Small family business models are rife with exploitation and infighting ... how do you make a business work and keep and grow its people so that they enjoy coming to work and have all the satisfiers in place for a long term relationship with their workplace?

The waiting is over, and the PS Audio Aspen FR30 speakers are nothing short of remarkable, setting new standards of focus, openness, weight and control at this price and well above. The build and finish are as immaculate as the sound, the unusual styling works remarkably well in the room, and the listening experience is a revelation. If you're in the market for speakers in this sector, listen to them - they're a bargain

It’s been two years of Covid Hiatus since the Munich High End HiFi show opened its doors and Magnus and I made the journey in anticipation of great things HiFi and great things German culture (ie. German Beer Halls). This is a pilgrimage that any person seriously working in this industry needs to make .

How could a war in Eastern Europe possibly affect a Hi-Fi Audio Visual store in Carlton, Australia?

We take it for granted now that we are going to sell record playing technology. We have always been invested in it as an organisation. During the long dark years of digital dominance of our marketplace ecosystem we would keep a Rega Planar 3 on demo, often with an abused copy of Dark Side of The Moon collecting dust on the platter, and would demonstrate to those who cared to listen how ... fundamentally satisfying ... the sound was.

As a small business we are a leaf upon the waters and have no influence on the marketplace as such but through demonstration of our wares effectively can modulate the direction of an individual who cares to listen.

Turntables were always a part of our business therefore even though by 1991 when we opened most manufacturers had thrown the towel in and many beautiful replay instruments were being sold for a fraction. Most people were happy with CD as it was presented to them in the eighties. The "indestructible format with huge dynamic range" that took up less space and didn't scratch and crackle.  Turntables and records were officially declared obsolete in the early eighties, as exemplified by this Rodrigues cartoon from Stereo Review in 1984.