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Australian Hi-Fi Show 2023 – Part 2
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 03 May 2023 03 May 2023
In Part 2, I continued the journey of discovery as I progressed along the long dual carriage corridor, going room-to-room, on level 9 of the Novotel Central Hotel Sydney.
Australian Hi-Fi Show 2023 – Part 1
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 02 May 2023 02 May 2023
In an audio enthusiast-invigorating return to Sydney, the Australian Hi-Fi Show staged its much-awaited comeback at the Novotel Central Hotel to eager crowds while presenting a medley of hi-fi from entry level to the high-end.
RIO Sound & Vision VIP Pre-Launch Tour and Gala Opening
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 11 April 2023 11 April 2023
They had a dream. Dynamic duo Paul and Denise Riachi, founders of RIO Sound & Vision, envisioned a unique audio and visual retail space on a scale unlike anything this country, and likely the world, had ever seen. A grand environment where the Melbourne couple’s love of music and film could be showcased in an expression of excellence with unrivalled magnitude. SoundStage! Australia was invited to a VIP preview tour and, later that night, the gala opening where celebrities, media and key industry personnel were treated to a unique achievement in the audio/visual retail sector. (The Riachi’s are seen above with Aussie Boxing Champion Michael Zerafa and iconic movie characters).
The Tivoli Hi-Fi Experience
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 March 2023 01 March 2023
Not the beautiful gardens in Paris of old, nor a picture-perfect township just south of Rome. No, Tivoli Hi-Fi is more like the famous Copenhagen fun park, a joyful namesake and audio Mecca not just for Melbournians but for audiophiles and music lovers from all around Australia.
Factory Tour – Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 15 January 2023 15 January 2023
Who would have thought cacti could be considered beautiful? The prickly mono-tone plants are hardly… aesthetically pleasing. But to my eyes, there’s an alien-like beauty in the impenetrably thorny forms. They’re… peculiar. Yet, despite their pin-pointed armour, the poetic paradox is that they offer lifesaving, fluid-filled fleshy stems. They’re everywhere across the North American west. Legions of them, reflecting across the windscreen on the drive to Pheonix, across Arizona’s parched landscape. I’m on a… relentless (yes, fully intended) mission to once again meet-up with the man himself. Dan The Man. At the Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems facility in Cave Creek out beyond the sparse Phoenix outskirts.
Wilson Audio Factory Tour & WAMM Master Chronosonic Audition
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 January 2023 01 January 2023
There’s a distinct feeling, a saturating melancholy as we drive the open road through the American West. It’s the vistas of barren desert and red-earthed canyons. The romantic depictions in Hollywood-SuperScope and panoramic art inspired by the folklore of pioneering wagon train settlers, fortune-seeking adventurers and fierce pony-riding warriors. It’s with that mood-blanket that I launch into the road trip – to Salt Lake City and on to Provo – across cracked desert hard-bordering snow-crowned mountains. In Provo, at the foot of the soaring Rockies, we arrive at Mountain Vista Lane, Wilson Audio HQ.
SoundStage! Talks Australia Video: How Dan D'Agostino Maintains Momentum - SoundStage! Talks Australia
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 19 December 2022 19 December 2022
SoundStage! Australia Editor in Chief Edgar Kramer visits Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems’ Phoenix facility to have a chat with the man himself, Dan D’Agostino, to discuss the company’s products and future direction.
Audio-Technica Shows New Flagship Cartridge & Turntable at Audio Connection
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 15 December 2022 15 December 2022
Audio-Technica celebrates its 60th Anniversary since the company’s inception by founder Hideo Matsushita, with the release of a flagship cartridge and a limited edition commemorative turntable.
SoundStage! Talks Australia Video: Daryl Wilson’s Speaker Quest to Create Soul-Stirring Sound
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- Published: 13 December 2022 13 December 2022
SoundStage! Australia Editor in Chief Edgar Kramer visited Wilson Audio’s Utah HQ last month to tour the facility and chat with the formidable driving force that is Daryl Wilson. Now the company’s CEO and sonic visionary, in this video, Daryl describes the Wilson Audio ethos and how he works to create music reproduction that moves him.
Whisky & Vinyl at Audio Connection
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- Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 11 December 2022 11 December 2022
Audio Connection, Crosstalk Records and Bladnoch Distillery held the 'Music, Whisky and Vinyl' public event showcasing the best turntables, rare and exclusive vinyl and tipples of excellent whisky. It was held at the newly renovated Audio Connection shop in Leichhardt.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Alexia V - Wilson Audio's Latest Speaker Vastly Improves Predecessor - SoundStage! Australia
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 09 October 2022 09 October 2022
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In video series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this episode, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer runs through the new Wilson Audio Alexia V loudspeakers' features and broad list of improvements over its successful predecessor.
Magico LLC – Advanced Design Insights & Factory Tour
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 October 2022 01 October 2022
They tell me it’s a dry spell in San Francisco. More of a drought really. So as the aircraft descends without slipping through the lightness of a single cloud, I land at SFO International Airport, having trekked from Sydney via a quick Honolulu gate-skip. As I lean on the wall of the window seat, I’m bathed by a Californian sunshine which I’m told has dried-run for months. A contrast from the endless webbed feet-producing deluges in Sydney. The purpose of my visit? A surprise invitation, weeks prior, from Alon Wolf Magico LLC’s CEO to experience the ideologies and activities at the company’s HQ. And to be blissed-out by a very special musical treat…
