Product Reviews
.jpg "Nikon D3S")
Following the D300S, Nikon’s ‘big pixels’ D3 gets the ‘S pack’ upgrade, boosting its high ISO performance and adding HDV recording capabilities. A good thing made better reports Paul Burrows.
Read More
.jpg "Review: AKG K242HD Headphones")
Some headphone manufacturers let their styling get in the way of comfort. Some even let their styling get in the way of sound quality. Look at AKG’s new K242HD headphones and you can see instantly that AKG doesn’t let styling get in the way of comfort. If you then listen to a pair, you’ll find the company doesn’t let styling affect sound quality either!
Read More
.jpg "Review: Richter Wizard 3.5 Loudspeakers")
Richter’s ‘Wizard’ loudspeakers are aptly named, because they do indeed have extraordinary powers. One of these is longevity. The Wizard design first appeared ‘way back in 1986 and quickly became Australia’s most talked-about loudspeaker. It was also the only Australian design that has ever been copied, with the cheap ‘knock-off’ imitations being marketed under the name ‘Lizard’.
Read More
.jpg "Ricoh GXR")
It’s an interchangeable lens camera, Jim, but not as we know it. Ricoh messes with our minds with an… er, interchangeable camera camera. Report by Paul Burrows.
Read More
.jpg "Review: Jungson JA88D Integrated Amplifier")
Jungson’s JA-88D looks like a power amplifier but it’s not. It appears that Jungson was caught out by a high consumer demand for integrated amplifiers at a time when it was primarily producing separate pre and power amplifiers. The company judged that the fastest way to get a product to market to satisfy demand was to build preamp circuitry into one of its existing power amplifier chassis.
Read More
.jpg "Review: Quad II Eighty Power Amplifier")
The Quad II-eighty is a revitalised and more powerful version of Quad founder Peter Walker’s 1950s original classic, the Quad II (a current version of that amplifier, known as the Quad II ‘Classic’, is available with very a similar output power rating), but now given a circuit make-over and a strong dosage of steroids via valve wonder-engineer Tim De Paravicini.
Read More
.jpg "Toshiba BDX2000KY Blu-ray player")
So Toshiba finally bites the Blu-ray bullet two years after its own HD format bit the dust. Such patience, it seems, is a virtue.
Read More
.jpg "Baumann Meyer DF3220BC LCD TV")
Baumann Meyer’s award-winning 32-incher brings full-HD glory to the small screen.
Read More
.jpg "AktiMate Maxi networking iPod speakers")
An award-winner has been fuel injected to create these do-it-all network-streaming iPod-docking boxes.
Read More
.jpg "Review: Plinius CD-101 CD Player")
Plinius has been copping a lot of flack since it released its first-ever CD player, causing Plinius designer Gary Morrison to tell one interviewer that the market was already full of ‘all singing, all dancing pieces of whizzy electronics’ and that Plinius didn’t want to make another one. ‘Think outside the square,’ he told AudioEnz’ Brent Burmester.
Read More