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StereoNET Hi-Fi Show Melbourne 2022 – Part 1
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 06 June 2022 06 June 2022
Yes, there’s something in the air… It’s the scent of warming circuitry and oscillating cones. Audio shows are back in business and punters are pumped for a ravenous gorge. After ‘the pan-bug’, for this writer it all started again at Mecca-Munich 2022. Actually, the rebirthed audio show phenomenon is spawning around the globe, even down to very small localised events peppering the calendar. Here in Australia, we’re off the starting block with the return of our own event. Ergo, the reanimation of the StereoNET show which launched in Melbourne for 2022 (energetic talks are already underway for Sydney in 2023). The venue was once again the Pullman/Mercure hotel complex. Entering the hotel lobby saw a monolithic Krix horn-loaded commercial cinema speaker of gargantuan scale. Promising… So were the three-day show’s Friday morning crowds which slowly, but steadily, snaked a line past Check-Point-Charlie at the two-hotel borderline.
SoundStage! Australia’s 10 Favourite Exhibits at High End Munich 2022
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 27 May 2022 27 May 2022
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “… Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” Barring the welcome navigation freedoms of the trade days – due to reduced press and industry representation from Asia – the consumer days’ throngs were a strong post-pandemic renaissance statement – High End Munich is back, unchanged like it never went away.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Perreaux Audio 200iX Integrated Preview
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 09 May 2022 09 May 2022
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this video, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer introduces the vivid colours of Perreaux Audio's powerhouse integrated amplifier, the 200iX.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Pitt & Giblin Superwax Speaker System Preview
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 09 May 2022 09 May 2022
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In video series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this episode, SoundStage! Australia's editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer introduces the unique Superwax active loudspeaker system from new Tasmanian company Pitt & Giblin.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Holbo Airbearing Turntable MK2 Preview
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 04 April 2022 04 April 2022
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this video, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer introduces the beautifully engineered Holbo Airbearing Turntable MK2 with included linear-tracking tonearm.
At the Crossroads of Audio – HeyNow Hi-Fi
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 March 2022 01 March 2022
It may be a relatively new player on Melbourne’s audio specialist landscape but HeyNow Hi-Fi sprouted from an inspired kernel to conceptual genesis. Steadily, and in a rather short time, the store has matured into a commanding force offering a veritable kaleidoscopic destination for some of the world’s best Hi-Fi.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Duntech Audio Senator Loudspeakers Preview
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- Category: Features Features
- Published: 24 January 2022 24 January 2022
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this video, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer briefly talks about the new Senator speakers from Duntech Audio, the brand once thought to produce the most accurate speakers in the world.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Estelon X Diamond Mk II Preview
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 18 November 2021 18 November 2021
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this video, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer briefly describes key aspects and hints at the performance of Estelon’s Classic Series top-ender, the X Diamond Mk II loudspeaker. Estelon is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Bowers & Wilkins 801 D4 Loudspeakers Preview
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- Category: Features Features
- Published: 24 September 2021 24 September 2021
The Lead-In series features products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStage! Australia. In this video, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer gives you a preview of and some insight into the brand-new Bowers & Wilkins 801 D4, which replaces the 800 D3 and is now the flagship speaker from this famous British brand. Did the B&W designers outdo themselves with the 801 D4? Watch this video to find out. And check back on SoundStage! Australia on October 15, 2021, to see the full review.
Sydney’s Reinvented Music Hot Spot: Audio Connection
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 20 August 2021 20 August 2021
In this writer’s view, there were only three high-end audio salons in the Harbour City in the 1990s able to demonstrate a wide sampling of the best high-end audio on the planet. Audio Connection was one. It had the largest and the most diverse representation despite having the most modest premises at the time. Back then, as a wet-behind-the-ears grommet surfing the waves of Sydney’s hi-fi scene, I longed for those unattainable pearls of desire. Coral-like beauties, down deep and alluring but beyond my reach on the water’s surface, an ocean of crispy greens between us. Yes, Audio Connection was the Barrier Reef of Sydney’s hi-fi scene. Expertly curated by my good friend Josef Riedeger, the store was crammed with the best exotica. His generous hand brought those coveted components closer to the shallows, within my reach, where I often delighted in netting them.
Yamaha 5000 System – A Room with a Different View
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 July 2021 01 July 2021
As culture evolves, language also changes. The lexicon can be shaped by societal movements, fashion, the media. Or, as we’re seeing, global events. Pfizer. AstraZeneca. Lockdown. Jab. Words previously with near-zero collective meaning are now ubiquitous. In the audio world there are also entrenched terms. Brand names. JBL, Tannoy, Marantz. There’s another definitive name which, uniquely and literally, can express the essence of music across an entire arc from instrument to the home and the stages in between: Yamaha.
Focal Powered by Naim Store Launches in Sydney
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 26 May 2021 26 May 2021
In line with an expanding strategy across the globe, Sydney’s Addicted To Audio newly renovated showroom launches with the incorporation of the ‘Focal Powered by Naim’ store experience.
