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And Pioneer ensures you can connect almost every which way, with Bluetooth, AirPlay, DLNA and internet radio vTuner all part of the package. Spotify Connect is on board for direct streaming from the service, while HTC Connect creates a similar iCONTROLAV5 The newest version of Pioneer’s intuitive app features a cursor for easier navigation of menus, plus the ability to search for music from network servers handshake with HTC’s compatible One-series smartphones. 6mHz can be played via USB, or streamed.
While this sound is listenable as background music, we don’t feel particularly engaged. It’s a rounded performance without any particular Achilles’ heel, but needs more in the way of resolution and dynamic expression. We compare the Lenco to the Pro-Ject Essential II Digital, and it becomes clear the Lenco is not well versed in subtle negotiations. It needs greater refinement to make the most of Nick Cave’s poetic pensiveness, and the nuanced dynamic shifts as his resolve waxes and wanes. It’s also not all that insightful – voices and instruments could do with more texture.
The opening plane scene in Unbroken gives us more than five minutes of unrelenting crossfire, and we find each shot lacks the solidity and wallop afforded by its Sony and Pioneer peers. There’s less detail too: you don’t feel that every movement in the cockpit is quite seeping through, and the urgency and exasperation of the men’s voices isn’t as well communicated. Effects falling into the lower treble bracket lack a little refinement too, though overall we find the presentation nicely balanced, with no part given undue emphasis.