What’s the cheapest proper Hi-Fi system you can put together, preferably using used equipment. Where would you start? What would you buy? I’d be looking at a Dual CS505 with a cheap Goldring cartridge, a NAD 524 CD player, Denon PMA-250SE amp and a pair of Celestion Ditton 15 (first series) or Mission 780SE (first […]
Month: August 2020
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There has been a few threads recently on pre amps and what they do and what they bring to the party. With so many members and so many systems here i wondered what the very best sounding Valve pre amp you have heard? i do realise that other components in the chain make a […]
By A/B conventionally applied I mean the same musical phrase, bar or track used to demonstrate the differences between (say) any two pairs of speakers (or DACs or whatever) where the total number of similar components on demonstration is 2 + n, where n = any number and where the process is carried out too […]
“I have been told by a couple of Audiophiles that the FM Acoustics amplifiers were incredibly good and very expensive. Has anyone had hand-on experiences with these amplifiers? The amp I have heard of most is the Resolution 811. Would this venerable amp still approach the state of the art for solid state?” Read […]
Tim Lewis: Are casual sex, gay love and smoking pot suitable subjects for country music? Kacey Musgraves thinks so – and she’s set to bring the genre to a whole new audience. Kacey Musgraves stands onstage at the Arts Club in central London and absent-mindedly worries the tuning pegs of her guitar. “Hope y’all don’t […]
Paul McGowan writes: I had mentioned on our forums that there were several companies I did not believe aspired to produce high end audio products: McIntosh and B&O among them. Ok, ok, I can see the fur flying already. Take a deep breath. This is not a put down. For the record, I admire both of […]
As part of my promised occasional setup tips, I thought it might be good to go to step two in system setup, where we focus on the phantom center image. Remembering that the goal for proper stereo imaging is two fold: the loudspeakers should disappear and the phantom stage is always behind the loudspeakers, we should then get started […]
In a recent set of comments we spoke about adult children and when it is that they start to get the high-end “itch”. In my experience, it starts in their 30′s and extends into the 40′s. The desire to have something better, a step above the status quo, begins at these ages and it occurs […]
One of our readers made an interesting observation. He writes: “selecting a record, cleaning that record, clamping the record, starting the motor, cleaning the stylus, cueing up the cartridge and sitting down to listen prepared me to listen in a way that a few mouse clicks or screen taps doesn’t. I’d made a commitment to […]
In his book, Pete Townshend charts his chaotic childhood, guitar-smashing heyday – and his 2003 arrest on child-pornography charges. He talks to Alexis Petridis MORE
After surviving the sex, drugs and gunplay years, the guitar legend tells Kunal Dutta why he’s glad to be rocking up in Britain again MORE
Paul McGowan writes ….. When it comes to the space we allocate for our listening area, we rarely have the luxury of choosing our room size, dimensions, ceiling height, or the floor type. For most of us, we take what we can get and hope for the best. Sometimes, for the luckiest among us, we […]
Originally published November 2014 Alex Patridis writes: As the Smithsonian Institution’s undersecretary for history, art and culture points out, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC seldom plays host to rock music. Nor, one suspects, does it regularly get guest speakers who swear to quite the degree that the gentleman seated beside him […]
The Velvets, Warhol, heroin, music that ranges from the divine to the disturbing: Lou Reed’s life and work is legendary. But he doesn’t want to talk about it – in fact, he doesn’t want to talk at all MORE
“Dear friends: who really needs an MM type phono cartridge?, well I will try to share/explain with you what are my experiences about and I hope too that many of you could enrich the topic/subject with your own experiences. For some years ( in this forum ) and time to time I posted that the […]