Every now and then, when answering the Plasma vs LCD question for the fifteenth time on a given day, I find I can occasionally forget why I got into this industry in the first place. Thats why I find it important every now and then to rekindle my passion with music. For me the WOMAD festival is a great recharge, allowing me to find that spark that first ignited my passion for music.

Un-freakin-believable. I felt nauseous from the low end output of these brutes. I blinked and recoiled at each strike of the timpani. Some speakers claim to sound larger than life. The IB1S make you realise how large life really sounds...

Greetings from Denver, the mile high city! Paul and I are currently at CEDIA Expo US, the largest event in the custom audio visual feild. The sheer scope of the event is massive, with an estimated fifty thousand AV porfessionals decending on the convention centre for a drunken orgy of product training, drinking and strip club jaunts.

We're here to get an eyeful of the latest and greatest products that are about to hit the market both here in the states and back home. Heres some of my personal higlights.

Kalediscape - This is the DVD video server that I've read so much about. Its one thing to read about how good it is, but until you sit down and actually touch and feel it, you just can't appreciate how fantastic the interface is. Its ridiculously expensive, but if you have the money its worth every cent. No Australian distribution that I know of though...

Paul and Troy are back from their world trip, but the blog continues!

Its a rare event that can make me leave the house of an evening without the promise of booze, but the launch of Nintendos new 'Wii' console is one of those such events.

Lining up with 100 of so of my fellow un-washed bretheren (read: geeks like me...) I waited patiently in line until midnight when the store began releasing consoles to those of us who pre-ordered. A quick taxi ride home (I wasn't about to chance a casual mugging on public transport) and I was setting up my new toy.