Naim Future Of Hi-Fi Evening at Audio Trends

Australia - 10 May, 2013 - Audio Trends is pleased to invite you to a unique Naim Future Of Hi-Fi evening happening 6:30pm Wednesday 15th of May at Audio Trends - 10 Argent Place, Ringwood. Join us for an evening with Naim's Australian Distributor Chris Murphy and Naim Audio's vision for the future of hi-fi. Also come along and be in with a chance to win a Naim Power-Line mains cable on the night. Read More

Cambridge Audio 752BD Blu-ray Player awarded 5 Stars by Home Theatre

USA - 3 May, 2013 - The new 752BD Universal Blu-ray player is the culmination of all that Cambridge Audio have learned about sound and picture quality with a few new tricks thrown in as icing on the cake.

Stereophile's Home Theatre magazine has just reviewed the 752BD and has awarded a full 5 out of 5 Stars for Performance. To say they were impressed is an understatement which is corroborated by Audio Trends Director Simon Lee who has recently replaced a 751BD  in his home cinema system with the new 752BD and vows and declares it's the best thing since sliced bread with sound quality, in particular, that is cutting edge. Read More

Australians Descend On SIM2 Headquarters In Italy

Italy - 23 April, 2013 - Standing proud in the home theatre and digital cinema landscape, dominated by multinational giants, is an Italian company recognized as the epitome of excellence: SIM2. A business that has been taking on and overcoming the challenges laid down by the market and new technologies time and again; earning itself an outstanding reputation worldwide for the innovation, performance, quality and design of its Projector range. SIM2 is the reference standard brand for motion picture and visual communication professionals, as well as for home theatre enthusiasts who demand the best.

Recognised the world over as one of the pre-eminent brands in home theatre projectors, SIM2 is based in Perdenone - Italy. SIM2 recently played host to some very important guests from Australia including Audio Trends own General Manager: Mark Hales. Arrayed in their finest sterilised hats, coats and booties, Mark and the team can be seen touring SIM2's famous clean room research and development facilities. For a closer look please click here.

Audio Trends Wins HAI 2013 Five Star Dealer Award

USA - 19 April, 2013 -  In a real coup for Australia, American company HAI (Home Automation, Inc) announced today at the International Security Conference in Las Vegas that Audio Trends is a recipient of its 2013 Five-Star Dealer recognition program.

HAI’s annual Five-Star Dealer program was initiated in 2001 to recognize and reward select outstanding dealers. Recipients are selected based on various criteria including the number of years the dealer has been installing HAI solutions, the number of systems installed in the previous year and unique marketing or programming solutions that involve HAI products. Read More

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20 Best Home Technology Breakthroughs of Past 20 Years

USA - 16 April, 2013 - The Home Technology industry has been busy in the last 20 years. CE Pro magazine has compiled a list of the  20 home technology breakthroughs that have been commercialized or popularized since 1993 and are innovations that really drove the industry forward. Click through the photo gallery to see the Top 10 list. Read More

News Flash: Sony announces FMP-X1 4K Media Player

USA - 9 April, 2013 - Engadget, a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics has just reported that Sony plans to release the FMP-X1 4K Media Player in the next few months. They also report a 4K Distribution Service will be rolled out soon after. Fingers crossed they both come to Australia ASAP. Read More

Paradigm Shift Soundtrack scores a Highly Recommended Award

UK - 3 April, 2013 - Sound Bars have experiencing massive growth over the last year and now Paradigm's new Sound Bar, the Soundtrack, has been released to eager customers. The Soundtrack has just been enthusiastically reviewed and given a Highly Recommended Award by AV Forums.  Read More

News Flash: Oppo now plays DSD files

USA - 28 March, 2013 - Stereophile's Kalman Runinson writes: "There has been a lot of buzz lately generated by show demonstrations of DSD recordings played directly from files and as the opportunity to download DSD files is expanding (Read More About DSD). The reactions of our writers have ranged from "impressive," to an "epiphany," to my own delight reported in the upcoming May issue of Stereophile. The hardware used has been mostly professional (Sonoma workstation) or semi-professional (Mytek Stereo 192-DSD) or, at the very least, costly enough for the unconvinced to hesitate. Now, in one fell swoop, Oppo has made this possible at no cost at all for those of us who own an Oppo BDP-103 or BDP-105." Read More About The Oppo DSD Upgrade

SIM2 Nero Cheaper in OZ than USA - Stunning Review by CE Pro

USA - 26 March, 2013 - Great News, the SIM2 Nero 3D-1 projector is less expensive here in Australia than in the USA. The Nero 3D-1 with either the T1 or T2 lens sells for $12,999 here whereas it's $15,000 in the US. But wait there's more! If you purchase a SIM2 Nero (or any SIM2 projector) in Australia you get complimentary home calibration by an ISF Certified technician from Avical which would normally cost $800. In October last year, before the recent price drop, the good folk at CE Pro gave the Nero 3D-1 an absolutely glowing review. Read More

