Latest articles by Jez Ford
Jez Ford looks back on a formative – and hugely enjoyable – period in his career
Re-enter the Dragon! Richter rocks the room with the re-imagined return of the Aussie company’s famous Dragon floorstanding hi-fi speakers, resplendent in an all-new Series 7 Special Edition.
We sometimes find bargains in the pro and semi-pro headphones market, yet these Sennheiser ‘Pro’s are pushing into higher territory. So how do they perform?
A big secret at the Australian Hi-fi Show in Sydney, then revealed at HIGH END Vienna, and now released to the world: meet Yamaha’s active streaming NX-70A speakers
Samsung’s sonic abilities underwent a revolution in 2014 with the building of its California Audio Lab. For its first decade this Lab focused on soundbars and subwoofers. Now it has made a streaming speaker. Is this Year Dot for Samsung hi-fi?
Leica is launching a third projector leveraging the camera-maker’s special abilities with glass and lens manufacture – and the Cine Compact 1 marks a new affordable entry point to the luxury line.
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I have long been preaching that Atmos music is really for loudspeakers only. But Apple's latest overears are persuading me otherwise.
The boutique Sydney Central Hotel opened up four floors of suites and rooms to the Show’s sensational systems and sounds over three days...
Three new floorstanders include new Dragons and Wizards plus a premium standmount design, all notable for a new dome midrange and increasingly home-friendly design
A new 'gallery' presentation was launched with drinks, sushi and a wall of hi-fi at Audio Connection in Leichhardt, Sydney
It’s now a decade since Samsung revolutionised its soundbar designs with a new ‘lab’ in California. Its all-dancing range-toppers regularly win awards, but how do its lower soundbars perform?
We test the streaming files to establish whether Spotify’s long-awaited lossless delivery actually serves the bit-perfect quality it promises. Results were good, but there is a catch.
With its Mk2 flagship soundbar, JBL fights back to fully compete on sound quality, genuine immersion, bass (a lot of that) and especially musicality, a potential trump card for a hi-fi brand.
Kyron makes huge A$300k audio systems – but now the South Australian company has gone desktop
Forget the buttons, apps and Bluetooth signal throttling. Here’s a range-topping open-back headphone where you just plug in the cable and enjoy the magic.
Yamaha’s got a new beamer, bringing back its 'Sound Projector' technology to upgrade Atmos height channels on this premium package of soundbar, wireless sub and independent wireless rear speakers.
Every year TVs get better, HDR performance gets brighter. Here comes TCL with an EISA award-winner in sizes up to 98 inches; we got to know the 65-inch C8K, which can hit peaks of 4500 nits.
It's still out there, in a way. So let's dig down into a decade of lost Australian reviews from Australian Hi-Fi and Sound+Image magazines
The Horizon is the smaller of two pricey streaming stereo systems which epitomise Marantz's recent drive towards ‘luxury’ products and beautiful objects. But how's the sound?
From pianos and organs to wind-up gramophones and then the first 'Hi-Fi Player' in 1954, we trace the Japanese company's path through to today's production of wireless speakers, soundbars and high-end hi-fi
Expanding Sennheiser’s collection of cabled open-backed over-ear models, the HD 550 maintains the company’s balanced sound, so that their strongest competition may be from their own similar siblings.
