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It can be a challenge to get the speakers in your hi-fi or home cinema sounding at their best in your listening room, but it’s more straightforward than you might think and simply requires a little patience and some handy tips.

1) Keep away from the walls
Your speakers should be at a distance of one foot or more from the rear and side walls. If your speakers are too close to the wall you may experience “boomy” bass.  Experiment with positioning of your speakers as much as you can until the level

In a move to better present and display Chord's interconnects, they have recently introduced a brand piece of packaging. Moving away from the old black and orange (chocolate) cardboard box, and replaced by a brand new wooden box and printed sleeve.

Let's hope this change will have the same positive impact and feedback, as the sample they have had when they were first seen.

All interconnects from Cadenza to Indigo Plus inclusive, and their Power Chord's will now be delivered in the new boxes

Claus from Olive was kind enough to come and give us a demonstration on two of its best units from their range of Olive Music Servers. Below are the two videos featuring the Olive 3HD Music Server and the all new Olive 6HD Music Server.

We know how important it is for our customers to be able to visualise a product before making a purchase. "A picture speaks a thousand words" as they say, but we have gone a step further, no, we have gone 360 steps further. Making a product to be viewable at every angle in 360 degrees. Take a look at the Vita Audio R2i DAB Radio & iPod System and the Acoustic Energy Aego M Active Speakers 2.1 System, the 360° view is located at the middle of the page, just drag your mouse over the image and

Nordost transformed everyone's expectations 20 years ago on the audio cable performance with the original Flatline loudspeaker cable. Now here is something even more exciting.

By putting together a proven and proprietary technology and superior material, with the hard won knowledge that enabled Nordost to create the game-changing Valhalla and Odin cables. Nordost has been able to produce the new Leif (say “Life”) Series, this is an entry-level cable line that shows the beginning of a new chapter

Following months of feverish technical development at the Chord Company, they have now announced the introduction of the Chord VEE plug.

After the improvement in sound quality that most of us have experienced with the acrylic plugs that are fitted to the Sarum, Signature and Indigo interconnects, they have used very similar technology and applied it to the more cost effective product lines.

VEE stands for Vibration Eliminating Enclosure, the Chord VEE plug actually uses a very unique

What do you think of when you think of hip hop and gangsta rap? It's a genre typically - though not consistently - grounded in the 'guns, b*tches and bling'  thematics, when it's not focusing on civil or political elements. Arrested Development - formed by the hip hop artists Speech and Headliner - decided to take the genre on a different route: one of spirituality, of peace and of positivity . Their début album 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of was released in 1992 and peaked at #3

2010 has been a fantastic and exciting year for Audio Affair, we continued to provide all our customers with a wide range of top quality hi-fi equipment and home cinema systems. In 2011 we are looking at ways to improve our website further with new additional features for our onilne store and new ways to boost up our social networks.

Price Match

At Audio Affair we understand that getting the price right can be quite important for some customers, therefore we have introduced a price match request

The Gadget Show filmed a feature in our store on Tuesday. Can't say what it's for yet (sworn to secrecy!), check out the Christmas special airing 8pm Monday 6th December on FIVE.

Every time we do a demonstration of some proper hi-fi kit (separate amplifier, CD player and speakers), we invariably get asked to compare a few cable brands or the customer ends up bringing their own cables.

We've carefully picked a range of cables at each price bracket and in the £100-200 range, we're always a little hesitant to try Blue Heaven. Not because it's bad cable, but because it's such a special alternative and we never know what sort of reaction to expect. This isn't