Crest Pushes Liquid Ears With New Brand Campaign
Brisbane-based The Crest Company is rolling out a new campaign for headphone brand Liquid Ears, aiming to drive sales for its personal wireless audio products to a younger demographic. Liquid Ears has...
View ArticleFormer Apple Acoustics Engineer Develops Premium Gaming Headphones
Apple’s former chief acoustics engineer Vic Tiscareno has developed a pair of gaming headphones named The Model One. Tiscareno was hired by Steve Jobs himself to head the iPhone maker’s acoustics...
View ArticleSoundboks Brings “World’s Loudest” Portable Bluetooth Speaker To Oz
Danish audio manufacturer Soundboks is bringing what it bills as the world’s loudest portable Bluetooth performance speaker to Australia. The New Soundboks Bluetooth Performance Speaker features a...
View ArticleSoundBeamer Hits Kickstarter – Are Days Of Headphones Numbered?
Headphone-less private listening is on its way to the masses with Israeli firm Noveto Kickstarting its SoundBeamer 1.0 device, slated for a December release. Previewed to the press late last year and...
View ArticleKEF’s New Uni-Core Technology Packs Mighty Bass into Super-Compact Subwoofer
Good things do come in small packages and bigger is no longer better when it comes to bass. British audio manufacturer KEF has released a new subwoofer technology called Uni-Core, designed specifically...
View ArticleHigh-End McIntosh Audio Gear Coming To Oz
Audio firm McIntosh has released a new vacuum-tube headphone amplifier and a two-channel SACD/CD player. The compact MHA200 headphone amplifier is powered by a pair of 12AT7 and 12BH7A dual triode...
View ArticleAudio Active Scores Two New Brands
Melbourne-based Audio Active has partnered with high-end US audio and home theatre brands Pro Audio Technology (PRO) and Theory Audio Design (Theory) for distribution in Australia. The partnerships...
View ArticleAudio Active Reveals New High-End Speakers
Canadian audio firm Paradigm has launched its new Founder Series of premium loudspeakers, distributed in Australia by Audio Active. The six-model range includes three floorstanders – the Founder 80F,...
View ArticleBack To Retro: Vinyl Sales Overtake CDs For First Time Since ‘86
Sales of the classic vinyl format in the USA have surpasses CDs for the first time in 35 years. According to the RIAA’s year-end report on the music industry, sales of CDs have increased steadily since...
View ArticleMarshall Fashionably Late with Wireless Ear Buds
Good things come to those who wait, and while Marshall has certainly taken its time to jump on the truly wireless ear buds market, its arrival is a stylish one. And, like an amp up to 11, explosive...
View ArticleCrestron Launch New Designer Speakers
Teaming up with Origin Acoustics, an award-winning leader in concealed loudspeakers, Crestron Electronics has launched a new range of speakers designed for residential in-wall, in-ceiling, and...
View ArticleKia Chooses Meridian Audio For New Kaio K8
Kia Corporation has teamed up with Meridian Audio for the automaker’s brand new K8 model. Meridian, the award-winning British audio pioneer, has created high performance audio products since 1977 and...
View ArticleREVIEW: JBL Xtreme 3 Portable Bluetooth Speaker
JBL’s latest addition to their bulging line-up is quite the disruptor. There’s no polite ringing of the doorbell by this party animal of a speaker; it’s straight round the back and making a splash...
View ArticleApple AirPods 3 Delayed Launch Tipped For Q3 2021
Apple has delayed the launch of its AirPods 3, with respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tipping the release to now fall in the third quarter of 2021. Kuo had originally estimated the AirPods 3 to launch in...
View ArticleRega Launches New Kyte Bookshelf Speakers
Rega has launched new bookshelf speakers built and designed in the UK. The new Rega Kyte speakers feature a phenolic resin cabinet with ceramic base plates and an internal cross brace construction,...
View ArticlePanasonic’s New Mini Hi-Fi Streams Hi-Res With Technics-Powered Speakers
Panasonic’s newest audio offering is a sleek-looking mini hi-fi system that focuses on enhancing CD playback quality; streaming in hi-res; digital radio; and providing ultimate connectivity with...
View ArticlePanasonic’s Slim New Soundbar Is Made To Be Heard, Not Seen
A new soundbar has just been dropped into Panasonic’s product lineup – the SC-HTB490 – and it’s being compared to Sonos Beam for its output quality. Most notably though, this is a slimline soundbar...
View ArticleInterdyn Brands Launches New SVS Subwoofers
Interdyn Brands has just added the SB-1000 Pro and PB-1000 Pro subwoofers to the SVS family of products, with both models compatible with SVS’s DSP smartphone app for accurate volume control, custom...
View ArticleGoogle’s Third-Gen Pixel Buds: ‘A’ For ‘Affordable’
Whispers around Google’s next wireless earbuds are emerging, and the clue is in the name. According to 9to5Google, the new release will be called the Google Pixel Buds A. The company used the ‘A’...
View ArticleHouse Of Marley Truly Wireless Stereo Speaker Duo
House Of Marley has released the Get Together Duo – truly wireless speakers that automatically connect to one another, creating rich and lively stereo output – or functional as two individual speakers....
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