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Interview with Dr Rod

Dr Rod Crawford, the esteemed designer of the Legend loudspeaker range , came down from his Tasmanian mountain mansion to grace the world of ordinary mortals with his views on loudspeakers and acoustics.

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Leema Acoustics - Welsh revenge - A new UK stereo reference?

Leema Antila CD player

We are pleased to introduce this chiseled alloy range of kit to our business.Very simple externally but very intelligent internally. The brainchild of two ex-BBC engineers ( a not uncommon source of fanatics in audiophile land ) Mallory Nicholls and Leigh Taylor, the so called Constellation series of electronics has been receiving rave reviews from the critical UK audio press.

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Stream Me Up Scotty!

The death of CD?

The Slim Devices Transporter -- $3,195rrp



OK so storing your music on your computer is convenient and great way to sync with your portable player, but it isn’t really Hi Fi is it? Well with the Slim Devices Transporter you can now take the music stored on your computer and play it through your Hi Fi system with true audiophile quality.

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Mission M-Cube

Colourful sound balls!

This is currently the ultimate extension of NXT technology available ( except perhaps for the no compromise design exercise that is the Cyrus Icon loudspeaker at $10,000-ish).They use the flat panel technology in a new ultra compact format called Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML)that offers some distinct technical advantages over any other product.

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Mind yer P's and Q's!

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Something new! CAV has been smitten with this product since hearing them briefly about six months back and we're now proud to be stocking the new Q Acoustics 1000 series. A fantastic value range incorporating two bookshelf and two floorstanding models, as well as the matching cinema centre and sub.

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WRATH Musical Fidelity Superchargers

MF Head Honcho with new baby.


It was with great pleasure that we met one of the icons of our industry last week. Anthony Michaelson is the soul driver of Musical Fidelity and had dinner and a product introduction with our chaps.

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$89000.00

If you want the best ....

As "What Hi Fi?" said in their recent review (May 2007 pgs 76-77):

"Value for money is a contentious issue. One person's definition of a perfectly sensible pair of jeans is another's exemplar of fashion obsession gone mad, three-hundred quid frittered on the fripperies of designer denim."

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$25998.00

It is now amongst us ....

Not content with the AVC-A1 at 10 by 170rms Denon are previewing a pre and power home theatre amplifier that will be iconic. DTS master and Dolby HD are onboard the preamp along with a unique level of home entertainment network integration. VU meters on the power amp...

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When the beautiful but HiFi zero partner of one of our associates walked into the shop, picked up the Sonos control and said " So this is where the music comes from" - we knew that there was a new note of control harmony being established in our product range. Within seconds she was streaming a music selection of her particular yearning off Rhapsody. She had never seen the Controller before.Or bothered picking any thing up in our shop...

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PRIDE Sharp du massif .... worlds largest TV

The new 108" LCD TV has a piano black finish and looks as if one would need steel reinforcing in a wall to hold it. It is intended to be a production item and the latest news is that it may incorporate 4096 x 2160 resolution. This will not be cheap ...

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Opinions

  • The Sharp Quattron has landed - rab
    We have just received the first examples of this much awaited divergent LCD tech screens from Sharp...
  • Transparent OLED Screen - rab
    from the CES 2010 is this very cool OLED screen with 40 percent transparency, this is very much from the annals of Sci Fi such as "Minority Report" and is a good example of narrative creating the techno magic that will no doubt soon be in everyday use...
  • The writing on the wall... - troy
    We are often told that people don't realise you can still buy a standalone CD player...
  • Obsolete ... - rab
    The fact of obsolescence rests uncomfortably on our industry...

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