Hi-Fi-Insight News and Reviews (2)
HTC Diamond
September 10th, 2008
Although this site usually concentrates on high-end audio, we also try to give information on portable media such as mp3 players and in this case a mobile phone with mp3 capabilities. The HTC Diamond is essentially a rival to Apple's iphone which on paper ups the ante as far as mobile communications go.
The HTC Diamond measures 100 x 50 x 10 mm and weighs just 110g yet manages to incorporate GPRS, 3G/7.2mps HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, 192mb of Memory and 4gb of internal storage. Yet the thing that makes the HTC Diamond the phone to have at the moment is the wonderfully easy to use graphical touchscreen, which HTC call TouchFLO 3D. [...]
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Arcam FMJ AVR600 HD Receiver
September 6th, 2008
Hot on the heels of the two "credit crunch" entry level FMJ products we reported on the other day, comes an absolute beast of a machine from Arcam, a state of the art seven channel high definition home cinema receiver that intends to muscle in on the far eastern competition. The Arcam FMJ AVR600 HD Receiver is not officially launched until November and will set you back a hefty £2300 in the UK, which sounds like a lot of money, but is actually extremely competitively priced when you compare the specification against the likes of the Marantz SR9600 (£2500) and the flagship Denon and Pioneer models that will set you back at least £4000.
The Arcam FMJ AVR600 HD Receiver adopts a very minimilist design ethos with most of the controls tucked away under a neat front panel. Arcam have put a huge amount of time into this product and have not rushed this product to the market but waited until the High Definition market has established itself slightly and the all important price of chipsets have come down in price. By doing this, Arcam has been able to focus a larger part of the FMJ AVR600's budget into the things that really matter - sound quality and performance. This means that not only will the FMJ cater for all the new Blu Ray/HD audio formats such as DTS-HD Master & High Resolution, Dolby TrueHD & Digital Plus but it can also at a flick of a switch turn into a high-end two channel power amplifier. [...]
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Sennheiser MX W1 Wireless Headphones win EISA award
September 3rd, 2008
Since their launch earlier this year, the Sennheiser MX W1 wireless headphones have caused quite a stir in the hi-fi world and last week in Berlin, Sennheisier were awarded Best Product 2008-2009 by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) for this product.
The Sennheiser MX W1 headphones are one of the very few wireless audio products to use the new Kleer technology which operates on the 2.4 ghz frequency range like every other wireless product but is less prone to interference and offers far superior sound quality. [...]
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Arcam FMJ A18 Integrated Amplifier
September 3rd, 2008
The Arcam FMJ A18 integrated amplifier is the second of two new products being launched in September to supersede the entry level Diva range of products and to also offer consumers affordable "quality" hi-fi at a time when there is a lot of economical doom and gloom in the country.
Priced at just £450, the Arcam FMJ A18 integrated amplifier is a truly affordable audiophile product featuring many things found in amplifiers far more expensive. For your money, you get an amp that offers fifty watts per channel, a high quality "logic controlled" pre-amplifier, a moving magnet phono amplifier stage (remember those?) complete with sound and build quality far superior to the Arcam Diva A70, the amplifier the FMJ A18 replaces. [...]
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Arcam FMJ CD17 CD Player
August 29th, 2008
The Arcam FMJ CD17 CD Player is one of two new products being launched by Arcam this autumn to provide high quality audio to those on a tight budget. The new Arcam FMJ CD17 CD Player is sensibly priced at a very reasonable £500 and replaces the entry level DiVA model, the Arcam Diva CD73.
Inside the new Arcam FMJ CD17 CD Player is a state of the art Wolfson 8741 digital to analogue converter, a very precise digital clock that plays such a big part in the CD player's timing and dynamics, some very fine audio grade components and a high quality power supply which uses a low noise torroidal transformer to feed the digital, analogue and servo parts of the CD player which all get their own regulated "star" earthed power supply. [...]
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