At the very heart of the specialist consumer audio visual business lies the sales of Home Cinema Amplifier. Like the engine of a car this component is the main focus of a potential consumers attention as they cut their way through the jungle of marketing hype on a path towards owning a surround sound system in their home.

In a very real sense our own small business in Carlton was founded upon the existence of this product category. In 1990 when we opened the king of the hill in Hi Fi retail was the Surround Receiver and this was part of our intended foundation when we wrote the business plan. Pro Logic was the word and Top gun was the demo.

We are doing our beloved Yamaha 5000 series system at the Melbourne International Hi-Fi Show ...Ive said it before and it sounds like a cliche but this actually is one of the most natural sounding combinations that you can find bar none ... and it's been made that way by the best designers of the largest musical instrument company in the world.

There is a prize for a fortunate person if you visit our room ... an actual first run GT5000 Turntable worth $12,995 ... come to us to get an entry card.

This is the new very top of the range of Dynaudio now coming online for demonstration at Carlton Audio Visual. They are the very best engineered speakers that this Danish icon has yet made. Yes the Confidence 60's are better than the Evidence and Consequence ...

The Pole House is a distinctive part of the landscape on the Great Ocean Road here in Victoria. One of Australia's smartest people bought it when it finally came up for sale by the original pylon engineer who had built it initially in the 1960s. Like many people who actually do something really useful for society this gentleman is incredibly modest and unassuming but has an unbridled love for good music and video.

We were called in at the early stages to conceptualise and iterate the audio visual systems and automation. Peculiar to this residence is the fact that the Pole House itself is available for lease to holidaymakers and needs to be able to operate both independantly and contiguously with the new primary residence that has been constructed on the hillside behind it.

The home systems are operated via Control4, this automation product that Carlton Audio Visual has been purveying and installing since 2004 is now Australia's leading home integration system for combining all of your lighting, AV control, HVAC and other functions with elegance and simple accesability.

This is rather a special privilege for me to be taken to the Dynaudio production facility in Denmark. Right now this is the most well capitalised loudspeaker company on planet Earth, they were hugely infused with money by the Chinese Acoustic components company Goertek ... that you have probably never heard of. They make all the nano speakers for mobile devices and have the largest market value of any company in this sector with no less than 42,000 employees.