Product Reviews
.jpg "Review: Moon i-1 Integrated Amplifier")
For a company that manufactures some spectacular-looking and completely individual products (the CD5.3 CD player and i5.3 dual mono integrated come immediately to mind) Moon seems to have been playing it safe of late: obviously by intention, hence the ‘Classic Series’ moniker that attaches to the Moon i-1.
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.jpg "Creek Audio Evolution 5350 Stereo Integrated Amplifier")
Creek’s most powerful ever stereo amp looks conventional, but hides some unusual design and operational features.
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.jpg "Review: Musical Fidelity 750k Power Amplifier / Supercharger")
Although it’s technically just a variant of a conventional power amplifier (indeed it can be used as a power amplifier if you like), Musical Fidelity refers to the 750k (and the 550k) as a ‘Supercharger’ because its raison d’etre is that it should be added to an existing audio system to ‘turbo-charge an existing power amplifier, rather than to replace your existing power amplifier.
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.jpg "Oppo Digital BDP-80 Universal Disc Player")
Oppo’s Blu-ray players have received the accolade of being used as the internal guts of high-price players from high-end brands. Does this new lower-cost unit keep up the performance heights?
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.jpg "Review: Paradigm Reference Studio 10v5 Loudspeakers")
When I first peeled the grille from the front of the Studio 10 v5, my heart sank a little, because I immediately saw the gold-coloured bullet at the centre of the cone and thought that Paradigm had started building bass/midrange drivers with pole-pieces that extended through the cone, eliminating the dustcap and exposing the voice-coil gap. I am not a fan of this particular design...
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.jpg "Samsung UA55C7000WF 3D LCD TV and BD-C6900 3D Blu-ray player")
3D TV is here. But do we want it? Is it practical? Will there be much to watch? Let’s start with the basics — does it work?
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.jpg "Canon Ixus 300HS")
Compact cameras with higher-end features and capabilities are flourishing right now and Canon’s IXUS contribution has sheer style on its side. Report by Paul Burrows.
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.jpg "BeBook Neo eReader")
eReaders come full of promise — they’re highly portable, they hold hundreds of books, and the E Ink screens look great in bright daylight. Early adopting technology lovers like ourselves should be simply drooling. But we’re not...
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.jpg "onOne Plug-In Suite 5")
You’d think Photoshop could now do everything that’s asked of it, but onOne says its plug-ins are as much about making these capabilities more accessible as about expanding them. Report by Paul Burrows.
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.jpg "Ricoh GXR with P10 lens unit")
Ricoh’s out-of-left-field interpretation of the compact system camera brief has had a slow start, but the arrival of new lens modules and a welcome revision of local pricing should help generate more interest. Report by Paul Burrows.
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