audio amp were...