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p>New from Atlas Cables is an upgraded version of its popular Equator interconnect. The Scottish company has improved the quality of the conductors within the cable, and fitted it with proprietary high-performance RCA plugs.  Described ...

Having used flat-panel loudspeakers to provide surround channels by reflection from walls in its Instant Theatre systems, KEF is now bringing the concept to a range of speakers designed for use with conventional AV amps and receivers. The ...

Using flatpanel speaker technology from NXT, outdoor and ski-wear company Spyder has developed a backpack with built-in amplification and stereo speakers, making it just the thing for everyone from snowboarders and skiers to students and business ...

Yes, it looks just plain odd, but this is Grundig's very affordable GUSW5000 wireless speaker system, yours for a few pennies under £100 from Tesco. It uses a 20w amplifier and a driver to give a 360degree spread of sound, and is said to ...

We've been recovering from our trips to the annual CEDIA UK Expo, a huge show covering all aspects of custom installation - oh, and wondering if it'll ever stop raining. Meanwhile down in the bowels of WHFSV Towers, dangerously close ...

By 2010, our love affair with home entertainment systems, computers and other electronic gadgets will mean a huge increase in domestic energy consumption, needing the equivalent of 14 average-sized power stations just to keep us informed and ...

After 10 years in production, The Chord Company's Chorus interconnect cable is being replaced - with Chorus 2! The new cable draws on a decade of research into shielding techniques, and is claimed to give significant improvements in dynamics ...

Now available is the latest sampler from the Naim label, the recording offshoot of the British hi-fi manufacturer. Claimed to be the company's best sampler yet, the disc covers a wide range of music from jazz to classsical, all recorded in ...

You can't tell whether the people behind the masks are smiling, but they probably are: LG has just brought in a new production method at its A3 plant in Gumi, South Korea, allowing it to get eight screens out of a single sheet of glass ...

Funny old day yesterday, writes Andrew Everard, sounding dangerously like Arkwright in Open All Hours. It started out with a demonstration of Musical Fidelity's massively powerful 550K Superchargers, which deliver something in the region of ...