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Electrostatic speakers for the masses
In many years of writing about audio I have come across both good and bad electrostatic speakers, but what I have never encountered are electrostatic speakers that don’t require a […]
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Outdoor speakers your neighbours will love
Outdoor speakers are finally getting clever. Used to be they were ugly things that were mounted under the eaves or ugly things that sat in the garden like giant mushrooms. […]
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The lowdown on headphones
If you’ve noticed that more and more commuters are swapping their tiny earbuds for full headphones lately, well we’re following the Europeans where according to my observations anyway headphone commuters […]
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Soundbars: What you need to know
There are two reasons television soundbars are proving so successful; one; they sound good, two; televisions don’t. Generally speaking even premium televisions have dreadful sound and it’s because it’s impossible […]
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Headphone love, and love ain’t cheap
I love testing headphones. I can spend hours pretending to be hard at work while I’m listening to my favourite music, and headphones are small and light enough to send […]
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CD players are alive, just hiding
Hi Fi importer Ralph Grundl describes the market for CD players as “steady.” But then his glass has always been half-full. CD player sales tanked years ago when people discovered […]
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Must-haves for vinyl tragics
When I bought my first turntable I spent almost as much on a stylus scale as I spent on the turntable. It was a beautiful thing, complete with an in-built […]
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Do large televisions spell an end to projection?
Are home projection systems, like the ones they have in cinemas, doomed to go the way of fax machines, VCRs and Palm Pilots; great ideas until better things come along? […]
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Highest fi for 12 grand; the options
Manufacturers of speakers have learned a truth they now hold dear – if it isn’t good looking it won’t sell no matter how good it sounds. Just maybe that message […]