Month: May 2019

  They say: Blue Horizon’s new Sanctum isolation platform is specifically designed to isolate individual high-performance components such as turntables, DACs, preamplifiers, power amplifiers, CD players and streamers from all sources of unwanted vibration. The platform’s construction brings together a selection of materials from opposite ends of the elasticity spectrum, combining them to reduce resonance. […]

I like the ‘Ask’ section very much where I can pick up valuable information about everything hi-fi. That’s why I write to you hoping that you can help me to find the right cartridge for my turntable. I have recently bought a Logic DM101 record player with an Audio-Technica AT1100 S-shaped tonearm. I have found […]

I am a long standing regular reader and would very much appreciate some help in fine tuning my system. I am not sure whether this level of system detail is a help or a hindrance for you, but here goes. My front ends are: Vinyl – Acoustic Signature Challenger, OL Silver and Shelter 5000 cartridge […]

Hi, and thanks for stopping here. Re the post below, we’d really, really like to know what you think. Have you got time to leave a comment? Thank you. Howard Popeck / HFA features editor +++++++++ Many of us have seen the worst purchase or most disappointing purchase threads, so here’s the opposite. Among the […]

Hi, and thanks for stopping here. Re the post below, we’d really, really like to know what you think. Have you got time to leave a comment? Thank you. Neil McCauley / HFA editor in chief +++++++++ 2 years back we spotted this: ‘Twisted light’ carries 2.5 terabits of data per second. Was it a […]

Am I the only person slightly under whelmed by some of the new vinyl reissues? These new expensive 180-gram offerings should be far better than the old 1970/80s records they are replacing. Often they are not. Yes, they are made of thick (and usually flat) plastic and they have great covers usually protected by up […]

  They say ….. ELAC, a leader in premium loudspeakers and consumer electronics proudly unveils the Uni-Fi series of loudspeakers designed by Vice President of Engineering Andrew Jones.“My goal with the Uni-Fi series was to create a line of speakers with technology and performance normally reserved for speakers costing significantly more,” Jones said. “By going […]

Neil. Hi. Has anyone successfully used ceramics for a speaker cabinets? Yes indeed. Zako Audio spring to mind. Here’s the back story as best we can ascertain. “Company that started trading in 1999 as “Zako Speakers Inc” but was incorporated in 2000 as Zako Audio and was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Owned […]

Hi guys. What can you tell me about White Audio Labs and can they be contacted perhaps under another name? Our archives drew a blank on this one and so we asked around. Here’s all that we found. “Tiny British operation run by David White that was on the vanguard of a wave of small […]

They say ….. The Platinum II range has produced the most musical, accurate and beautiful loudspeakers Monitor Audio has ever made. Inspired by rigorous new analysis and breakthrough innovation by the engineering team, Platinum II is a potent mix of evolutionary refinement and discovery, offering genuine audiophile performance with a stunning design and materials specification. […]

Gentlemen – I read this term frequently in the paper magazines and on this site too. Usually it is expressed by listeners, and not very well either and from ‘professional writers’ in a somewhat unconvincing way. I rarely here the term defined or at least clarified by a maker. Why is this? Thank you for […]

  Each AK380 casing is milled from a solid, 1.7Kg block of copperwhich is then hand finished and coated in a four-stage process that prevents oxidization and produces a brushed-metal finish. The player is completed by a carbon-fibre backing, and comes with a V1 leather case. Only 500 units of the AK380 Copper will be […]

Hi, and thanks for stopping here. Re the post below, we’d really, really like to know what you think. Have you got time to leave a comment? Thank you. Neil McCauley / HFA editor in chief +++++++++ Does anybody have any experience working with this room acoustic unit from Accuphase. Can you share it?

http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/new-orders-blue-monday-played-with-obsolete-1930s-instruments.html

https://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?64257-KEF-R500-floorstanding-speakers-pair

Aron Garrecht has posted a review of the Simaudio Moon Evolution 780D DAC ($15,000) at SoundStage! Hi-Fi. His conclusions: “To say that I like Simaudio’s Moon Evolution 780D would be a gross understatement. I’m enchanted by it. It’s the best-sounding DAC I’ve heard in my system, and quite possibly the best-sounding DAC I have heard, […]