Weekend Notes review and Google reviews on Carlton Audio Visual
Tuesday, 17 October 2017 10:28:10 am Australia/Melbourne
We are not really into self aggrandisement however this is too nice a review to leave unrepeated to our potential audience ... "I spent various weekends looking for speakers for my house, soon to realise that I needed amps, wiring etc etc etc. My experience was over a few years, but finally I can safely come to a conclusion. I will tell you why Rab and his crew at Carlton Audio Visual are the best hi-fi guys in Melbourne."
Read MoreA visit to the Rega factory in Southern England
Sunday, 17 September 2017 11:52:15 pm Australia/Melbourne
To go to see Rega at the factory again after all these years is more than a pilgrimage for me ...
Read MorePost truamatic stress and My First Vinyls ... Ziggy Stardust
Saturday, 8 July 2017 3:35:25 pm Australia/Melbourne
More than anything this is the one album that was the backdrop to my dysfunctional teenage years in Cambridge and Manchester. I'm playing the vinyl today for the first time in ... actually years.
Read MoreReidun and Paul at the Munich Hi Fi Show
Sunday, 21 May 2017 2:49:20 pm Australia/Melbourne
The Munich Hi End show is the worlds' single greatest ever audio exhibition where manufacturers fight it out for the attention of distributors and purveyors from around the planet.
Read MoreTelevisions ... Past, present, and future
Sunday, 13 November 2016 6:16:45 pm Australia/Melbourne
It’s been a long time between drinks for us and mainstream Televisions …
There was a glorious epoch in the early 2000s where we had on display simultaneously Plasma Televisions from Pioneer, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, and Marantz along with the first Generation Sharp Aquos consumer LCD panels.
When I unlocked the shop in the morning after they had been left on at night a blast of heated ozone laden air would surge by me onto Lygon St. These Plasma TVs were power hungry high voltage devices and vengefully dissipated their waste heat into the confined space of our store.
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