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Tired of being an Audiophile?

Sunday, 11 September 2005 3:46:00 pm Australia/Melbourne

au•di•o•phile (ôd--fl) n.

A person having an ardent interest in stereo or high-fidelity sound reproduction.

Mercifully, the dictionary.com definition of the term leaves out some of the less wholesome aspects of the all too common species: obsessive, paranoid and for the most part, completely nutty.

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Can you resist the call of the Sirens?

Sunday, 20 November 2005 12:27:00 pm Australia/Melbourne

According to Greek mythology, sailors were known to leap from ships and into the sea, enchanted by the song of bare bodied and buxom women known as the Sirens. The hero, Odysseus, evaded the lure of the Sirens by filling his crew's ears with wax and tying himself to the mast.

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Can you resist the call of the Sirens?

Sunday, 20 November 2005 12:27:00 pm Australia/Melbourne

According to Greek mythology, sailors were known to leap from ships and into the sea, enchanted by the song of bare bodied and buxom women known as the Sirens. The hero, Odysseus, evaded the lure of the Sirens by filling his crew's ears with wax and tying himself to the mast...

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Monitor Audio goes bootylicious!

Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:18:00 am Australia/Melbourne

Take one expensive speaker driver, gorgeous real wood finish, and a ton of sex-appeal, and you get the new Monitor Audio Silver RS series.

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SED vs Plasma vs LCD: Wake me when the fight begins...

Sunday, 28 May 2006 11:48:00 am Australia/Melbourne

How times have changed. And how they have not.

The other day I was taking in the "B" grade 70's classic Death Race 2000 (one of Sylvester Stallone's first flicks). The film is set in the year 2000, and revolves around a car race televised on national TV, in which the competitors engage in acts of violence on the roads. In one scene, a viewer remarks "Next year we'll be able to watch this on a 40 inch screen!" The irony of course is that I was watching the film on a 50 inch plasma. Nevertheless, quite a bold prediction for 1975.

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