Australian HiFi

Product failure is something that no-one likes talking about. One stand-out failure area that has affected the hi-fi industry for many years is the surround suspension used to allow loudspeaker cones to do their stuff. Originally, manufacturers used

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Kyron Audio, an award-winning Australian manufacturer of hi-fi loudspeakers and home music systems, has formed a partnership with fellow South Australian-based industrial design firm ARID to build protective face shields for essential workers. The tw

Auralic has updated its award-winning G2 and GX product ranges. The new models are the Aries G2.1 Streaming Transporter, Vega G2.1 Streaming DAC, Leo GX.1 Master Reference Clock and Sirius G2.1 Upsampling Processor. The biggest change involves the ch

Newport Test Labs measured the semi-anechoic frequency response of the Merlin S6 speakers as 90Hz to 40kHz ±3dB which is the response shown in Graph 1. As with any loudspeaker, if you operate it close to a boundary, such as a rear wall, the low-frequ

The golden-eared souls who review hi-fi components are, as you’d imagine, rather protective of their hearing, so when I fired-up the newest arrival in my sound room, I wondered just who had it in for me. The APL Hi-Fi DSD-AR, you see, has a programma

APL Hi-Fi started out as Alex Peychev Laboratories, named after founder Alex Peychev, but somewhere along the line it was decided that a catchier company name that better-described the company’s products would make more commercial sense, particularly

Given the unusual digital-to-analogue processing used in the APL Hi-Fi DSDAR, I was expecting some unusual results back from Newport Test Labs, and that’s certainly what I received. Graph 1 shows the APL Hi-Fi DSD-AR’s analogue output when it’s fed w

Respect All Lifeforms [ABC] Their time in the spotlight may long since have fizzled, but Custard’s quirks shine as bright as ever on their eighth studio album, such that it’s unequivocally their best post-reunion, no doubt due in part to the return o

Synæsthesia [Collision Course] It’s common to see bands try and cram every idea they’ve ever had into their debut album, often with sprawling and uneven results. But City Of Souls features seasoned stagers from New Zealand’s hardcore, rock and prog s

Dream Sweetheart [Aveline] Ned Roberts’ third album, Dream Sweetheart, opens on the bucolic strings of Falling Away, which fan out into a slow, steady beat. The London-based singer-writer’s light vocals complement gorgeous guitar textures throughout.

Live In Paris (1975) [Transversales] When he played tenor with John Coltrane in the 1960s, Sanders’ playing was wild and his tone was wincingly harsh. Listen to his playing on Alice Coltrane’s 1971 ‘Journey in Satchidananda’, and you’d barely credit