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Sound advice on acoustic panels
/ Home entertainment, Home entertainment 101, Reviews
It’s an old axiom of audio; the biggest item in your sound system is the room it’s in. Experts invariably say that practically every room can be improved acoustically, some […]
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High Fidelity lobster
/ Features, Home entertainment, Home entertainment 101, Rod’s Blog
I have a number of difficulties with the Gamut Hi Fi Lobster Chair and none of them involve it looking like a lobster. Being a pedant, my major difficulty is […]
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The hidden costs of owning records
/ Features, Home entertainment, Home entertainment 101
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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Baffling Onkyo ironed out
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A reader has come up with a fascinating problem. He bought a mid-range Onkyo home theatre receiver and noticed that when he plays CDs through either of the digital inputs, […]
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Want a great turntable system for $1000? First, revise your budget.
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This is how a can of worms opens. A reader in Shepparton, Victoria, wants to buy his daughter a ‘record player’ for her 30th birthday and asks for suggestions. He […]
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This is why records cost so much
/ Features, Home entertainment, Home entertainment 101, Rod’s Blog
When The Economist magazine presents a story about vinyl records it’s worth reading. If you’re wondering why records are so damn expensive it’s probably because there are so few places […]
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Bitter lessons in how to buy an amplifier.
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You need very good ears to hear sonic differences between amplifiers of roughly similar price and power and there’s an upside to this. It means that if your ears are […]
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Psychoacoustic suggestion versus trusting your ears: the bitter truth.
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I recently had 18 solar panels put on the roof and a strange thing has happened. But first, some essential information. While I could afford the solar panels and the […]
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Soft dome tweeters for dummies
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There are some vexing problems with soft dome tweeters and I’ve been involved in one that was hard to believe. I’ll get to that in a moment but first; what’s […]