Discover two amazing gadgets designed to enrich your life– superb speakers that produce the purest sound quality, and a new zoom lens offering to elevate photographic standards a notch higher. 

Superb Speakers: New speakers elevate listening experience

KEF has introduced a new lineup of speakers to enrich the Q series with a further range of sound products that promises to elevate the listening experience a notch higher. This award-winning Q series, which has garnered such fine reviews, now features an innovative new technology in this latest generation which can eliminate 99% of high-frequency distortion, resulting in pure, natural sound. Known as Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MAT™), this technology should raise the bar in terms of acoustic output, producing high-fidelity sound for consumers in their own home operating a stereo or multi-channel home theatre system via the lineup of eight speakers. The 3-way Q Concerto Meta, for example, is the first three-way bookshelf speaker in the series and aims to make high-fidelity sound more accessible to more people. 

   The system is designed for many types of entertainment, such as films and all forms of music, and has a comprehensive range of features to provide listeners with that all-important immersive audio experience. For instance, there is an enhanced crossover design with a fine-tuned signal path for pristine, clean sound. The system features a three-way design for enhanced clarity and detail, and has a hybrid aluminium cone LF driver perfect for a deep and powerful bass. The speakers are available in satin black, satin white and walnut finishes. Priced at HK$9,980.

Zoom Away: New zoom lens enhances photos

Leica has just released a third zoom lens with an aperture of 2.8, the new Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 70–200 f/2.8 ASPH. This means there is now a trinity of zoom lenses for the SL-System with this latest addition complementing the Super-Vario-Elmarit-SL 14–24 f/2.8 ASPH and the Vario-Elmarit-SL 24–70 f/2.8 ASPH alternatives. This powerful series now means it is possible to photograph and film with a continuous aperture over the entire focal length range from 14 mm ultra wide-angle to 200 mm telephoto. Concurrently, the famous brand in the world of photography, which has accrued more than 150 years of know-how in the manufacturing of optical instruments, is also releasing another extender for the telephoto Varios with L-Mount. The Extender L 2.0x extends the new SL-Lens to a focal length of up to 400 mm.

For focusing it is possible to choose the automatic (Autofocus) or manual mode on the camera. The zoom lens comes with a classic telephoto zoom focal length, and is blessed with a high aperture ratio over the entire zoom range, meaning it is suitable for portrait shots and all forms of sports and nature photography. It has an electronically controlled aperture setting on the camera, although half or third values can also be set. Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 70–200 f/2.8 ASPH HKS$25,800. Leica Extender L 2.0x HK$$7,600.