Recent Posts
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Music underwater? There’s a catch.
An underwater Bluetooth speaker may seem like a neat trick for a pool party. Theoretically your friends could all dive in and, while under the surface, listen to your latest […]
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Into hi fi? It helps to live in Melbourne.
Australia’s two major hi fi shows for 2018 are happening next month and they’re being held on consecutive weekends. The first is in Melbourne and the second is, um, also […]
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Blue Lola headphones sound good, but aren’t blue.
Blue Lola headphones are available in two colours, black or white. But not blue. Blue is the brand name, an acronym for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics. But the company’s location […]
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Maybe it’s the room that’s your problem…
A friend has just split with his wife and his living room acoustics are devastated. Well I was devastated by them anyway, he didn’t seem to be paying much attention. […]
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OLED televisions: Picking the wheat from the wheat
I wonder if our readers think we reviewers are off with the pixies from time to time. For example we can say, without a hint of vacillation, that speakers costing […]
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Soundbar cogitation: The symptoms.
A guy at the gym has been asking me about getting better sound from his television and raises a problem that lots of our readers do; he has trouble hearing […]
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Lumix GX9: It costs less, but does less.
Panasonic Lumix DCGX9 You can’t argue the value of Panasonic’s new $1399 Lumix DCGX9, it has a heap of features for the money. What you have to figure is if […]
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Stop it! Or you’ll go blind!
Young people get it so easy. These days you have to be really, really unlucky to go blind whereas when we were kids there were dozens and dozens of things […]
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Triangle Esprit Comete EZ speakers – in plain English.
Loving French loudspeakers and not speaking French has introduced a degree of embarrassment into my life. I have always called Focal loudspeakers, from France, by their English pronunciation, as in […]
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Musical accuracy and remastered 78s
The first thing I listened to on Sennheiser’s $3500 HD820 headphones, connected through a balanced Pentaconn plug to the company’s $3800 HDV820 headphone amplifier, was Ginette Neveu playing the Sibelius […]