Love your music but had enough of the mess of wire and boxes cluttering up your life? Well why not hide all the electronics away, conceal the speakers and control your whole system from a sexy and intuitive in wall keypad system.

From a single room to a whole house, we are the experts at designing and installing high performance audio visual systems that complement the aesthetics of your home and that anyone in the house can use. With access to a huge range of products from the World’s leading AV companies, our Cedia trained consultants can specify and install a custom audio visual system to meet any requirements. Drop by with your plans and ideas and let us show you systems that will forever change the way you (don’t) see Hi Fi.

Hailing from the UK, Arcam is at the forefront of quality Hi Fi. Putting sound quality ahead of flashing lights, Arcam offer Hi Fi and Cinema products for true lovers of music and movies. With two different series of products – the acclaimed DiVA and the top of the line FMJ; Arcam have models to suit most budgets:

Chord Electronics was founded in 1989 by John Franks who had previously held Directorships with Astec, the world leader in high frequency power supplies, Raytheon and AT&T. A thorough mix of graduate level intellect, design experience and dedicated craft persons embody Chords production team, with their sales being achieved through a reputation of technical excellence, reliability and superb sound quality.

Carlton Audio Visual is proud to be the new Melbourne representative for this innovative and incredibly exciting UK company.

Currently on display ('Choral' range pictured):

Occasionally I am reminded of the old Ivor Tiefenbraun of Linn fame philosophy that he used to create the charisma of the original Linn Sondek LP12 turntable in the UK in the late seventies.

In some ways this Television has denigrated all other display devices to model T Ford technology level..at a stroke it has introduced a new level of resolution, pixel speed, useability and longecity into the marketplace. The definition of image that this can portray from an Alloy media centre running 1080P downloads is quite unreal in its clarity and is a glimpse into the future of in home visual entertainment. Running "normal" HD TV it shows what the medium is capable of and makes a Plasma image look crude and noisy. Sharp are the unnassailed leaders in this LCD panel technology and look like staying that way for some time...

Carlton Audio pride ourselves on having one of the best speaker ranges in the country and without a doubt this Canberra made brand is one of our all time favourites. The new Kurre 4 Monitors follow strongly in the footsteps of the awesome floorstanding Kantu 4 Floorstanders offering a wealth of detail and sense of depth and space well beyond what a box of this size should rightly be able. [read on!]

In the recent November Issue of What Hifi they conducted a Mega-test of high-end home cinema products: the Denon AVR 3805 surround receiver and the Denon DVD 3910 multi-format DVD player as a combination won hands down!

To be honest, none of us here were very surprised. We’ve been auditioning these two components successfully in the store for a little while now and we know how good they are. So good that the picture and audio quality blows any other surround combination we have at even double the price out of the water. So good that you’ll be forced to re-evaluate just how well an AV system can play back your CDs. So good that it’s been difficult to keep even a couple of units in backup. So good that I’m starting to question the logic behind promoting this page...?