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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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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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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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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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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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The hidden costs of owning records
I wonder if part of the appeal of vinyl is that it’s such a cool way to own music. Lots of people still want to own their music rather than […]
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Are camera phones killing photography?
I’ve never had much time for camera phones. It takes almost ten seconds to get mine up and operating by which time the moment’s usually gone. The image quality deteriorates […]