Audio

Picked three of a narrow-pickup Sennheiser mic for the camera rigs, exact model unclear.

Directional and 360-degree garden speakers with buried subwoofers keep sound close to listeners without annoying neighbours.

Ceiling speakers and a subwoofer give the gym its nightclub mode.

Ceiling speakers with a wide sound cone that keep the room uncluttered and make a powerful setup.

Extremely expensive but a long-held dream purchase that gives huge, surround-like sound and a futuristic look.

Chosen as the best of everything he auditioned, and he calls the result the best sound he has heard in any cinema.

Supercomputer-like audio processor that enables tailored sound for each seat.

Used to stream music from phones to the Meridian system, which he admits is odd in the era of Sonos.

Wacky-looking earbuds with good software and clever tech, but uncomfortable and not worth three and a half times the price of the SE 2.

A generic, soulless speaker that is poor value at $130; scored 4 out of 10.

A fascinating AI stem-splitting toy with poor sound and awkward music loading; scored 5 out of 10.

Baseline earphones priced at $130-140 with misleading marketing; scored 2 out of 10.

Easily the best sounding product in the video, helped by Kim picking a good partner; scored a 6.

Earphones designed to look like vinyl records on show in your ears; he gave will.i.am a three overall, mostly for effort.

Not professional gear, but a fun toy that makes even bad singing sound passable; scored 5 out of 10.

Mediocre earbuds with an ugly purple finish and sound profiles that barely differ; scored 4 out of 10.

A powerful, decent speaker with a bass control that just tweaks software; scored 6 out of 10.

Comfortable, light earbuds with the best noise cancellation he has heard without ear tips, though sound is not class-leading.

Earbuds with a tiny Android screen that do neither phone nor earphone job well, and he'd still buy separate devices.

He calls it a strange product that seems to exist to get people talking about Dyson.

Sound great with noticeably better and adaptive noise cancelling than the base model, but the fiddly blades and max ANC level disappoint.

Great sound and controlled leakage, but the fiddly blade controls and weak noise cancelling hold them back in first impressions.

Light and clearly not luxury, but he thinks they feel sophisticated and intentional in their design.

A tiny desktop-computer-style speaker that sounds better than its size suggests.