Joel is an experienced reviewer of hi fi equipment and has done so over many years.
Posts by Joel Kopping
Editorial August 2024
August 2024 The speed of life is simply staggering innit? Real life work balanced with AV News "work" is challenging but at the same time being busy places demands on music availability (I listen to [...]
Editorial June 2024
June 2024 I'm not even going to mention builders. Or the fact that I missed May. It's just been stupid busy. Spending time in front of an R3M sound system has been the highlight - [...]
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 - [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Editorial July 2023
July 2023 One of my favourite things is to attend hi-fi shows. Call them what you will it is a great way to see and hear much of what is available to we lucky few [...]
Editorial June 2023
June 2023 Halfway through the year and things in the country could be looking worse, I suppose. Loadshedding is wrecking my kit. My amps mainly stay on all the time - OK - in current [...]