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The Distortion Of Sound - The FilmOver the last six or seven years,while we were worrying about whether DSD sounded better than high sampling rate PCM,or if a SPDIF digital interface was superior to USB,an ever expanding majority of the music-consuming public had by listening exclusively to MP3 files off their laptop and phones.To aid substantially in making a case against lossy audio compression,Harman International Industries,the company behind a number of respected brands including JBL,Infini …

Welcome Fostex Pofessional Application Headphones.We have just welcomed Fostex Professional Application Headphones to Stereophonic.Fostex is a company that not everyone is familiar with,but it has a long and famous history,being founded in 1973.Fostex,along with Tascam,pioneered affordable multitrack recording equipment and was the first to offer an eight-track reel-to-reel multitrack that used affordable 1/4 inch tape.It competes with Tascam and Yamaha with a full line of products for the …

CD vs Vinyl - Some Vital DifferencesThere has been a lot of talk lately about how vinyl sounds superior to CD.There is a story I read recently about a teenager who was saying to her mother that all her friends had been getting record players and that she wanted to get a turntable too.Her Mum said that she had now moved on to CD's,to which the girl replied:"Oh Mum,you are so old fashioned!"So is it just the extra enjoyment that you get from taking a record out of it's sleeve and playing it on a t …

Congratulations to Stereonet.....For The Most Successful Melbourne HiFi Show EverHaving been involved in the Melbourne International HiFi  Show with Convoy Electronics  with the release of the JBL 4367 and our Music Hall presentation in the Record Fair....we would like to congratulate Stereonet on a very well run show at the Pullman Hotel at Albert Park.It was potentially the smoothest run HiFi show with the organisers ready for any potential and welcoming input.This truly was a speci …

Abbey Road Studios and Half Speed MasteringThe world famous Abbey Road studios brought to fame by being the studios where The Beatles  recorded their legendary albums are back in the spotlight again with Universal Music's new Half Speed Mastering Series.Award-winning Abbey Road mastering engineer Miles Showell has been commissioned to Half Speed Master the first batch of limited edition releases of six bona fide  rock classics.The albums in this release are Cream's Disraeli Gears,The R …