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The lowdown on headphones
Everyone remembers their wow moments, and my wow moment in hi fi came the first time I put on headphones. The music was suddenly so immediate, so involving and so […]
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How to pick good equipment from bad equipment
The most important thing about buying home entertainment equipment? Tear up the specification sheet and trust your senses. Anyone who has ever shopped for home entertainment equipment has heard the […]
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Buying home entertainment second-hand
Pawnshops may no longer be the dark, foreboding places they once were but going into them can still be like entering a time warp. Audio equipment is always in good […]
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How to be stitched up in home entertainment
There are plenty of ways for buyers of home entertainment equipment to be stitched up and, while the industry is much better than it was, it still happens. An example […]
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Testing CDs
One of the most basic tips for anyone buying audio equipment is to take a CD or two of your own along, something you like and know well. It gives […]
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Great DVDs
What use is it having a state-of-the-art DVD player, a widescreen television and maybe even a full five-channel-plus-subwoofer audio system if you can’t turn people green with envy from time […]
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Australia’s first classical SACD
Maybe you’ve bought Medulla and you’re feeling pretty cool about having the latest from Bjork, the Iceland Queen. So how would like those whimpers, whispers and sublime whines coming to […]
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Valve amplifiers, Prague and heaps of heritage
Editor Borrowman makes it sound terribly simple. He knows I’m going to Italy, he knows I’m fond of valve amplifiers. “KR is the only valve amplifier company in the world […]
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Noise cancelling headphones – the theory
Eight years ago I did something I would recommend to no one at all – I spent three long days at a world championship car audio competition in Greenville, South […]