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Getting The Most From Your HiFi System

Explore our HiFi Tips and Tricks designed to enhance your system's performance and elevate your audio experience. Discover methods to elevate the sound quality of your existing setup right from the comfort of your home. Peruse our collection of tips and tricks below to unlock the full potential of your audio system. View all our HiFi Tips & Tricks articles here.

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GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR SPEAKERS

Here's some tips on how to get more out of your speakers. Some of them are free, just requiring some elbow grease - others cost a little bit of money, but good news is that any of the upgrades we're suggesting below will likely be able to be used on your future pair of speakers as well. 

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GETTING THE BEST FROM 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.

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GETTING THE MOST FROM 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, these solutions will still work, so you're not wasting anything. 

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WHY (ALMOST) EVERY SYSTEM NEEDS A SUBWOOFER

To understand why subwoofer placement is crucial, you first need to understand nodes and anti-nodes.

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IMPROVING YOUR DIGITAL SIGNAL PATH

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.

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LET'S TALK CABLES

In this article, we'll discuss:

  • How decent cabling unlocks the value of the system you already have
  • The price of some of these cables
  • Cable ratios, i.e. the notion that I've spent $Y on a speaker, therefore I should spend $Y x Z% on the cabling
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Vinyl performance, longevity and style: The UberLight Frame

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KEF LS LUXE vs LS60 Wireless review (does size matter?)

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Prefer to watch a video review? We've published this one to YouTube as well. Check it out here. *** KEF’s new LS LUXE speakers offer beauty and performance in one package… …thanks to new technologi...

KEF LS LUXE vs LS50 Wireless II review (which is better for you?)

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The 6 best performance upgrades for your turntable

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An artifact of perfectionism and style: the Accuphase DC-500 DAC

An artifact of perfectionism and style: the Accuphase DC-500 DAC

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