A Celebration of 50 Years of Innovation - Linn Factory Visit
Celebrating 50 Years As part of the celebrations in 2023, in which Linn are celebrating their 50 year anniversary, we were invited to their class-leading factory in Eaglesham, a suburb about 30 min...
Integrated Amplifiers - Are They Still a Compromise?
Modern integrated amplifiers don't have to be a compromise on audio performance anymore.
One Week with the dCS LINA First impressions The dCS LINA has made it to our showroom! We were excited to get it out of the box on on demonstration as quickly as possible. The three stack LINA ...
How To Get the Best Performance from your Speakers
Speaker Position Matters Before you think about getting a new pair of speakers, you might be interested to see how much more you can get out of them before shopping for a new pair. Whilst it might ...
Best Bang for your Buck Over-ear Headphones
Best Bang For Your Buck With so many good quality over-ear wired headphones on the market, we thought we'd sift through a whole bunch of them and give you our picks for the best value for money he...
Acoustic Treatment - Our First Hand Experience in the Showroom
Our Acoustic Journey We've really been getting to grips with acoustic treatment in more recent times and refurbishing our demonstration facilities to show off the latest in acoustic treatment. We'v...
Review: One Week in with the Mark Levinson No5909 Headphones
We spent a week with the Mark Levinson No5909 headphones to see what they were really like. We know Mark Levinson really well from their glory days in two-channel audio, so how do their new headpho...
Improve Your Digital Signal Path with Waversa
If you're into streaming as your main way of listening to music, something that should concern you is the network infrastructure and signal path. A poor quality cable, network switch or connectors ...
Acoustic Treatment - What You Need to Know
The Frustration with Acoustics If you've ever looked into acoustic treatment, you'll likely be frustrated. You'll dive into a world of absorption and diffusion panels, frequency absorption charts, ...
Review: One Week with the KEF Mu7 Headphones
KEF Mu7 Review KEF's Mu7 headphones have been extremely popular since their launch late last year - one of the highest selling headphones we've seen in recent times. We thought we'd spend one week...
Everything You Need To Know About Projectors and Screens - Home Theatre 101
In this chapter of our Home Theatre 101 series, we invited Claver Harper, the Australia representative for many flagship cinema manufacturers including Barco projectors, Wisdom Audio cinema speaker...
Is A Home Theatre Worth It? - Home Theatre 101
Is A Home Theatre Worth It The demand for home theatre has never been stronger. Off the back of cinemas being more than just movies, but a Netflix hub, a gaming centre and a sporting arena, more p...
Summary Well preserved hifi from reputable manufacturers will retain value over time. Trading in your hifi can be an enjoyable and affordable way to improve your system over time. Just like cars...
Add Music and Lighting in an Innovative Way | Gallo Acoustics Review
Gallo Acoustics have been producing speakers for decades. Building upon the core foundation that Anthony Gallo started with his spherical cabinet design, the modern take on Gallo Acoustics incorpo...
If you've clicked on this article, you're either (a) a genuinely curious customer looking to find out about more about cables, (b) an experienced hifi owner who is curious to expand your knowledge...
KEF LSX 2 | Simplicity, Performance, Beauty
We've been around for a long time. 36 years this year! And being in the business of hifi for that long, we've seen first-hand how hifi has evolved. What was once a hyper-niche, enthusiasts-only mar...
Visiting Accuphase at the Tokyo Hifi Show 2022
Tokyo, Japan, October 2022. One of our favourite places to visit - not just Tokyo, but Japan in general. Few cultures in this world have the level of singular focus, determination in excellence, a...
Why (almost) every system needs a Subwoofer
Why (almost) every system needs a subwoofer Speaker and subwoofer placement in a room is crucial to performance. If you've just dumped your speakers in a room without tuning, you aren't really lis...
Your Journey into High End Audio and What to Expect
Summary Music is a tool for humans to express emotion. The accessibility of music is a double-edged sword - greater access is good, but it also means people are playing music on all sorts of sy...
Audiophile Terms and Why We Love to Hate Them
Summary The audiophile industry have developed a set of adjectives to describe the sonic quality of hifi systems. The objective of hifi systems are to reproduce the original artists, but most of...
Cabasse Pearl Audio Range in Detail | By Anthony from Cabasse
We were lucky enough to have Anthony from Cabasse come by the store today, and we thought we'd take the opportunity to put together an instructional video on the fantastic Cabasse Pearl range. We'...
KEF LS50 Meta vs KEF LS50 Wireless 2 | Which one sounds better?
We compare the KEF LS50 Meta and the LS50 Wireless 2 speakers. Which one is right for you? Which one sounds better? We dive into the features and benefits of both and reveal our opinion on which on...
Arcam SA30 vs Hegel H120 - Which Streaming Amplifier is Right For You?
We compare the HEGEL H120 and the ARCAM SA30 streaming amplifiers using KEF LS50 Meta speakers. We often get asked which one you should buy, so we decided to compare both and hope this will help y...
Summary Damping factor is the ability of an amplifier's ability to control the woofers in your speaker, and is one part of the system damping factor. The higher the damping factor, the more neutra...