Australia 2014

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Australia 2014
An Interview With Krix Loudspeakers' Donald MacKenzie
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 26, 2014
Krix Loudspeakers set up shop two doors down from my hotel room. The name sounded interesting so I popped in. I met the company's National Consumer Products Manager Donald MacKenzie and decided to share with you the Krix Loudspeaker story.

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It's Store! It's a Home! It's a Home and a Store!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 25, 2014
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Australian Audio & AV Show Melbourne, Small But Lively and Well Attended
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 19, 2014
The venue for the 3 day Australian Audio & AV Show was the stunning Intercontinental Melbourne The Rialto Hotel a former wool storage facility turned into a glass covered atrium with dual antique brick facades and gothic style glass windows facing and connected to one another via cross-bridges. An elegant ground floor restaurant is on the lower level.

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Living Large With Osborn Grand Monument Reference Loudspeakers
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 19, 2014
The "one man" Osborn Loudspeaker Company displayed only a small part of its 40 model range, including the top of the line Grand Monument Reference a very large monolith of a speaker weighing in at approximately 385 pounds each.

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Where There's A TechDAS Air Force One Turntable There Must Be Other Good Stuff
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 19, 2014
Vinyl simply wasn't a major event at this show, though it was there. When I noticed the Pure Music Group was demoing the TechDAS Air Force One turntable with the Thales Simplicity II tonearm I figured the room might have some other interesting analog gear.

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Is Kyron Audio's Kronos the Best Sounding System You Will Ever Hear?
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 18, 2014
Kyron Audio's Kronos system consisting of a pair of open baffle 3 way speakers and a dedicated amp/preamp in a single box is everything I can honestly say I hate about audio: the amplifiers are Class "D", the system uses DEQX™ digital room correction and there's enough processing going on here to befuddle a mainframe.

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