Recent Posts
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At last… the truth about second-hand violins.
Maybe you don’t know much about violins, but I’m willing to bet a dollar you know enough about them to answer the following two questions. Question one: What’s the most […]
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Audio and the red wine effect.
Begging your indulgence, I’d like to talk about red wine again. No matter how bad red wine may be, the second glass usually tastes a bit better than the first. […]
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“CD players are now called DVD players”: The challenge in buying a proper CD player in 2018.
CDs are dead and gone, right? So how come at one major importer sales of CD players are up 30 per cent on last year? It’s an increase that says […]
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Turntable heat fails to fire.
The market for entry level turntables may be hot but it’s going to take more heat than this to change some people. Take the guy who runs my local hi […]
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Nura headphones: Great idea that needs work.
A couple of years ago I wrote about Nura headphones, then at prototype stage. They were the idea of a little Melbourne start up that was seeking $100,000 in crowd […]
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How to blend beautiful sound with beautiful looks.
In the context of self-driving cars, cryptocurrencies and Alexa, loudspeakers are pretty damn boring. The base technology has been around for more than a century and whenever a manufacturer comes […]
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Better than going to the pictures, pity about the broadcast.
A home cinema is all about getting a cinema experience at home, right? Actually you can do better than that. I’ve had an OLED television in the man cave for […]
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Quadraphonic is back.
Quadraphonic is back. And it sounds great. For readers of more tender years let me explain that quadraphonic was the first surround sound system that got a major shove from […]
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Yamaha gets its groove back
Yamaha is getting back into turntables with three new models, one of which is right out there for a company steeped in the creed of audio excellence since 1954. Turntables […]
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Small package, good thing.
Sony’s new RX100-6 is an impressively compact camera. Hey, for the features on offer it’s tiny, and it’s well thought through with a screen that tilts from selfies to overhead, […]