Hi Fi News

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The Philips CD960 of 1987 was one of the company’s occasional flirtations with the top end of hi-fi. These were to show that the Dutch brand could offer components capable of state-of-the-art performance. Design and assembly was done in Japan by MJI

Sound and Image

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The next four articles come under the broad heading of computer audio, and they came together organically by turning up at the same time, rather than being an organised collection with a common theme. There’s AudioQuest’s new DragonFly USB DAC, perha

Maximum PC

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THE MODERN world runs on silicon—even if a product doesn’t have chips in it, the machines that make it, deliver it, or supply the raw materials will. Manufacturing chips is expensive; the machines that make the wafers cost $100 million a pop. Such ex

Yachting

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Given some of the gloriously clear waters we boaters ply, it’s only natural to want a snorkel-free portal into the underwater world of coral, fish, crustaceans and more. Aqualuma’s Luma-Vu CCTV camera ($999) is exactly that — a type of underwater win

Future Music

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It’s likely already in your plugins folder, and it’s well and truly the one to beat, so how does the world’s favourite freeware plugin compare to the other analysers in this round-up? SPAN is legendary for many reasons, including spectrum smoothing,

South African Home Owner

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The season for sensational home entertainment is here – and it’s all the more fun if you have the right bits and bobs for that fully immersive experience. With so many products on the market though, it’s sometimes hard to know where to start. Let us

Popular Science

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A radio signal tells the components to vaporize. A piece of polycarbonate. In a new kind of electronics, this material will vaporize when heated by a chemical reaction. Cornell University Engineers have come up with a trick to make electronics disint

Audio Technology

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I remember the day my Antelope Audio Zen Tour desktop interface arrived in a parcel and I rushed home to set it up in my small studio setup. Hearing audio for the first time through the Zen Tour’s pristine conversion was a revelatory moment, for me —

CQ Amateur Radio

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Two decades ago, in 1999, I wrote a column predicting what I thought the future would be like in the coming 20 years and, as strange as it seems to me, it’s finally here. As it appears that the COVID-19 situation is still not well under control by th

Tatler Homes Singapore

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Catch up on your favourite shows, watch live sports matches and explore the world vicariously via travel documentaries from your living room with a topnotch audiovisual system. Revel in the stunning images and the heart-thumping sound of the LG GX Ga

Caravan World

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REDARC’s commitment to Australia was cemented last year when it completed an expansion of its existing facility with the latest in robotic and computer controlled equipment. The workforce of around 200 skilled staff includes 50 full-time engineers. A

The Shed

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Starting with this issue of The Shed, I am thrilled to begin a new series of articles on restoring and upcycling vintage technology appliances. Before getting stuck into our first project, I will explain the methodology I follow when working on a vin

Sailing Today

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Legacy Raymarine equipment on Mike’s Malo 34 was becoming harder to keep in good working condition. “The anemometer at the top of the mast kept causing me trouble – the bearings went so I sent it off to be repaired. It’s hard work to get old instrume

Future Music

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Live 11 adds several new features aimed at enhancing live performances and jam sessions. Most notable of these is a new tempo-following feature that allows Live’s master clock to follow the tempo of an incoming audio signal. The idea is that it allow

How It Works

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The point-contact transistor is invented at Bell Labs. The p-n junction transistor is created the following year. British electronics engineer Geoffrey Dummer (right) conceives the integrated circuit. He builds a prototype and presents it at a confe

RV Travel Lifestyle

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From humble startup in the home garage to sales now in excess of 10,000 TV/DVD systems, RSE continue to lead from the front and are New Zealand’s largest and longest-established motorhome and caravan entertainment provider, with systems ranging from

Linux Format

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If you find that the identification isn’t very accurate, first check your model’s accuracy for that item in the Edge Impulse Model Testing tab. You can add more photos by following the Data Acquisition steps and then selecting Retrain model in Edge I

Airgun Shooter

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Most rangefinders tend to be much of a muchness – point them at your target and press a button, and they tell you how far away it is. The Rapier Ballistic Rangefinder from MTC will do this job really well, measuring distances out to 1,000 metres with

Electronic Musician

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The Fusion modules employ valves as part of the circuit and this adds a rich warmth to the signal that some love. Valves introduce subtle variation into a circuit, where fluctuations can add some ‘life’ that digital components typically don’t. An int

Futurity

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Self-erasing chips could help stop counterfeit electronics or provide alerts if sensitive shipments are tampered with, researchers report. The chips rely on a new material that temporarily stores energy, changing the color of the light it emits. It s

Home Cinema Choice

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WITH 32IN TVs still popular for gaming and second room uses, it’s always a good day when one as solid as the Hisense H32A5800UK finds its way on to my test bench. This first catches the eye with an aggressive £200 price tag for an HD Ready (1,366 x 7

PC Gamer

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Your PC is made of sand. Or at least the bits that make it a PC are. Melted and refined sand is made into microchips because sand is made of silicon, which is a semiconductor, an element that acts as an electrical conductor under some conditions and

Future Music

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I’ve seen and read about people attempting a modular case build who have been confident with the woodworking aspect but whose attempts fail on the electronics. This is perfectly understandable and if you don’t wish to tackle this part of the build yo

Future Music

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The Fusion modules employ valves as part of the circuit and this adds a rich warmth to the signal that some love. Valves introduce subtle variation into a circuit, where fluctuations can add some ‘life’ that digital components typically don’t. An int

Sound and Image

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8K TV resolution is all about larger screen sizes, so we’ve been unusually unexcited over Samsung’s release of 55-inch, even 65-inch 8K TVs, given you’d need to be sitting with your nose on the screen to get much of the benefit of the increased resol

TechLife News

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Chicago Public Schools will distribute 100,000 electronic devices for students to use at home as the district implements a remote learning plan, officials announced Monday. Illinois schools were shut down at mid-March to stop the spread of COVID-19.

T3

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What is this wizardry, T3? It’s that slight pause between you hitting a button on your game controller and your action registering on screen. Getting a picture up on that enormous panel takes a certain amount of processing time. Depending on the spee

Apple Magazine

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Chicago Public Schools will distribute 100,000 electronic devices for students to use at home as the district implements a remote learning plan, officials announced Monday. Illinois schools were shut down at mid-March to stop the spread of COVID-19.

What Hi-Fi?

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APC

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The original Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) is a marvel in truly every sense, but the company has now upped the ante. The original WSE brought an unbelievable 400,000 cores, 1.2 trillion 16nm transistors, 46,225 square millimetres of silicon, and