Our Blog – Technical Articles
The latest updates and product reviews from the team @ Rapallo. Includes insights and technical tips to help your Audio or Visual project.
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Meet the Luxman’s
Just recently we signed a new partnership with Luxman NZ, this is a brand with huge heritage, there is not…
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The Chicken or the Egg?
What’s more important: your source or your speakers? This week we wanted to start with the our most common HiFi…
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A Guide To Buying The Right DAC For You
How to choose a digital-to-analog converter for home or portable audio use? It has never been easier to discover new…
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Getting Sound Throughout The House
Imagine seamless sound flowing evenly through every room in your home — such is the experience of multi-room wireless speaker…
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Meet the Staff | Bensan
A huge part of Rapallo is our staff, as we are only a small team. All our team are crucial…
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The Benefits of Adding Subwoofers to your Stereo System?
The LFE effect is present on many Hollywood blockbusters and the general expectation of impressive bass in such movies. When it comes to movie watching, we want to both hear and feel the action. But, what about adding subwoofers to your music at home, have you considered that?
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Packing A Punch For Home Theatre
Pre- packaged Home Theatre packages are a great option for homes where you want a non-permanent installation or something that can be moved about the house from time to time.
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What Are Folded Tweeters?
Folded Motion Tweeters are a variation of speakers that is used to produce very high frequency sounds, as in the…
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Top 8 HiFi System Tweaks To Get Your System Sounding Its Best!
Not paying attention to these basic HiFi system tweaks, you’ll never get the best performance out of the components you already own.
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Meet Magnat. Sound Champions.
Recently we took on a new brand, not a new audio company as you will read below, but a new…
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Meet the Rapallo Staff | Deano Lambert
Meet the Rapallo Staff. A huge part of Rapallo is our staff, as we are only a small team. All…
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Musaic & Wireless Sound
What I was looking for was to be able to easily add two additional zones to our networked system, one for a bathroom, and another for a large office area where I was about to be working from during lockdown.
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The mysteries of a CD Transport explained
I am constantly asked whether a CD transport [an audio CD Player with a digital output] is better than an…
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This Changes Everything…
The Hugo M Scaler takes the digital file and repairs it, adding back the information lost between the samples, then it sends the repaired file to the DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter).
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Sound & Vision in Your Tiny Home or Apartment
Let’s face it, times are changing. As cities grow and populations increase the ideal home will no longer be the…
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Power Conditioning – Getting the Best Sound from Your Hi-Fi & Home Theatre
How many times have you sat back in your favorite listening chair around midnight or the early hours and noted…
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4K or UHD – what do I choose?
We get often asked when talking about home theatre or media rooms, do I need a 4k projector? Well that…
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Meet Jeff Rowland…
Every now and again we get a little bit excited… And just after Xmas is was just like that here…
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What are Electrostatic Speakers?
There are many different speaker technologies out there in the market, each with their advantages and disadvantages depending on the way you look at them. So, this week we delve into what is an Electrostatic speaker.