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You may never need this heavy hitting record cleaner, but when you do it works.
Much in hi fi turns out to be more complicated than it first looks. That’s probably why I kept avoiding the Vinyl Record Cleaning system (VRC) that arrived for test. […]
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The speakers are good, the instruction manual is better.
Who needs instructions for speakers? I mean, how hard is it? Remove from box, attach cables, bingo. Ah, but then there’s Bowers and Wilkins. One doesn’t so much read a […]
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French freedom fighters ruined my first brush with Wagner.
When I was about five I was watching a war movie on the telly with my dad. It featured Nazi occupation forces driving a van topped with public address speakers […]
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At last… the truth about second-hand violins.
Maybe you don’t know much about violins, but I’m willing to bet a dollar you know enough about them to answer the following two questions. Question one: What’s the most […]
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Audio and the red wine effect.
Begging your indulgence, I’d like to talk about red wine again. No matter how bad red wine may be, the second glass usually tastes a bit better than the first. […]
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“CD players are now called DVD players”: The challenge in buying a proper CD player in 2018.
CDs are dead and gone, right? So how come at one major importer sales of CD players are up 30 per cent on last year? It’s an increase that says […]
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Turntable heat fails to fire.
The market for entry level turntables may be hot but it’s going to take more heat than this to change some people. Take the guy who runs my local hi […]
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Nura headphones: Great idea that needs work.
A couple of years ago I wrote about Nura headphones, then at prototype stage. They were the idea of a little Melbourne start up that was seeking $100,000 in crowd […]
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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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Better than going to the pictures, pity about the broadcast.
A home cinema is all about getting a cinema experience at home, right? Actually you can do better than that. I’ve had an OLED television in the man cave for […]