Yamaha’s MusicCast 50 was the talking point of the recent Festival of Sound. As a solid, mains plug-in speaker it ticks all the boxes and is fully future-proofed to be used as anything from a sound-bar to bring your flat screens films to life to your Spotify, Tidal or Deezer accounts built in. It’s even compatible with Amazon’s Alexa.
We road tested the sound with Slipknot’s The Devil In I and the sonics were punchy, direct and unclustered. The drums absolutely pummelled and, in a large space, the sound was still full, clean and crisp. It could fill the Kerrang! office with sound easily.