Your right to party
EDLINES It’s time for our annual festival of all things audio and AV, the Sound+Image Awards special issue; cue fireworks, dancing, hugging in the street, etc. Here we celebrate all the finest gear currently available to Australia in categories from teeny tiny earbuds up to unliftably-large amps and loudspeakers. We recognise also the best installations and home cinemas of the year. We announce the result of our poll for Retailer of the Year (p98), and present our annual Lifetime Achievement Award (p91). My congratulations to all the winners herein — 2022 winners, you’ll note, since this is our first issue of 2022, as well as our last of 2021. So I can also be among the first to welcome you to the new beginning of 2022, a year that we should…