Tagged under: Focal, Grand Utopia
Posted by Len | 5 Comments
Firstly in the forty years I have been in this industry I have heard many high-end high quality speakers and the first observation is that just because a loudspeaker is expensive (or big) does not mean that it is going to sound good. The Grand Utopia EM is simply the finest speaker that I have ever heard, by a considerable margin.
Tagged under: Home Theatre, Kuro., Pioneer, Plasma
Posted by Len | 10 Comments
The Pioneer Kuro range of screens was universally hailed as being the worlds best flat panel TV: ever. Yet for Pioneer Plasma was a money burning exercise, and finally they have decided that they can no longer afford to finance the category.
Tagged under: A/V Receivers, Hi-Fi, NAD
Posted by Len | 3 Comments
………but whatever happened to 100% (or honesty in advertising)?
Tagged under: B&W, Focal, Hi-Fi, Marantz, Musical Fidelity, NAD, Sydney Audio Club
Posted by Len | 3 Comments
Everyone involved in the audio industry is aware of the importance of component matching in a system. A combination of very fine individual components does not guarantee a satisfactory result. However if the components ‘gel’ it can sound marvelous, and not necessarily be expensive.
Tagged under: Automation, distributed audio, distributed video, multi-room audio, Networking, video streaming
Posted by Len | No Comments
Networking, automation, remote security access, music and video streaming and content shifting are all high priorities for many people, and the greater the value of the property, the higher the priority. While the promise of wireless technology leaves many to hope that this can be achieved without a cabled backbone, the demands made by increasingly larger files that need to be shifted make this technology unreliable.
