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They are coming, deadly black Panels...

These will be amongst us in Australia in the coming months, deadly black 1080P panels from the worlds best LCD manufacturer that carry the technology of the greater good LC65 into new markets......
The 46inch is destined to replace the established 45 inch lc45g1sys( a fantastic TV)

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handheld devices

With respect to Smarthouse News, they have released some details of Apples Patent for their future multimedia handheld device. Perhaps they will pip the Zune as being the device to have? Will we be able to play what we like when we like?

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Australian Top 40.....

the final countdown.... sorry nothing to do with Hi Fi et al...
Australia's favourite nuclear targets
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homeshow ambience in wall designer meet

So this morning I was at the RACV homeshow...with the missus...and we went part around this massive palace of consumerism...it really is a shopping experience, like the largest and best department store in the Southern Hemisphere opening just for a week a year...we work there twice a year and are usually too busy to ever actually walk around and look...however each time we do take the walk we find something we want irrevocably...sometimes it takes years though before we can afford it...or not... ...

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baghdad burning

"I feel like the black or white scarf I fling haphazardly on my head as I walk out the door makes me invisible to a certain degree- it’s easier to blend in with the masses shrouded in black. If you’re a female, you don’t want the attention- you don’t want it from Iraqi police, you don’t want it from the black-clad militia man, you don’t want it from the American soldier. You don’t want to be noticed or seen."

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New Sharp Televisions

I would love to show you the prelims of Sharp last quarter release high Def Televisions...but then I would be sued and quartered by a major Japanese Corporation...thats not a good thing for an Australian SME...

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2001 - A Space Odyssey

Its the shitz, man

We are proud to present the Michell range of turntables. The model pictured is the Gyrodec, arguably the most iconic of all hifi components. Its form and function rivals anything from the Eames stable, its appearance undeniably mid-century modern. Its creator, the late J.A. Michell, founded an engineering company that provided services to the film industry in the 60s, including the design of space crafts for Staneley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey.

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Does the new 007 spell the end of the world?

I recently saw a re-run of Aussie actor Anthony LaPaglia (of Without A Trace fame) interviewed on Denton's Enough Rope. Aside from being engrossed by his story of growing up the son of a migrant mechanic in Adelaide, and making it big in Hollywood despite the odds, he gave a very pointed critique of what is wrong with big budget films. In an effort to draw big at the box offices, producers will land big stars, pay them big dollars, and then revolve the script around them to maximize the time their faces appears on screen. Naturally, this is at the expense of the story telling and character development.

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Legend's new flagship loudspeaker: Big Reds



Big Reds in the nude!



These devices have been set up in one of the Drummond rooms to a particular manner by Dr Rod Crawford. His combination of alien tech room measurement microphony, artistry, experience, and innate build quality gives us a musical event that equals the technical levels of systems in the $50,000 area.

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Pardon the French! YBA lands at CAV

Its French for HiFi!

We just can't help ourselves here at CAV. We're just drawn to good hifi. When some YBA gear was dropped off for evaluation, we really were'nt interested in carrying another product line. That is until we connected the gear up and plyaed it. An then opened it up to disect the internals. The verdict? Power and theatrics are aplenty, along with an engineering philosophy that borders on the insane (i.e., overbuilt to the extreme). What's more, the YBA website evokes memories of the eurovision singing contest, with its novel interpretations of the english language. An excerpt from the YBA website:

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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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