CES 2024 Review
Samsung’s Music Frame can be hung like a picture but features a built-in sound system!
It runs the webOS 6.0 smart platform, and comes with all the usual streaming services onboard. If you have a games console, there’s also an HDMI input. Brightness is rated at 500 ANSI lumens, which means it’ll need a fully dark room to look its best.
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Watchable audio On the audio front, LG also used a transparent OLED display to enhance its DukeBox, a novel vacuum tube music system. The panel provides a window on the system’s glowing tubes, or can add ambience to your listening room with digital art. In music mode, a pair of tweeters pop up from the top of the unit. It’s quite the design statement. Elsewhere, Audio Pro unveiled the CP20,
a multipurpose 190W active stereo speaker for music and TV listening. The CP20 can be used for wireless streaming, has a built-in MM phono stage, and sports HDMI ARC making it an attractive alternative to a soundbar.
can function as a stereo music system, or be coupled with a Samsung TV and soundbar via Q-Symphony, and used as rear speakers in a home cinema system. Not that every music launch was high tech. Disruptor Hi-Fi brand FiiO went back to the future, with the CP13, a portable music cassette player (pictured below). Much like a high-end Walkman of yore, it features chunky button control and a 3.5mm headphone socket but is rechargeable using USB-C.
February 2024
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Audio Pro unveiled the CP20, a multipurpose 190W active stereo speaker
The model supports high-res Bluetooth, Airplay 2, Google Cast, and works with other Audio Pro multiroom components. Two CP20s can also be paired to create a wider soundstage, using the Audio Pro app. I had a demo of the new model, and was impressed with both its clarity and bass
extension. It should appeal to both Hi-Fi music fans and those looking for something more than a cookie cutter soundbar for the living room. Samsung also introduced the Music Frame. An extension of its lifestyle TV range, the Music Frame can be hung like a picture but features a built in sound system. Two Music Frames
I gave one a listen, and you know what, it didn’t actually sound that bad. Sales of music cassettes are reportedly on the up, and this could be a great way for retailers to capitalise on the trend when it launches later this year, priced at £129. Retro hipsters will snap this up!
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