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Problem#1: Poor dialogue intelligibility

The sad fact is that today's televisions have very poor quality internal speakers, resulting in awful dialogue intelligibility. Poor dialogue intelligibility inevitably results in you diving for the TVs remote and turning up the volume. Now you have a situation where the TV volume is too loud, which annoys your partner, but the dialogue is still unintelligible, just louder.
Solution: SR175 Sennheiser Wireless Headphone and happy life...

After weighing up the pros and cons – I couldn’t fault the idea.

Recently when visiting a good friend of mine, he insisted I take a listen to a particular track that he assured me would make his system sound even better than its remarkable looks. So off he disappeared into his CD library which covered the walls of an adjoining room like wallpaper. Upon his long-awaited return and well after the last sip of my cup of tea and bite of Spanish torte, he victoriously waved his right hand clutching...

LES DAVIS AUDIO 3D-2 Constrained Layer Dampers

Would you believe that a few discs, 50mm in diameter and each less than a millimetre thick can make a substantial audio improvement on any Turntable? And not just your turntable audible improvements can be heard on each component of your system thanks to the deceptively simple Len Davis Audio 3D(2) Discs.

Mechanical Resonance is a phenomenon in which an object or system is subjected to an oscillating force with a frequency close...

Vinyl: the retro-cool factor

LP’s deliver a true to life performance often unmatched by standard-resolution digital audio.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to experience a good LP playback system, I’d encourage you to pay us a visit and ask our staff to playback a record for you. There’s even a good chance that you’ll find music you like within our LP collection.

How much should you spend on a turntable? You should dedicate a greater proportion of your budget to the components...

Loudspeakers

Speaker designer Andrew Jones is the master of creating award-winning speakers with remarkable sound quality and on a small budget. Well known for his work with KEF, Infinity and Pioneer/TAD, he has most recently created a whole new range of amazingly affordable loudspeakers and electronics – this time under the umbrella of hi-end German speaker manufacturer ELAC. The aim; to bring audiophile quality to the masses.

Andrew caused a sensation at T.H.E...

Who is Naim?

The NAIM brand is very well known in the specialist audio industry, and for a very long time. Officially founded in 1973 by Julian Vereker in Salisbury, England, NAIM is now recognised as one of the world’s best producers of audiophile products. It all started when Julian – recording his friends playing live – found that playback on his system at home fell very short of the experience he craved. Ignoring accepted wisdom, he focused on aspects of performance...

The Amplifier

It’s a well-known fact that we’re able to listen to music because the speakers’ drivers vibrate back and forth forcing the air all around them to vibrate as well. These vibrations are what stimulate our ears, permitting our brain to interpret it, and us to enjoy the music! To produce this physical movement, the loudspeaker drivers require energy in the form of amplification power, and the more power available, the more accurately the drivers are controlled by the amp...

What is Dolby Vision?

Dolby VisionTM transforms the way you experience movies, TV shows, and games with incredible brightness, contrast, and colour that bring entertainment to life before your eyes. By fully leveraging the maximum potential of new cinema projection technology and new TVs’ display capabilities, Dolby Vision delivers high-dynamic-range (HDR) and wide-colour-gamut content. The result is are ned, lifelike image that will make you forget you are looking at a screen.
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Welcome to our second instalment on the innovative technologies employed in the new Focal Sopra Loudspeaker, this one focusing on the design of the midrange section. Midrange frequencies are undoubtedly one of the most complex areas of a speakers design and the most demanding musically, it is also a key element of the sound signature of all Focal Loudspeakers. The performance of the midrange driver is critical. On one hand, there must be a smooth transition to the bass driver, while on the other...

As a lead up to our Special Focal/Naim Event on the 20th of Feb, this is the first instalment in a series of blogs that will give some insight into the design elements that give Sopra its unique look and sound. In this instalment, we discuss the High-Frequency section. In the Utopia Series Loudspeaker, Focal has created a flagship range, globally recognised, but out of the reach of many consumers. The Sopra is an exercise in passing down the new technologies inspired by what they have learned from...