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Technology is getting cheesy
For some years it has been my contention that electronics are now so fast, so sophisticated and so reliable that their only limitation is our ability to think up new […]
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Sculpture that talks to you
Back in 2000 all the phones and answering machines on the market were big, clumsy and plain. They could have all been designed by the same bloke and if they […]
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Splendidly simple sound
Wireless audio systems are just dandy for background music, but if you listen to music in detail – if, say, you can pick the difference between Beethoven’s Ninth conducted by […]
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Smart lighting for dummies
A few years ago a friend had smart lighting installed in his house, a great idea for those that could afford it. But just now all that expense isn’t looking […]
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An old scam but a successful one
An old scam has just been given a new, digital age twist. Plasma screens are being sold out of the back of vans. It’s a rip off that began back […]
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Premium speakers
Greg Borrowman is nothing if not literal. He’s the editor of Australian Hi Fi magazine, and given that expensive speakers have been selling in surprisingly high numbers lately we asked […]
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Buying turntables
High end audio retailers around the country are lately all talking about a resurgence in turntables. For all you youngsters, turntables are the things that play vinyl records and they […]
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Turntables – all you need to know
There used to be lots of hi fi hobbyists. They’d spend their weekends and much of their income tinkering with sound equipment in search of anything that promised a fractional, […]
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Audio makers at last discover style
If Peter Bang and Sven Olufsen had lived to see it they’d be amused by the delicious irony implicit in the current home entertainment market. For decades the company they […]