Make it TV on your shelf
Hi-fi meets home cinema with these powered bookshelf speakers. Will their expansive stereo soundstage be enough to unseat your soundbar?
£599 /go.stuff.tv/Ren
You might think a pair of bookshelf speakers are about as far removed from home theatre setups as it gets, but Kanto Audio says otherwise. The Ren system wants to be your first choice for movies as well as music, with an HDMI input so it can play nicely with tellies as well as turntables.
Most bookshelf speakers are boxy and a little boring. My review pair arrived in this very fetching orange hue, but white, blue, grey and black are also on offer. There’s just a (dimmable) activity LED, IR receiver and multifunction dial on the main speaker, with the other one completely bare.