Gemini Man on UltraHD Blu-ray – wow!
The Will Smith action thriller Gemini Man has largely received reviews amounting to meh. But I’m telling you, you really must buy this. But not for the reasons...
Thomas Bartlett
Naim, Focal and Bentley team up
BusiSoft AV, Australian distributor for both brands along with a bunch of others, tell us that UK hifi electronics firm Naim and French hifi speaker firm Focal...
Proposed Bargaining Code has Google in a tizzy
If you’ve been to the Google search engine or YouTube lately, you may have seen a dire warning about how new regulations are likely to cause problems for Austr...
Has the RCA cable disappeared?
We live in weird times. Today I went to what purports to be a hifi shop – hey, it’s in the name! – to buy the most common of audio cables. That’s the good old ...
Netflix is throttling back Australia in the time of Coronavirus
After a modestly late night of work last night, it was time for a bit of Netflix. Running through the options, I found that I’d only watched the movie Hanna ha...
White Balance – what’s all that about?
When we’re re viewing TVs and cameras and all other kinds of video and imaging equipment, we care about colour. All those gadgets are very smart about colour a...
Sennheiser 75th anniversary: something new and something special
Back in 1945, just after the war ended, Sennheiser started producing electrical products. This year the company is celebrating the Sennheiser 75th anniversary ...
Focal speaker drivers, handbuilt
The other day I wrote about the French loudspeaker manufacturer Focal’s Bourbon-Lancy factory. That’s where it makes its wooden loudspeaker enclosures. They ar...
Focal Loudspeakers, handbuilt – the enclosure factory tour
I had to ask one of our guides what “Focal Ebenisterie Bourgogne” meant. The words were on a sign over the door of a factory we were about to enter. Well, Foca...
Panasonic Televisions in Australia – R.I.P.
Panasonic Australia has announced that it is withdrawing from the Australian TV market. It will sell the remaining Panasonic televisions that are in stock, and...
Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum gaming keyboard – three years on
Okay, you can’t buy the Logitech G810 keyboard anymore. It seems that the Logitech G910 is the current version. It has more keys for specific gaming functions,...
Technics Returns to Australia
Panasonic’s high-ish end audio brand, Technics, is now back in Australia following a swish event in Sydney last night. Not all of Technics, but three lines fro...
Thomas Bartlett
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Thomas has been a tech-head since high school. He was that guy who soldered up mains-powered MusicColour boxes and strobe lights for the school social (schools were lackadaisical about student safety in those days). Later he taught himself computer coding, first BASIC, then PASCAL, then Assembler. Ever since those school days he’s been a music lover, and a hifi lover. He has written thousands of published reviews over the past couple of decades.