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WD ups its Red NAS drives to 6TB
Larger-capacity Western Digital Red models designed for use in housings up to eight bay – a 48TB NAS, anyone? Must be some kind of synchronicity: just as I was looking at my existing music storage system and working out how long it would be before the existing 3TB drives were full, along comes a press […]
Gibson completes acquisition of Philips consumer electronics brands
Audio, video, multimedia and accessories operations join Onkyo and TEAC in the stable of the 120-year-old guitar company UPDATE Gibson Brands, Inc. has confirmed it has completed the acquisition of WOOX Innovations, the audio, video, multimedia and accessories business of Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips. The 120-year-old Nashville-based company says the deal ‘marks a major […]
Linn Records rethinks digital music strategy as Studio Masters gain in popularity
Scottish label’s Studio Master releases to be available worldwide through other online stores; from August Linn Records site will only sell its own releases Linn Records is refocusing its digital distribution strategy, in a move set to see the company’s 24-bit Studio Master content available via other digital music stores worldwide from next month. At […]
Focal & Naim acquired by French-based investment companies Naxicap Partners and Aquasourça
New investors to boost companies under new name: Vervent Audio Group Focal & Naim, the company formed by the merger of the British audio company and the French speaker manufacturer, has a new name: from today, following its acquisition by French based investment company Naxicap Partners and private equity firm Aquasourça, it’s now called Vervent […]
Naim mu-so is a radical all-in-one network music system
Selling for £895 when it goes on sale in September, mu-so packs Wi-Fi, UPnP, Bluetooth and AirPlay, along with six speakers driven actively by 450W of digital amplification – and Android app control! This is the Naim mu-so: launched in April as Muso, but now renamed mu-so in time for its on-sale debut in September […]
Caroline Osborn: 1945-2014
Doyenne of the What Hi-Fi? Buying Guide for more than 30 years – and my beloved best friend (and best man) Caroline Osborn, who died on March 24th, was for more than 30 years the driving force behind the What Hi-Fi? Buying Guide. After working as a diamond sorter among other jobs (she once […]
Linn offers four weeks of free high-resolution music for Christmas
Teaser track from Handel’s Messiah already online, then three-track Studio Master download kicks off festive campaign on December 1 Whether you’re a fan of high-resolution music or not yet sure what all the fuss is about, Linn is giving you the chance to explore further with its 24-bits of Christmas promotion, offering a free Studio […]
WD boosts its My Cloud offering with four-bay NAS solution
My Cloud EX4 designed for ‘ultimate reliability’, offers up to 16TB of storage To say I’m quite a fan of Western Digital’s WD Red hard drives is something of an understatement: I’m now running two NAS units using six of drives – a four-bay as a main server, a two-bay as a backup – and […]
Pure’s new Deutsche Grammophon radio – who you callin’ yeller?
I don’t usually go a bundle on ‘special edition’ audio products – they’re pretty much fashion-driven, and as such tend to go out of style faster than things that go out of fashion very quickly. There have been some horrors pushed out onto the market over the years, including Ferrari-branded headphones looking like industrial […]
Bang & Olufsen delivers Immaculate Wireless Sound with new BeoLab speaker models
New speaker models with WiSA wireless transmission include the BeoLab 18, a striking replacement for the classic BeoLab 8000, and a dodecahedronal subwoofer, the BeoLab 19 Immaculate Wireless Sound: it’s something of a claim, but that’s the label Bang & Olufsen is putting on its new range, designed to deliver everything from stereo to full […]
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