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In the world of HiFi, sometimes it's not as straight forward as connecting A to B.

So every Friday from  4th May 2012, Audio affair will be hosting a weekly #HiFiTechChat hour between 1pm to 2pm (GMT). Anyone can participate this event with their HiFi related issues or just looking for a geek to geek discussion.

How to join the chat

There are two ways to do so:

1) Twitter: Follow the #HiFiTechChat hashtag at the appointed time to see all of the tweets. Alternatively, you can follow through Twitter

Let's face it, we all rely on product reviews from other  fellow buyers before making that important purchase online. Two months ago, we've launched our very own product review system on Audio Affair, giving anyone the opportunity to post a review on over 5000 products. Below is a collection of some recent reviews posted by people just like you!

Yamaha EPH100 Earphones

These sound fantastic! The best earphones i have owned or listened to, they blow my prior CX300s out of the water. Dynamic, clear,

Happy 2012! Let's kick off this blog by thanking you, all of our customers for your support, participation and of course your custom throughout 2011. We greatly appreciate your business and have been glad to help bring better sounding music and movies to your lives. Looking back, we had some fab competitions on our Facebook and Twitter groups, including a giveaway of HMV vouchers, an iPad, 3 iPods and Ticketmaster vouchers, to name just a few. Don't worry if you missed out, we have even better prizes

DPD - A popular courier that we use to ship out the goods to our customers. Recently, DPD has launched a new facility that will enable the recipients to track their parcel or rearrange delivery easily and conveniently while on the move.

We've realised there's been an increasing number of our customers now using mobile devices, DPD has invested in developing a mobile website to ensure receivers can quickly locate the information they need regarding their delivery and, if necessary, make changes.

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To celebrate our 5th birthday, we are giving away £300 worth of Ticketmaster vouchers. We sell equipment to enjoy concert sound at home, now remind yourself of the real thing, enjoy a live experience and get yourself a concert ticket to see your favourite artist.

How to win?

During the 5 days from 27th October - 1st November 2011. Tweet a message to include the hashtag #AudioAffair5 (you can Tweet it directly from the bottom of this page), the more tweets containing the hashtag, the quicker we will

It's the 35th year since the launch of What HiFi, and this year comes the best HiFi awards ever. The list is long, ranging from radios to home cinema systems, AV receivers, stunning sound speakers and cables, almost everything you can think of -  they have a winner for it.

Cable Winners

Chord Crimson 2 Plus RCA Interconnects VEE

AV Receiver Winners

Onkyo TX-NR609 AV Receiver

Speakers Winners

Q Acoustics 2020 Speakers
ProAc Response D18 Speakers
Tannoy DC6T Speakers
Tannoy Mercury V4 Speakers

Radio

This month witnessed the biggest Open Day ever at Audio Affair – The High End Turntable Extravaganza. The Daddy of all audio equipment blew listeners away with some amazing new products and proved there is still very much life in the old dog yet !

Featured products were :

Roksan Xerxes
Thorens TD 309
Clearaudio Anniversary
Pro-ject Xperience
Roksan Radius 5.2

Attendees were truly dumb founded by the build quality of all these amazing turntables, all true heavy weights with looks to match. First to

Following on from last month's incredibly successful Valve Amp Open Day, this month followed the Music Server and Streaming Extravaganza !

With so many new models having been released this year, no other venue could have featured this dazzling array of tech.

Featured models were:

Olive 2
Olive 3HD
Olive 4HD
Olive 6HD
Ripnas
Zoneripper
Sonos PLAY:3
Yamaha NPS2000
Musical Fidelity M1 Clic

With so many Olive models to choose from, visitors were overwhelmed with choice ! The Olive 3 proved to be the

Industry changing product for multi room systems being more accessible (cheaper) and smaller than Sonos other systems to date.

This is a step to the future of a complete wireless speaker system, PLAY:3 from Sonos has a passive, rear-firering bass radiator for rich audio experience. Link it up to your internet router, to access a large database of internet radio stations and podcasts online, all from the control of your smartphone's application, or your desktop computer.

You will need to have one

The 3rd event of the summer at Audio Affair, as always, the open day is this Saturday at our Birmingham's showroom. For those of you can't join us, here are the details for the Twitter party this Friday.

When?

Friday 22nd July 2011, between 2pm - 5pm (GMT + 1:00).

What?

If you enjoy listening to music off your CD then this event is for you. We will be featuring a number of music servers from a list of popular brands such as Olive and Sonos. Tweeting photos and discussions between likeminded people