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Turntable tune-ups this weekend
We love records. And the stores that sell them. If only there was a day we could celebrate that...
That's why this weekend, we're offering a free tune-up for your turntable. Make sure your deck is in tip top shape to help extract the most from your wax.
We are also offering some exceptional specials on our most extensive range of new players.
Simply bring your turntable into the store this weekend and our staff will give give it a look over to make sure that it's in good working order.
Open 10-6 Saturday, 1-6 Sunday.
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Australian Loudspeakers
We have an exceptional and well balanced rangr of Australian made product on demonstration and sale at Carlton Audio Visual. We believe we have the largest range of Australian made Audio of any Hi Fi seller in Australia.
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Dynaudio in Melbourne
Some gorgeous loudspeakers that can justifiably claim to have the most refined moving coil drive units in the world.
Now invigorated by a massive transfusion of Chinese capital this company is also born again in Australia.
It’s worth pointing out that the brand our other loudspeaker manufacturers seem to perhaps be most chagrined at our purveying is Dynaudio in their latest distributor partnership in Australia …
The new Dynaudio range excels in their wireless offering by the way. The Xeo 2’s at $1995 are an exceptional quality offering in a very compact form factor.
As ever though a properly purchased loudspeaker is a personal subjective choice on the part of the consumer and Dynaudio are another option for our clients to try in comparison.
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Death of the CR100
The Sonos CR100 will soon be no more.
Today it look like an anachronism, but it was a game changer of a product. Although borrowing heavily from the then contemporary iPod, it revolutionised the way we could engage with our still nascent digital music collections. In conjunction with the rest of the Sonos system, at that time either a box that plugged into your stereo or an amplified module you connected speakers to, it helped forge a path for multi-room music. At that point in time multi-room music generally involved a multi-disc CD player and a zone amplifier. Originally confined to your music, Sonos embraced streaming solutions, then wireless speakers and is now a name synonymous with the entire category.
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And so this was Christmas
And so this was Christmas … Whenever I hear that iconic John Lennon track I am immediately transported into a cold bedsit in a Manchester suburb in 1972 where my sister and I were placed for Christmas a comfortable distance away from our new step family.
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