Product Reviews
.jpg "Review: Linn Majik System")
It’s not often that a music system wins one of the world’s most prestigious high end awards, in fact it’s unprecedented: I don’t think it’s ever happened before. So I was surprised, to say the least, when I heard that the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) had named Linn’s new ‘Majik’ system ‘European High-End Audio Product of the Year 2006–2007.’ My sense of surprise was not to last long…
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.jpg "Review: Klipsch Image X5 Earphones")
Klipsch is one of the increasing number of manufacturers of ‘in-ear’ earphones that has realised that the lazy ‘one size fits all’ approach to design is doomed for failure.
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Now largely a German venture, Hartblei has gone to Zeiss to make the optics for its ingenious 360-degree rotating tilt/shift lenses for 35mm SLR/D-SLR systems.
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One more time without Freeview please?... For $169.95, PlayTV turns your PS3 into an HD PVR. And they’re bundling a 250GB PS3 with PlayTV for $599. Looks like a clear bargain, you’d think — and another step in the PS3’s advance to home entertainment status beyond gaming. Any problems?
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.jpg "Whatmough Magnum3 5.1-channel speaker package")
Last year we reviewed, very favourably, the superb Magnum2 home theatre package from Australian speaker manufacturer Whatmough. Not one to rest on its laurels, the good folk at Whatmough saw fit to conduct some fine-tuning to the Magnum main left and right speakers.
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.jpg "Cyrus 8 SE CD player / 8 XP d amplifier")
Short on fascia, long on abilities, the latest CD and amp pair from the UK’s Cyrus proves both versatile and impressive.
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.jpg "Review: Krix Harmonix Loudspeakers")
The Harmonix speakers I received for review had big shoes to fill, because they replace Krix’s famous award-winning Symphonix, which had been one of the most popular designs in Krix’s line-up for the past eight years. As you’ve probably guessed from the Symphonix’s very long eight-year reign, Krix doesn’t just introduce new models for the sake of it!
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It’s an in-dash GPS navigation unit, a CD and iPod player, and a four-channel 50W MOSFET amp. And a Bluetooth hands-free unit. And…
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.jpg "Zoned in Sonos S5 ZonePlayer")
Darn the new Sonos S5. With this review falling in our busy pre-Christmas period where piles of kit awaits review, the last thing we needed was something so joyfully brilliant that we just lie around playing track after track.
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.jpg "Green screen BenQ V2200 Eco")
BenQ is such a friendly company that when their Taiwanese regional President came to Australia recently, he successfully persuaded a good quantity of the company’s local dealers to join him in a cycle ride from Watson’s Bay to Bondi.
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