Impedance, Preamplifiers and Amplifiers
Impedance, Preamplifiers and Amplifiers You may have heard about impedance matching your speakers with your amplifier to ensure that they have enough juice to power them across the frequency range....
Choosing a headphone may seem daunting at first, due to the sheer size of options on the market with their own respective qualities. As headphones are a very personal purchase, we thought it would ...
Tick Tock Wasn't it refreshing reading "Tick Tock" spelt the way it's supposed to be! Anyway... Almost all digital audio products have a clock inside it. Digital audio recordings consists of a num...
Active or Passive? Your First Hifi System | Featuring Bluesound Powernode and KEF
If you are looking to purchase your first system, you’ll need to know the difference between Active and Passive speakers. In this article we’ll be outlining everything you need to know, as well as ...
KEF LS60: Should you ditch your separates? | KEF LS60 Active Vs Integrated Amp + Passive Speakers
Since KEF released their LS60 Active System, one of the most common questions we get is, is it time for me to ditch my separate hifi components? Can a fully active system really outperform dedicate...
Getting the Most out of your Electronics
Other than buying a new amplifier or streamer, there's a few cost-effective solutions to improving your existing equipment, and the best thing is, even if you upgrade your equipment in the future, ...
Getting the most out of your streamer with Nordost
Improving your Streamer Streaming is ubiquitous in the modern hifi system. Everyone wants to maximise their potential from their hifi, and there's a couple ways to do it. 1. Get a better streamer -...
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 car...
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...
This Is What “High-End Audio” Actually Means
Hi-fi systems, like anything in the luxury sector— wines, cars, boats, watches— come at all price points. The cost of a pair of speakers can be as low as a few hundred dollars, and go all the way u...
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...