Recent Posts
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Leaking batteries are back.
Back in 2012 I wrote about the return of battery leakage and the situation was summed up by the editor of a tech magazine who told me; “If it’s not […]
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Headphones: When good is too good.
A 21-year-old friend – that is, someone raised on MP3 and earbuds – asked about headphones recently. This is a woman who is studying music and voice at one of […]
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This is why there’s so much jazz on 78s.
Just how far can the retro thing go? I was perfectly happy to see vinyl records make a comeback, that made sense. They sound great, the technology is delightful and […]
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Serious bass. Slightly less serious volume.
Occasionally there are circumstances under which a desire for sound quality is indisputably outweighed by the quest for volume. I may be speaking hi fi heresy here but I know […]
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Apartment living and good music. Not mutually exclusive.
Almost 2.5 million Australians, or about 10 per cent of the population, spent the night of August 9, 2016 in an apartment. That was when the last census was taken […]
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Sony’s WM1A blows a flugel like a dream.
If you’ve never heard of a flugelhorn you’ve probably never heard of Chuck Mangione, very possibly the world’s most successful flugel player. A flugelhorn looks like a trumpet but the […]
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Good conversation, good music, and what you’re missing out on.
Early this year I wrote about my great idea for hearing aids; make them look like cordless earbuds. The expensive problems of miniaturisation would be largely eliminated and people with […]
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How to get into your gran’s good books.
What’s the point of buying a digital radio? My mate Bob works in radio and he can’t see one despite his excitement when it was first mooted 20 years ago. […]
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Symphonic warning.
The current model Subaru Outback enrages me. If this column sounds like it could become tiresome because it’s about cars and not audio, stick with me; It’s actually about a […]
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How to get to sleep in a house full of noise.
I once lived under a flightpath in inner-western Sydney. Ah, those were the good old days, I was bulletproof when it came to sleeping. I now live in a much […]