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Keeping electronic tabs on errant old folk
In his declining years my old dad lived by himself and he’d lost so much upper body strength that if he tripped he couldn’t get himself up. We checked on […]
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Surviving the centre seat in economy class
Almost always when you see pilots on television or in the movies they’re wearing green headphones with a DC logo and I’ve never seen these in the stores. A mate […]
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Bargains in big televisions
Our love affair with big televisions just keeps growing. Manufacturers continue to unveil bigger and bigger screens and we keep buying them. And we don’t just like them big, lots […]
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Ressurection radio
Old radios are always popular, whether they’re the genuine numbers you see in antique shops or modern reproductions. The benefit both the originals and the reproductions have in common is […]
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Why you need a good DAC
Digital to analogue converters, DACs, are in high demand these days but we consumers face a big problem with them. We’re being asked to pay more than we should. DACs […]
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Curved-screen televisions
Until flat panel televisions arrived we Australians were highly predictable television buyers. We’d pay a premium price, maybe as much as $700, for a big 68 cm television for the […]
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Can’t hear the dialogue? It’s not the television
My mate Bob won’t admit he’s going deaf. He complains that there’s too much background noise going on in television shows to hear the conversation and whenever we go to […]
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Television speaker bases
Unless you’re a devout audiophile, the type of person who pays $1200 for a record clamp made from “extra heavy black ebony root immersed in the swamps of Africa for […]
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Who’d pay $4000 to clean a record?
Four grand? To clean records? Well I guess it makes $1195 look cheap, but who’d pay $1195 to clean records? Ah, think about it. There are some wonderful records to […]