Product Reviews
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Asus promotes the N61 as a multimedia entertainment laptop just bursting with AV goodness. So here we are now — entertain us...
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The superb A-S700 Shares many merits with the award winning AS-1000, at less than half the cost.
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Just in time for this issue of Best Buys, Harman Kardon has released an updated range of home theatre receivers. Here we look the second most economical of them, the Harman Kardon AVR 260.
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British hi-fi manufacturers must sometimes feel as though they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. They’re building some of the most technically sophisticated hi-fi components available anywhere in the world, yet consumers in their home market seem to show a marked preference for staid, somewhat ordinary-looking designs!
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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.
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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!
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.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’.
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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.
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.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.
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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.
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