Andrew Everard's blog
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 ...
PLAYLIST: February 2012
Disc of the month Super 8: fine film-making and superb sound Super 8 | Blu-ray | ***** Given Hollywood’s current enthusiasm for low-risk productions, it should be no surprise that so ...
Is the User Experience the future, and the TV factory the past?
(...Or 'How Japan's consumer electronics companies went from masters of the TV universe to "Holy s—, now what?"') Just about three months ago I wrote a blog post about the fears being expressed that 'Made in Japan' was proving unsustainably ...
Completely Neat
I missed out on hearing the Neat Iota speakers when they were launched at the Manchester Show last Autumn, but the buzz from those who were there was such that I put in a request for a review pair unheard.And having finally got my hands on a pair ...
PLAYLIST: January 2012
Disc of the month HBO’s flagship is a Blu-ray must-buy Boardwalk Empire: Season One | Blu-ray | ***** Thank heavens for HBO. While Britain’s own broadcasters seem mired in a repetitive spiral of talent shows and ...
David Lewis - 1939-2011
The death has been announced of the British industrial designer David Lewis, who over almost half a century shaped the design of one of the most iconic brands in consumer electronics, Bang & Olufsen.Born in London in 1939, David Lewis trained ...
