I have come across a number of, what i would term grey import pre amps , apart from the lack of any warranty which applies to any, or should i say most used kit. How difficult is it to get kit repaired without going through the importer and paying the premium for owning gray import […]
Month: April 2020
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Circuit Scribe is a rollerball pen that uses a silver conductive ink to let you create fully functioning circuits as fast as you can draw, making it cheaper, faster and easier to test out electronics and prototype concepts. Developed by Electroninks Incorporated, a company originally part of a University of Illinois research lap, Circuit Scribe […]
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Not sure If this will take off but I will start. I’m not always sure with hifi whether £££’s gets you a better sound, better quality product -yes… In most cases My best ever budget buy was a pair of Tannoy mercury v4’s (not V4i’s). These were unbelievably good speakers, absolute party animals too. I […]
Hello there, am in the running for a new preamp, cost is no object. Would appreciate to hear comments from you out there. Thinking about Lyra Connoisseur 4.2 SE among others. Poweramp is Tenor 150, speakers are Eidolon diamonds. Thanks for your help and experience. 141 suggestions HERE
The basic principles of control room design -By Dave Moulton Most of the articles we read on acoustic design of control rooms and studios seem to center around materials we might use to treat wall surfaces, including some tips about using those materials for fun and profit. In this article, I’d like to take […]
The thread starts as follows: This could lead to a hysterical thread. How many audiophiles have come home with an expensive amp/preamp/and told their wife they bought it for practically nothing? Only to have paid 3-4K they had in their private stash? How many audiophiles have secretly installed a new “toy” in their audio system […]
All well and good should the enquirer be serious about becoming a customer….. I have many enquiries a week which are requests for further information as to how product XYZ compares to something in my range. If you could suggest a foolproof way of conveying how something sounds in a particular environment then I’m all […]
Paul McGowan: I was surprised at the search results I got when I Googled Digiphobic. One of the first things that comes up is a website called Digiphobia with but one page that reads -noun a persistent irrational fear of all things digital. I figured I thought the term up to explain a loathing of […]
About time. An intelligent, passionate, all-out attack on the whole ‘blind test’ ideology. Contained in Dudley’s column in the ‘Stereophile.’ (Nov 2014). Lot’s of real examples of the ‘results’ such tests achieve (including the infamous Pepsi ” Blind taste” test.) A flavour of Dudley’s broadside can be gathered from the following: ”time and time again, […]
Paul McGowan: If you Google “NAS” you’ll see that the first block of entries is for the rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known as NAS. And if you look down the list Google offers you’ll find what we’re interested in. Hint: it stores music we listen to on our high-end audio systems. A […]
Paul McGowan writes: I’ve heard it said more than once. “Vinyl has soul. Digital does not.” I can relate to what’s being expressed in that statement and I don’t disagree. If we think of soul not as an immortal entity but rather as the essence or embodiment of a certain quality—as in the soul of […]
Basics of nodes and standing waves… By Bob Ross Getting your music room to sound good can be a confounding and frustrating experience if you don’t take some basic physics into consideration. There are some fundamental principles of acoustics that apply to all small rooms with parallel walls. Once you are aware of the behavior […]
University of California, Berkeley, physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones, enabling people to mimic bats or dolphins’ ability to use sound to communicate and gauge the distance and speed of objects around them. More practically, the wireless ultrasound devices complement standard radio transmission using electromagnetic waves in areas where radio […]
A high-end retailer writes: Hello again. Part of my work involves home setup. Consequently I pass on hard-won setup tips. I’m going to pass on my experiences re the illusory center image. What’s the objective? Well … for proper stereo imaging the loudspeakers should ‘disappear’ and the illusory stage is always behind the loudspeakers. I […]
Paul McGowan ……….. Having a big system like we do in Music Room One sometimes is a lot of responsibility and pressure to both maintain it and worry about how it is sounding. As a reference system, it really needs to be constantly kept up and over time I hear more and more of its […]
How to make acoustical measurements without a Ph.D.- By Dave Moulton As Lord Kelvin said, “To measure is to know for sure…maybe. The acoustical behavior of the rooms we produce music in is often baffling. To make it worse, acoustical treatments are regularly shrouded in hypespeak (as in “Our Soundsucker® Wall Panels will remove all […]
The thread starts: I don’t generally write reviews on my kit; A, because I’m not very good at it and B, because most of my kit is at the decidedly lo -fi end of the hi – fi spectrum, so not of great interest to others. This phono, however, has surprised me so much that […]
Paul McGowan writes: There are many great mysteries in the world: how the pyramids were built, the Easter Island Moai, why whatever hair I lose on my head seems to pop up somewhere else, and I am sure there are plenty more. There are two great mysteries in audio that are currently bugging me and, […]
Ian M writes as follows: I have been trawling my way through the MDAC threads because I have it in my mind that I might get a SBT and an MDAC. I am coming to the conclusion that it might be more trouble than its worth. It seems to be a young persons game, my […]
In an interesting interview at CEPro, Alan Parsons, the man who engineered Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and yes, had his own Project, says that room acoustics are far more important than audiophile gear. In fact, the interview led one Slashdot commenter to post this fine quip: “Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to […]
“I listen to some old historical classical recordings now and then and I recently picked up an old London LP in excellent condition from the early to mid 50’s of Ernest Ansermet conducting Stravinsky. I usually only buy the newer reissue LPs or CDs of these historical recordings because they don’t distort nearly as bad […]
Reader Mark Laufer sent me an interesting letter that I want to share with you. He brings up some excellent points: ones we will be exploring in future posts. “I always am amazed when reviewers talk about two things: one is “true to the recording” and the other is “true to the live performance.” They […]