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17 OCTOBER: ADELAIDE A glimmer of good news after today’s depressing note from corporate undertakers Ferrier Hodgson that they will shut all the Allens Billy Hyde stores (except for the franchise stores). Plus throw 500+ staff into the dole queue, albeit quickly so they ‘can access the Government Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme (GEERS)’. In Adelaide…

MON 15 OCT 2012 Ferrier Hodgson released a statement (below) which means Guitar Centre are out and Con Gallin is back in. Mr Gallin is the Managing Director of Australian Musical Imports (AMI) and Gallin’s Musician’s Pro Shop retail stores. This story has moved fast: on Wednesday last week (10 Oct) Con Gallin told CX…

Something is not right with the Allans Billy Hyde (Australian Music Group) liquidation, according to the next largest retailer Con Gallin. Mr Gallin is the Managing Director of Australian Musical Imports (AMI) and Gallin’s Musician’s Pro Shop retail stores. He made his fondest dollar importing Gibson guitars. Mr Gallin asserts that he has twice placed…

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MONDAY OCT 1, 2013 Last week a group of Vice Chancellors debated the threat from Masssive Open Online Courses offered by edX, Coursera, Udacity and our favorite, the Khan Academy. The Vice Chancellors say their profession may be at the tipping point, and noted how the internet has upended Newspapers, Music, Book stores, travel agents…

Friday 28 September 2012. (Picture above from Allans Billy Hyde website) Woolworths has just sold the 325 store Dick Smith chain for just $20 million. The Dick Smith chain was ‘divested’ because it was a management distraction. After closing unprofitable stores, Woolworths wrote down the value of the chain to just $20 million, despite the…

Chris Puplick lashed NIDA in an essay where he accused the head as being ‘Thatcherite’. This was to compare Lynn Willians with Tory leader Margaret Thatcher who was once described as adopting male aggression to rule the UK. The NIDA debate caused media to cost the outcomes, with 40 student graduates against the $12 million…

We’re joined at the expanding CX by Andy Stewart, former editor of Audio Technology Magazine. Also new this month is Clinton Hughey-Trueman who writes on lighting matters. Sad news this month as Australian Musican mag was binned after 18 years. CX will be the last magazine standing after the media Armageddon is all over! Speaking…

Should product reviews make manufacturers happy? Here’s one that didn’t. For over 22 years CX has held editorial independence as a hard won principle, so we were not about to ship our X32 review to Behringer for ‘approval’ before we published. Now we wonder whether we (Julius and Jimmy Den Ouden) went too hard. Which…

My newsagent is Carey from Wahroonga Village. He rolls up at 3am to meet the trucks from News Limited (Telegraph, Australian) and Fairfax (Herald and Australian Financial Review). The papers are rolled and delivered by 5.30am. Not today. For the second time in recent weeks, one of the trucks was horribly late. Last time it…

Monday 10 Sept 2012: SYDNEY Maybe it’s the weather – balmy and calm. The news is thin today. Peter (Rode) Freedman just launched his Jewellery design and manufacture company. “Jewellery is very much like mics. Mics are very much the Jewellery of the audio game after all. This is definitely a hobby though, nothing more.…