Great Britain has long been home to many excellent high-end audio companies, including Chord Electronics. One of its newest offerings is the uncompromising CPA8000, Chord's ultimate 2-channel preamp.

If $100,000 for the Force One DLP projector is too rich for your blood and/or you don't need to light up a 50-foot screen, Cineversum offers an attractive alternative—the new BlackWing Four LCoS projector.

If you want a really big picture, you need a front projector. But the brightness of any projected image decreases as the screen size increases, and after a certain point, the picture is too dim to be fully satisfying, even in a dark room. Many home-theater projectors can't deliver adequate amounts of light to screens measuring more than, say, 10 feet wide or so, but not the new Force One from Cineversum, which the company claims can light up screens as large as 49 feet wide.

During Michael Fremer's recent appearance on my podcast, he told the story about how he fell in love with a turntable he had reviewed for Stereophile—and how his wife had wholeheartedly approved of buying it, even though it cost as much as a high-end luxury car. That turntable is the Caliburn with Cobra tonearm from Continuum Audio Labs in Australia.

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Danish speaker maker Dynaudio released a special-edition model called the Sapphire in 2007. Limited to 1000 pairs worldwide, the final 30 will be wrapped in an exclusive gloss-blue piano-lacquer finish.