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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 […]
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When a portable can double as a major music source
Now here’s a concept; a portable that, when at home, can take the place of a damn fine CD player. Load it with FLAC files at full CD quality and […]
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Sony gets into stills
Sony has been making movie cameras since video was invented and this heritage has been reflected in its still cameras, but lately the company has been consciously trying to master […]
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Hey… but it sounds great.
I dunno. I guess It’s kind of reassuring that the app for Dynaudio’s new portable speaker, the Music-1, is not so great. Dynaudio has always put sound quality first and […]
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Digital to analogue conversion done properly
Unboxing is something of a ritual for hi fi enthusiasts. We sink our money into a piece of equipment, bring it home and savour that special moment of taking it […]
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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 […]