James Stafford writes: From their 1982 debut EP, Chronic Town, through 2011’s career-capping Collapse Into Now, R.E.M. released numerous songs that wove their ways into our personal soundtracks: “Losing My Religion,” “Man on the Moon,” “Superman,” “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” and on and on. But […]
Month: August 2017
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Doug Schneider writes ….. According to Statista.com, 122.32 million smartphones were sold in 2007, the year the first iPhone was released. In 2016, almost 1.5 billion smartphones were sold, and there’s no reason to believe this growth will stop anytime soon. According to a January 12, 2017 article by the Pew Research Center, 77% of […]
Paul McGowan writes: Yesterday I asked how it could be that a switching power supply can regulate its output without yet another power amplifier being inserted into the supply? We know that to regulate a traditional power supply of a power amplifier (something we’d love to do for best sound) we need to add a […]
More HERE EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions expressed in the above post do not necessarily reflect those of our editorial team – just in case you wondered. Neil McCauley
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Originally published 2013 Reflektor, the band’s new James Murphy-produced double album, combines dance music with Haitian roots, lyrics that speak of disillusionment – and a guest appearance from David Bowie Continue More music like this HERE
“As a deaf person, there’s a few standard things you expect to happen during an audiology appointment. These include: having your hearing checked and your ears piped with warm plasticine to make new ear moulds for your hearing aids (I’ve always secretly loved this bit), and being gently chided for not cleaning your ear moulds […]
Curtain-raiser: The first night of the Proms, at the Royal Albert Hall By Ivan Hewett 17 Jul 2015 How to begin the world’s greatest music festival? With a brand-new curtain-raiser, is one obvious answer. We have one this year, in the shape of Gary Carpenter’s Dadaville, and there have been quite a few new […]
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions expressed in the above post do not necessarily reflect those of our editorial team – just in case you wondered. Neil McCauley
Paul McGowan writes: In yesterday’s post we covered how the mysterious crystals used to make radio receivers first were spun off to the vacuum tube and later rediscovered to become transistors. Today let’s cover some of the fundamental differences between tubes and transistors. Let’s start with what the two have in common: they both are […]
Originally published 2015 The Dave Clark Five were as big as the Beatles. So why did the sixties idol give it all up? Neil McCormick has a rare audience with a forgotten star Continues HERE More music like this HERE
We are told ….. All products benefit from a burning in/running in period of time. Phono stages used with analogue replay are no exception. Blue Horizon has launched an integrated RIAA Filter with IsoTek High Resolution Full System Enhancer CD. The compact RIAA Filter allows you to directly connect your CD player to your phono […]
We are told ….. Japanese cable and accessories experts Fututech continue their assault on the various unwanted ‘intruders’ that can get in the way of peak hi-fi performance. The new destat III effortlessly eliminates dust and static from analogue and digital media, from audio and video components, and, well, pretty much anything…. —//— The destat […]
We are told ….. Keith Monks Audio unveils the new discOvery Redux and the discOvery microLight Record Cleaning Machines. The new revised microLight is the smallest ever Keith Monks RCM and is the smallest precision record cleaning machine ever. The new microlight Redux is a modern version of the traditional ‘Keith Monks’ which is smaller, […]
AudiophileReview.com / Mark Smotroff writes …. I’ll admit up front that there are some of you out there who really know Jaco Pastorius’ own music and playing inside and out. Dare I say, there are probably more of us who know Jaco’s sound from his amazing, fruitful and important collaborations with other artists and bands. […]
Originally published in 2015 Sophie Christie (The Telegraph) writes: With more than 18 million users, eBay is the country’s largest online marketplace. Buyers get to browse a vast range of goods and snap up bargains. Sellers use the site to do anything from disposing of unwanted goods for a few pounds, to showcasing all the […]
TONEAudio write: It’s a pretty big deal when Boulder Amplifiers announces a new series of amplification components, in this case the 1100 series. Starting with the 1160 power amplifier you see here, weighing in at 140 pounds and producing 300 watts per channel, (doubling into 4 and 2 ohms) you can see that this is […]
The Flame Still Burns Imagine a speaker with no moving parts. No mass, no cones, no ribbons, no diaphragms, no enclosure, no Doppler shift, no resonances- just the ability to modulate the air directly. Now imagine a perfect audio point source (the ideal pulsating sphere) radiating uniformly with constant phase. This has been the dream of physicists for […]
This looks rather interesting. Here’s an extract from the accompanying test: “Here is my version of a mechanical sound recorder based on a turntable. It’s possible to record up to 4 minutes on a blank CD. The quality of my camera’s mic captured sound is lower than that of the real playback, videos with original […]
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions expressed in the above post do not necessarily reflect those of our editorial team – just in case you wondered. Neil McCauley
Originally published 2009 America already had High Fidelity and Audio when the first British hi-fi magazine emerged. Before that, to find coverage of audio developments you’d have had to search through the pages of Wireless World, the major technical journal that covered the entire field of electronics. But in June 1956, just a couple of […]
Roger Russell writes: Oxygen-free copper (OFC) or Oxygen-free high thermal conductivity (OFHC) copper generally refer to a group of wrought high conductivity copper alloys that have been electrolytically refined to reduce the level of oxygen to .001% or below. Perhaps, it should be more accurately called oxygen reduced copper. C11000 is the most common copper. […]
Speaker Shack writes ….. Diminutive DAC delivers versatile sound-boosting digital audio ‘hub’ for all manner of devices – from smartphones and computers to TVs and games consoles. Product summary The nano iOne from iFi is designed to be a convenient, high-quality digital audio ‘hub’ – a DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter) that is miniature in size yet big on […]
They tell us: Like all McIntosh products, the MP100 is packed with features designed specifically for the vinyl lover including: Moving Coil and Moving Magnet inputs; Moving Coil and Moving Magnet adjustable loading (6 settings each); balanced and unbalanced analog outputs; optical, coax and USB digital outputs; and a Mono switch for when playing mono […]