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It has been a great year for small, affordable audio – long may it continue!

2023 has been a fantastic year for products – be they headphones, streamers or DACs – that give plenty of clout for very little cost.

What Hi-Fi?

Best of 2023: from top-tier OLEDs to retro revivals, our team picks its favourite products

2023 has been a busy year, but these are the What Hi-Fi? review team's personal highlights.

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CD, streaming and vinyl: this versatile hi-fi system has it all

Whether you love streaming, CDs, vinyl or downloads (or want to listen in peace), this incredibly versatile system can play it all.

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Anthony Albanese denounced Scott Morrison’s secrecy – but now he’s perpetuating it

The government continues to refuse freedom-of-information access to minutes of a committee established by the Coalition. When will it live up to its rhetoric on transparency?

The Guardian - AU

Pick of the month: Sony’s flagship OLED gets full marks while Arcam delivers a triple threat

Our experts had a busy month in October, with everything from Sony’s flagship A95L OLED to Rega’s über-expensive turntable passing through our viewing and listening rooms

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PMC Prodigy 5

PMC says the Prodigy 5 floorstanders will bring studio-grade sound to the hi-fi mainstream – we put that claim to the test.

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PMC Prodigy 1

The Prodigy 1 open PMC speakers up to a wider audience, and that audience should pounce on them immediately.

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Wagner Group: what Yevgeny Prigozhin's death means for stability in Africa

The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin after his private jet crashed on August 23 has raised questions about the Wagner Group’s future. Many in the west suspect Kremlin involvement in his death and are asking what will become of the mercenary group without its charismatic leader.

The Conversation

What will replace Russia’s Wagner mercenary army?

Private force is already being torn apart by Russia’s military, intelligence services, and state-run corporations.

Al Jazeera

Who was Dmitry Utkin, a key Wagner mercenary who died alongside Prigozhin?

The secretive war-hardened career-officer-turned-mercenary is said to have given the Wagner group its name.

Al Jazeera

Escape from Tarkov has completely changed its most annoying quest

Escape from Tarkov's 'A Shooter Born In Heaven' quest has been given a significant overhaul.

TechRadar

Australian government spent $42,000 on Sydney-themed Quad merchandise for event that didn’t go ahead

Exclusive: Items included stationery, media banners and accreditation lanyards for summit that was cancelled with just one week’s notice

The Guardian - AU

Wagner gold smuggling critical to keeping Russia’s economy afloat, MPs say

Parliamentary report also criticises the ‘remarkably complacent’ attitude of the government to Wagner’s activities across the last decade

The Independent UK

Private Russian military companies are multiplying – and so are the Kremlin’s problems

The Kremlin said Friday that it is considering granting legal status to some of the more than two dozen private military companies active in Russia. Legally, these shadow paramilitary groups do not exist – which allows them to operate parallel to Russia's armed forces, at times doing high-risk "dirty" jobs…

France 24

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Public Media Company Names Tim Isgitt As New CEO

The new CEO has worked for more than 25 years as a public servant and public media advocate

The Conversation

Ukraine war: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the 'warrior constituency' that could threaten Putin from the right

As he claimed victory in the battle for Bakhmut, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner private military company (PMC), gave another of his firebrand interviews. He lambasted, in unequivocal terms, the Russian minister of defence and his chief of staff, Russia’s “deep state” – namely, the presidential administration and the…

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8 of the best stereo speakers at High End Munich 2023

The High End Munich show was awash with new stereo speakers - here are some of our highlights.

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PMC prodigy1 and 5 speakers aim to take studio-grade sound mainstream

PMC has poured over 30 years of hi-fi and studio speaker know-how into its new duo, aiming to make them more appealing to a mainstream audience.

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AVNetwork

The Dolby Atmos Training Space Turns to PMC Monitors

The London Soho Square is equipped with a 9.1.4 PMC monitoring system to help mixing in immersive sound Dolby Atmos.

The Guardian - UK

This obsession with a ‘new elite’ hides the real roots of power

The picture that Matthew Goodwin paints of modern Britain’s ‘ruling class’ shows a weak understanding of how and where influence works

Motor1

2023 Acura TLX Type S PMC Edition Looks Menacing With Matte Gray Paint

The shade is called Gotham Gray, and only 50 will be built.

Al Jazeera

‘Brutal, bloody battles’: Russia’s ‘insane’ fight for Soledar

Ukraine has been crying out for more heavy armour, longer range weapons and air defence systems to end the war.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 276 of the invasion

More than 6m Ukrainian households still without power; EU to boost efforts to restore electricity and heating; Hungarian president to meet Zelenskiy

ABC News

Former prime minister Scott Morrison's secret ministries were unnecessary, Virginia Bell's inquiry finds

The findings from the investigation into Scott Morrison's self-appointment to secret ministries have been released. Here are some of the key takeaways.

The Guardian - AU

Labor retains Coalition-appointed shipbuilding adviser on $9,000 for each day worked

Former US navy secretary Donald Winter will provide advice on unspecified ‘key matters’ being considered by government

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