Australian HiFi

One of the best buys in turntable land at the moment is the special we are running on the Pro-Ject 2Xperience. This turntable sells for $1,999 (plus cartridge) and features electronic speed change and their superb 9cc tonearm, as used on the Linn Maj

One of the best advertising slogans I have ever heard was for a JBL loudspeaker (the JBL Sovereign II). The slogan? ‘If a JBL sounds expensive to you, there’s a reason: It’s expensive.*’ That slogan was so good that even though it was first coined ba

The three new models British loudspeaker manufacturer Wilson Benesch designed to commemorate its thirtieth birthday year in 2018 are now available in Australia. All three Precision Series models feature Wilson Benesch’s new ‘Leonardo’ silk-dome tweet

Newport Test Labs measured the frequency response of the JBL L100 Classic as 34Hz to 20kHz ±3.5dB, which is an excellent result, though it does not begin to approach JBL’s own specification of 40Hz to 40kHz –6dB. The graph of this response is shown i

Fact. The DB1D is the most powerful active subwoofer B&W has ever made. And if that fact doesn’t get your blood racing, how about that it has a low-frequency response that stretches down below 9Hz, as well as the ability to comfortably generate a sou

Readers interested in a full technical appraisal of the performance of the B&W DB1D Subwoofer should continue on and read the LABORATORY REPORT published on the following pages. Readers should note that the results mentioned in the report, tabulated

Sony produces equipment covering just about as wide an affordability gamut as any company, and this STR-DH790 is one of its lowest-priced multi-channel AV receivers, so let’s see what features have been selected for inclusion and exclusion, given the

If you love analogue sound, then you will be prepared to bear the burdens of analogue equipment, including the careful handling of discs, cleaning (possibly) of records, inspections of styli and all that. But if you’ve gone digital, some or all of th

It all began at the 1968 Hi-Fi Show in the Hotel Russell, Bloomsbury, London. I was sales manager at Mullard Electronics Limited where work was proceeding to mass-produce solid-state products for industry. Previously the company had built its reputat

The Australian Hi-Fi & AV Show, which returned to Melbourne in 2018 after being held in Sydney in 2017, had quite a few surprises in store—the biggest being that it took place just four days after the Melbourne International Hi-Fi Show. The new Cambr

I was somewhat familiar with the sound of Audeze’s SINE DX headphones even before I put them over my ears, because two years ago I enjoyed listening to the closed-back version of these planar magnetic headphones, and reviewed them very favourably. (T

Robert ‘Bob’ Metzler, co-founder of Audio Precision and the author of The Audio Measurement Handbook has died, aged 84. Born on July 28, 1934 in Plymouth, Indiana, to John and Margaret, Metzler, along with his brother John and his sister, Helen, atte

Tom Waters: Do you have a first memory, a first unforgettable musical experience that left an impression? Anthony Clarke: The story goes that when my parents brought me home as a newborn the only way they could get me to settle down and stop cryin

It seems difficult to credit that an amplifier/DAC/streamer… or, as Italian manufacturer Gold Note prefers to describe it, a ‘complete all-in-one super integrated amplifier’, could offer so many features, and have only a single control on the front p

I have a number of difficulties with the Gamut Hi Fi Lobster Chair and none of them involve it looking like a lobster. Being a pedant, my major difficulty is that it’s billed as ‘the world’s first music listening chair’ which it most patently is not.