4K Ultra Hi Def Television to take off in 2013

USA - 19 March, 2013 - Still wondering when 4K (Ultra HD) is going to take off? The latest Quarterly Large Area TFT Panel Shipment Report predicts a whopping 2.6 million 4K TV panels will ship by the end of 2013. Read More

Superb NAD M50 and M52 Review From The Ear

UK - March 12, 2013 - In the latest equipment report on The-Ear.net, the UK based high-end audiophile website, editor René van Es applauds the ‘jitter-free sound’ of NAD’s M50 Digital Music Player and M52 Digital Music Vault in his detailed review. Backed with one of Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovations Design and Engineering honouree awards, the M50 is what digital natives have been waiting for, and bridges the gap between music collections stored on a computer and those played on a stereo system. Read Story

The Much Anticipated SONOS PLAYBAR Is Finally Here

USA - March 5, 2012 - Released today, PLAYBAR’s nine-speaker design floods any room with HIGH FIDELITY audio for games and movies, huge waves of live concert sound, and wireless streams of all the music on earth. And it all comes from one easy-to-use player that brings HiFi sound to your high-definition TV. Leading UK Magazine, What Hi-Fi? has given the PLAYBAR a rare 5 Star rating. Read More

Happy Birthday to the LP: Can you believe it's 65?

UK - February 28, 2013 - Technically the 33⅓ rpm Long Playing record should be retiring this year. After all it’s reached 65 and if it were an Australian citizen would be eligible for the old age pension. The LP, however, is showing quite a lot of spirit this late in its career and is in fact continuing to sell more and more as each year passes. Here at Audio Trends it makes us smile when we see the increasing number of turntables being snapped up by eager customers of all ages. To those of us who grew up with records it seems a bit like déjà vu and we’re not just talking Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. There really is something wonderfully tactile about putting on a piece of vinyl that just doesn’t happen with any digital medium. So, Happy Birthday to the Long Playing record and may there be many more to come. Read Story

Yamaha RX-A3020 Receives 5 Stars from What Hi-Fi

UK - February 19, 2013 - Pre-eminent British Audio Visual Magazine What Hi-Fi? has gone absolutely bonkers over Yamaha's Aventage RX-A3020 AV Receiver. They not only awarded Yamaha's finest 5 Stars but gave it top marks in a bruising group test involving the best of the best AV Receivers. Stand out quotes from the stand out review include - "The competition has never been fiercer at this price, but the brilliant Yamaha RX-A3020 stands out as a true best-in-class product." "The sound is incredibly powerful and involving ... this really is what home cinema is all about"

What Hi-Fi?'s verdict: "Exciting and dynamic with movies, detailed and subtle in stereo. A true all rounder." Hear what the Yamaha RX-A3020 can do today. On display at Audio Trends. Read Story

Japan to broadcast 2014 World Cup matches in 4K Ultra High Definition

Japan - January 30, 2013 - With the Sony Sony VPL-VW1000ES 4K projector becoming one of our hottest selling products, we thought it was high time some serious sporting action became available in 4K Ultra High Definition. Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications (JIAC) must have heard us because it just announced it is studiously making preparations to broadcast the 2014 World Cup matches in glorious clear 4K Ultra High Definition. According to a report from the Asahi Times, the JIAC will be broadcasting the matches using its own communications satellites instead of broadcast satellites. This is great news for sports lovers and hopefully heralds the start of a flood of 4K content coming our way over the next couple of years. Read Story

Stream Music directly from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to your Sonos

Australia - January 29, 2013 - As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, anyone fortunate enough to own the wonderful Sonos wireless muusic streaming system can now play music directly from any Apple iDevice such as an iPhone or iPad. Even if you're not fortunate enough to own a Sonos system, you can still enjoy playing music from your iPhone etc through your friend's Sonos system when you visit their house. Of course immediate envious Sonos emotions are guaranteed and here at Audio Trends we can help you satisfy your longing for the best music streaming systems available. Read Story

Australian Music Streaming Services Compared

Australia - January 26, 2013 - Want to know where to get music for your Sonos? CNET Australia has compared all the music streaming services available in Australia to find out which is the right one for you. From simple free streaming apps to subscription music streaming services the CNET list should have something for everybody. Read Story

New Oppo BDP-105 Universal Disc Player Previewed

USA - January 26, 2013 - Chris Martens from The Absolute Sound's sister magazine The Perfect Vision previews the new Oppo BDP-105 Universal Disc Player and is very impressed. We now have the BDP-105 and the lower priced BDP-103 in-store and they are selling like hot cakes! Visit us at 10 Argent Place, Ringwood, Victoria to see what all the fuss is about. Read Story

Paradigm Millenia CT Desktop System

USA - January 25, 2013 - Stereophile's sister magazine Inner Fidelity have given the new Paradigm Millenia CT System a rave review. Steve Guttenberg said "The wee speakers and sub deliver a very grown up sound...will happily play really loud...and they never sounded like they were running out of gas. The Millenia CT offers bona-fide bang for your audiophile bucks." Read Story