Pioneer LX01BD Expert Reviews

If you can afford it, the LX01BD Blu-ray player with surround-sound speaker system will prove well worth your cash. Disc load times are excruciatingly slow but it's a beautiful and cleverly designed package that offers fantastic picture and sound ...

Great design ; excellent picture and sound quality ; pleasant to use ; offers everything you need to start appreciating high-definition content ; great audio-codec support

Pricey ; very slow to load discs

After spending just a few minutes using the Pioneer LX01BD, we totally fell in love with it. There's plenty of power here for filling an average-sized room with sound, the picture quality is stunning and the audio system can understand almost every ...

I have always fancied a dodecahedron in the living room, but I confess I was thinking perhaps some objet d'art, or even a light fitting, rather than speakers. For it is an irregular 12-sided polygon (and no parrot jokes), upon which the satellite ...

Pioneer is renowned in the audio-visual world for creating some of the best High-Definition equipment in the market. Its latest

We don't pretend not to be shallow. We like our gadgets to look as good as an electronic Angelina Jolie, and this is one of the best-looking Blu-ray systems around. The Pioneer is a gorgeously glossy setup with tiny satellite speakers, a minimalist ...

Despite its lofty price tag, the LX01BD conforms only to Blu-ray Profile 1.1 standards, and cannot connect to the web for BD-Live bonus features. Nor can it deliver a full 7.1-channel surround sound experience, instead supplying 4.1 audio through four ...

We'd hope it would deliver more, but at this price (and given how the market has moved on) it's not rounded enough for us

Lovely picture performance ; excellent specification ; very convenient, stylish and easy to accommodate

Sound badly lacks focus and punch ; not much midrange to speak of ; not cheap