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Almost there now, people – the last part of this report from the D+M Group event in Valencia is all about music of the streaming variety.  Which is kind of ironic given that, for all the five-star grandeur of the Valencia hotel chosen ...

Apart from the AV products launched at this week's D+M group European conference, both Denon and Marantz had news on the pure audio front.And for all the suggestions in some quarters that affordable stereo components are going the way of the ...

Valencia is a place in a hurry: with just over a week to go before F1 engines are fired up in anger around its harbour for the European Grand Prix, the city is busy converting its streets, piers and bridges into a race-track, lined with safety ...

Here's a brief round-up of some of the tech stories you may have missed while you were trying to keep dry under your red, white and blue umbrella, keeping away from Jubilee overload, watching Fearne Cotton finding everything 'amazing', saving ...

Think Mitsubishi, and most UK enthusiasts will probably visualise one of these,  while the plane-spotters on the WHFSV Forums will probably think...  However, Mitsubishi Electric is a TV force to be reckoned with in its home ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...