The simple fact you are staring at the monitor and reading this article means that either you are an audiophile or that you are strongly willing to become an audiophile (kudos then!). Or, perhaps, you just pretend to be an audiophile. In some sense, I’m an audiophile too. This all sounds like a meeting of […]
Month: July 2020
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Abrahamsson Audio – are they still in business? We don’t think so. Here’s what we’ve been able to find so far: “Norwegian manufacturer of high end amplifiers based in Oslo and run by Ola Abrahamsson who some of you might remember from Internet amplifier DIY discussions in the 90’s. Started manufacturing amplifiers using a slightly […]
This issue about copyrights and protection has so many layers My absolute first ever system was a philips mono record player with a ceramic cartridge and a speaker in the lid. It switched on by pulling the arm to the right. That would be about 1970. Then one christmas I got a proper Philips stereo […]
Hi Neil. I’ve heard the word; quite often in fact. I think I know what it means but I’m not entirely sure. This proved embarrassing when I was asked this recently by my wife. I found I couldn’t really explain it. I couldn’t properly articulate it. It started me thinking. If I can’t explain it […]
How does PS Audio deal with equipment sonic signatures? Do we purposefully use tubes and transistors to tailor the sound to some criteria?
Paul McGowan … One of the most exciting things a hifi buff can do is upgrade. The process of researching, noodling on choices, making the decision, pulling the trigger, receiving the new boxes, then upgrading the system is a real hoot. Few things I can think of get me more excited. My son Scott McGowan has […]
Opening bid £1.00 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-iPad-mini-1st-Gen-16GB-Space-Grey-Logitech-Keyboard-free-phones/164306431917
We hardly see stereo stores anymore and the stores that used to carry equipment seem to have vanished and not be replaced. What’s happening? Are smartphones and MP3 players taking over and decimating the good sound possible through high-end audio?
I was watching some modern concert footage of Peter Gabriel with a full orchestra last night on Sky Arts. Everywhere around the edges of the stage were rats nests of cabling and boxes linked to other boxes and more cables and more boxes in flight cases etc. Despite this, the sound was brilliant. I […]
Originally posted March 2015 By Mike Mettler: “96/24 — that’s my bottom line these days, absolutely.” Steven Wilson is standing firm. The once and future guru of high-resolution recording and surround-sound mixing (he’s been behind the board to forge 5.1 wonders for everyone from Yes to Tears for Fears) feels everyone should be recording (and […]
Originally published June 2013 The celebrity interview is a fraught affair. After actor Rhys Ifans stalks out of his unhappy encounter with a Times journalist, we ask those who interview the stars about their worst experiences Continues HERE
The Lecson guys. They are band of enthusiasts dedicated to the preservation of the 1970’s British hi-fi icon, Lecson. Please JOIN THEM .
NB: A thread – from a while back – that some members here might find contains interesting observations, advice and, perhaps, more. In my view, certainly worth dipping in and out of if even if you have only a few minutes to spare. In a discussion with Mike (Shian7) recently on the SL-1210 thread he […]
“The stereo receiver was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that; dead as a doornail. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing can come of the story I am about to relate.” So might begin a chapter in a modern history of hi-fi. The stereo receiver is a dinosaur, with its […]
An extract from the thread: “The irony is that the GPAM is probably a very fine turntable marred by over ambiguous marketing techno-babble ?” Continue reading HERE
OK, the measurements only took about 15 minutes, I suspect writing this post may take longer. I placed an accelerometer on the amps top (Onkyo NR5010 in the theatre room speakers are Usher BE718 with paradigm sub12). The amp is sitting on 20mm mdf shelf with a reinforcing bit of ali angle cos the amp […]
Turntable aficionados might enjoy reading how, via this downloadable .PDF, it used to be done. PC based spectrum analyzers have dramatically dropped the price to make these measurements. MORE
I’m on the look out for a pre-amp that will drive some Albarry monoblocks with authority. These have a very low input impedance of 5Kohms. This seems to be quite a tall order for many pre-amps and I’d very much appreciate some advice. I’ve realised that I will need a pre-amp with a low output […]
I still love the turntable amps and speakers I got from you (Funk Firm, LFD, Harbeth), I hoped that would be the case but recently my thoughts have turned to computer audio. As indeed it sometimes does I remember you recommended the Benchmark DAC to run in conjunction with our Mac. I realise now I […]
I was minded to write this, as a result of the appalling “Thread Crapping” and piss taking on the wanted advert that Anthony K posted in Private Exhibitions. In the late 1970s an engineer working for a Matsushita electronics company in Japan was changing the transformer on a prototype amplifier, by chance he placed […]
The memoir of Deborah Curtis offers a deeply personal counterpoint to the public image of Ian Curtis, says Oliver Arnoldi Dip in and out HERE
Paul McGowan … The problem with facts is choosing which to follow. For example, it is a fact that regardless of which cable we use to connect the output of an amplifier to our Audio Precision test equipment the results will be the same. Of course, that doesn’t mean the cables are the same. As […]
