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Baffling Onkyo ironed out
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 […]
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What is a phono pre-amp and why do I care?
There are obviously things even clever people don’t think of when dishing out advice on turntables. Like phono pre-amplifiers for example, not to mention the delicacy of ‘phono’ inputs. Salespeople […]
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It’s time we grew up about outdoor speakers.
The idea of disguising outdoor speakers as garden rocks has merit, it’s in the execution that it falls down. Rock speakers look about as genuine as a $3 Rembrandt. I […]
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Headphones amplifiers – sorting wheat from chaff.
Late in 2003 I was invited to lunch with some guys from Sony who wanted to show me the world’s first ever one-gigabyte memory stick. It was a breathtaking achievement […]