Features
Nirvana Sound Hosts Rudy Van Gelder Studio's Live Streaming Event
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- Written by Travis Kelly Travis Kelly
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 18 May 2021 18 May 2021
On this particularly cold Melbourne Sunday, while the masses were braving the year’s first blast of winter, on the other side of town there was something warming up... two world-class 100kg Class-A Greek heavyweights. Enter here the audiophile’s new home of entertainment, team Nirvana Sound!
The Sydney Audio Club Meets at Bowers & Wilkins Australia
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 17 March 2021 17 March 2021
The Sydney Audio Club has been in ‘forced-lockdown’ and in full music quarantine for over a year. Like all other recreational entities, the buoyant organisation succumbed to the tyranny of the dreaded pandemic, forcing it to shut shop primarily for safety reasons while also in order to comply with Australia’s strict public gathering laws. Currently, with an ease in restrictions due to zero cases for nigh-on-two-months, the club re-emerges with one hell-of-a-meeting. Courtesy of Bowers & Wilkins Australia’s Sydney headquarters, no less.
Redgum Audio's Ian Robinson Interview
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 18 January 2021 18 January 2021
SoundStage! Talks: SoundStage! Australia’s Edgar Kramer talks to REDGUM Audio’s designer Ian Robinson about his personal journey from the 1980s to the present, and the “Goldilocks” effect applied to the company’s highly-acclaimed amplifiers.
Line Magnetic Australia Event at Perth’s Frank Prowse Hi-Fi
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- Written by Barry Jones Barry Jones
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 24 November 2020 24 November 2020
It’s official. Australia is now confirmed as ‘A Warm Place’ thanks to Line Magnetic showcasing its range of tube audio electronics and vintage-inspired horn loudspeakers at one of Perth’s premier audio dealers, Frank Prowse Hi-Fi.
Wilson Audio's Daryl Wilson on the SabrinaX Loudspeaker
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 09 November 2020 09 November 2020
SoundStage! Talks: Wilson Audio CEO Daryl Wilson sits down with SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer to chat about design philosophies for the new SabrinaX loudspeaker, what it means to design a Wilson Audio loudspeaker at any price level, and the music that moves and inspires him.
Duntech's Kiat Low Interview
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 29 October 2020 29 October 2020
SoundStage! Talks: SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer talks to Duntech Audio’s CEO, Kiat Low, about John Dunlavy’s legacy design philosophies and how they apply to the drivers, crossovers, and overall design of the company’s new Senator and Princess loudspeakers. Kiat Low also touches on the future reinvention of the iconic Duntech Audio Sovereign loudspeaker.
Feature: The Importance of Expert Analogue Rig Setup
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 22 September 2020 22 September 2020
Recently, the arrivals of a Transrotor Crescendo turntable and Reed 1X tonearm had this writer performing analogue system assembly acrobatics with the meagre remnants of near-zero muscle memory. After some brow swiping, I had the assembly of the various arm and turntable components finally completed. Next task was to tackle the complexities and inter-relationships of proper tonearm, cartridge and turntable adjustment. However, the skills and tools to properly do that are beyond me, leading to investigations on an aptly experienced and suitably equipped turntable set-up guru.
Björn Bengtsson Nordost Video Interview
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 04 September 2020 04 September 2020
SoundStage! Talks: Nordost's Björn Bengtsson talks to SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer about clocks, oscillations and synchronizations across the company's new QPoint Resonance Synchronizer and versatile QSource dedicated Linear Power Supply. Bengtsson also touches on his positive experiences and feedback demonstrating the QPoint and QSource to audio enthusiasts across a variety of systems around the world's biggest audio shows.
Mark Levinson and Master Class Video Interview
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 13 July 2020 13 July 2020
SoundStage! Talks: SoundStage! Australia Editor-in-Chief Edgar Kramer chats to Mark Levinson regarding Daniel Hertz and Master Class "Digital Cello Palette" Sound Enhancement software.
Peter Foster Halcro Video Interview
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 13 July 2020 13 July 2020
SoundStage! Talks: SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer talks to Halcro CEO Peter Foster about the rebuilding of the brand and where his group plans to take it.
Perfecting a Room – Vicoustic Room Acoustics Products
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 July 2020 01 July 2020
Having the best audio system in the world can amount to naught if it sits within the context of a room which suffers from a mediocre acoustic signature. Yes, every room has an inherent acoustic signature, or profile… sounds produced within it are influenced by the room’s dimensions, the materials employed in its construction, the objects within it and the relationships between its boundaries. Different loudspeaker designs will have distinctive environmental interactions ultimately resulting in varying degrees of influence on the sonic performance.
Feature & Interviews – The ‘New’ Duntech Audio & Halcro
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 15 April 2020 15 April 2020
Around the mid-1980s and again in the late 1990s, two Australian brands jolted the high-end audio industry with uniquely-designed and disruptively-engineered debut products… In fact, you could say Duntech Audio’s towering Sovereign loudspeakers and Halcro’s distinct super-low distortion dm58 monoblock amplifiers were quite revolutionary. In fact, revolutionary was the word used in Halcro’s dm58 review on Stereophile magazine while Duntech Audio’s flagship were said to be “the most neutral and accurate” loudspeaker design in the world.
