Andrew Everard's blog
Too expensive in Japan, and now in Korea, too? Top TV names look to China for the future of manufacturing
It's been a turbulent week or so in the TV business, starting with the news that Panasonic and Sony, once the driving forces of TV manufacturing, are looking to form a joint venture to develop OLED TVs in order to maintain competitiveness with ...
Onkyo: keeping the features race and sound quality in harmony
It's almost exactly five years since I visited Onkyo in Osaka: reporting from that trip back in May 2007, I said the company seemed to be 'an outfit with the established leaders of the European home cinema market - notably Denon and Yamaha - ...
HIGH END 2012: it started with a Munichorn (or three), and ended with an atomic Antelope and a stealth band
As a voice said, somewhere a few rows back on the 15.05 from Heathrow to Munich last Wednesday, 'It's almost the last real hi-fi show in the world'.That's quite a billing to live up to, but every year the show organised by Germany's High End ...
HIGH END 2012: Sony eyes European launch of its $27,000 SS-AR1 flagship speakers
The Sony SS-AR1 loudspeakers – the company's no-compromise design, already on the receiving end of accolades in the USA – could be coming to the UK.The floorstanding speakers, combining heavyweight birch and maple ply cabinets with ...
Shopping, 2012-style: will it be there, and will it be new?
The ability of British retail to shoot itself in the foot never ceases to amaze. While high-street and out-of-town retailers face an ongoing threat from those with no 'bricks and mortar' presence, for many purchases it's becoming ...
Linn joins the furniture trend with streaming sideboard, while Lenny Kravitz takes the Starck seat
Blimey, it's beginning to feel like I'm turning into whathifi.com's interior design correspondent! Yesterday it was IKEA's furniture/TV combinations, today it's Linn showing at the prestigious Milan Furniture Fair, with a sleek 'audio ...
Sonnets project rolls out the big guns of ancient instrument design
Monday is both St George's Day and Shakespeare's birthday, as you may have noticed from the fact we seem to be having a blizzard of Bard-related stuff coinciding with the run-up to what it's hard not to refer to as 'the Jubilympics'.Actually, ...
IKEA's move into home entertainment doesn't shame the industry – it just shows how the TV landscape is changing
Strange blog from the usually dispassionate DisplaySearch, gatherer of information and analysis to do with the flatscreen industry, suggesting that Ikea's announcement of furniture with integrated TVs 'shames' the consumer electronics industry.In ...
Audyssey Lower East Side Media Speakers: LES is more
The Audyssey Lower East Side Media speakers may be tiny, but they can kick up a storm... Just occasionally products slip through the WHFSV review net: we only have so many pages each month, and the competition for space can get ...
Naim lets the engineers do the talking about its high-end NDS network player
There's an unwritten rule in organising press events: Never let the engineers do the presentation. Too many times I've sat through endless sets of PowerPoint slides as the R&D people ...