Editorial April 2024
April 2024 The Great Construction continues. Slowly. What started off as a two week 'just tile the damned room and paint it' has revealed several, ahem, challenges. OK they're not challenges. They're bloody expensive problems [...]
Editorial March 2024
March 2024 It's been a long term dream of mine and it's finally beginning. Whether it takes a year or three remains to be seen but the Great Construction Project of 2024 has commenced - [...]
NAD C658 BluOS Streaming DAC
VITAL STATS Model C 658 Formats supported MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, WMA-L, ALAC, OPUS High Res MQA, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, Supports converted DSD playback Sampling rates & bit depth 32bit/192kHz; 16-24bit Frequency Response 20H z [...]
Editorial February 2024
February 2024 2024 has leapt off with a massive bang and not on the AV side I am afraid. "Real Life" has kept me away from my toys far more than I would have liked [...]
Editorial January 2024
January 2024 It's going to be a big year no matter which we slice or dice it. Events in the world at large are happening everywhere and the winds of change are ever blowing. Locally [...]
Editorial November 2023
November 2023 Black November or otherwise? I see that some are now punting that Black November specials should be vetted for being 'specials'. Who would have thought that a retailer in these tough times might [...]
Editorial October 2023
October 2023 The war of the formats ala continua... We haven't had much to say in recent times over the war of formats. It's the ongoing unstoppable object meeting the immovable force debate and as [...]
NAD C298 Power Amplifier
VITAL STATS Model C 298 Power Output 2 x 185W into 8 ohms, 2 x 340W into 4 ohms, 620W into 8 ohms, single channel bridged mode Frequency Response 20H z to 20 kHz Signal [...]
Cape Town Hi-Fi Show
This is a big deal. An industry that has not had a meaningful show for some time is reviving and the proof of the pudding is in the fact that investments into a hi-fi show [...]
Editorial September 2023
September 2023 What can we say? It's NAD, NAD, NAD and..... PSB month this month. We have some cool toys from, yes, you guessed it , NAD to play with this month. At the moment [...]
Skyworth bags claim to SA’s biggest QLED at 100″
Yup. 100" of QLED is the claim made at the Skyworth 2023 tech road show held in Jhb yesterday. Skyworth is one of those brands that perhaps you've seen floating around in the mass market [...]
Editorial August 2023
August 2023 One of my least favourite things to do is to attend hi-fi shows! Have a read of the July Editorial for my opening line there... I am taking some poetic license here. It [...]