Sony XAV-64BT Product Review

Let the brilliant double DIN 6.1″ touch screen of the Sony XAV-64BT display entertains and informs you with an easy-to-use, advanced response interface sure to please. Pop in a DVD and turn your car into a mobile movie theatre  keeping everyone quieted down on long road trips. Quickly connect, charge and control your iPod, iPhone or music player via front USB 1-wire input. Gesture command and on-screen touch buttons make everything easier to control and separate audio and video power supply circuits provide added clarity. Connect your iPhone or iPod Touch via the optional RC-202IPV cable to playback video and audio...

KEF LS50 Review

Best standmounter £400-£800, Awards 2013. Simply brilliant Tested at £800 Our Verdict: 5 Stars Best standmounter £400-£800, Awards 2013. Simply brilliant For: Transparency, impressive resolution excellent bass for size fine build and finish Against: Demanding of partnering equipment In our experience, Anniversary products tend to be either high-end mega-money statements to show just what the company is capable of, or distinctly retro to show where it started. KEF’s new LS50 is neither. The marketing blurb goes on about connections to the fabled BBC LS3/5a mini monitor (which used KEF drive units), but the fact is that there’s little technical substance to link the...

Digital Designs DD-510-D4 x4 Hit a Mammoth 153.5dB!!

As the dB Drag Season has come back around it was finally time to test the 10″ x 4 Sub-Woofer Box that we got the 150.1dB with the entry level 10″ Sony’s. We had fitted the Digital Designs DD-510-D4 Sub-Woofers almost four to five months prior to this test and had only run them in on light music. From what I could tell they sounded quite good even though they were tuned higher to my personal preference since it is a ‘Burp’ box but in saying that the high tune suits Darryl’s musical taste to a tee. Since we had...

V 4 & Rotary SPL & Sounds Alive Sound Off Nationals January 2013 Update

It has been a long time coming that New Zealand would begin to be recognized once again around the world in the arena of dB Drags and SPL competition, That time has come! (“Terminator” 1985 by Wayne Harris {USA}) Over the past few years a die hard, yet small band of people have gathered together to compete for their respective classes, and strive to carve out a name for both themselves and the scene as a whole. While time goes on, faces change, and audio evolves, yet one thing remains, there will always be the “passion for the beast” that is SPL....