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Month: July 2020
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I’ve always used my turntables without power conditioners. I have two 20 amp dedicated AC wall units I’m using. Any comments on this please. Continue HERE
I have been reflecting on my biggest surprises and value-for-money purchases in the last 5 years – the ones that were truly impressive for the money, here are mine, and would like to find out about other maniac’s choices! Stick to what you have actually purchased please! My top 5 (so far). 1. Yamaha AS2000 […]
Heroes – and Villains The majority of people I have met and encountered so far in this hi-fi industry (manufacturers, PR people, retailers & dealers, journalists, customers and readers) are really nice individuals. There is however a small minority of ‘villains’ who can spoil our enjoyment, and for obvious legal reasons I cannot mention their […]
“I have recently accuired a pair of Nola Viper 1A speakers, while their performence is outstanding generally, the only problem is highlighted sibilence on vocals which is very annoying!!! Is this down to the speakers? Would a change of interconnects help? Any ideas from you guys would be appreciated greatly…” MORE
“It wasn’t that long ago that valve amplifiers were the only way music could be properly played back.”– apparently! MORE
Dave Simpson writes ….. Roger McGuinn, singer-songwriter: ‘When some DJs decided it was about drugs, it got banned – and that was the end of us’ Continues HERE
They say ….. LX-2 and LX-3 are the first speakers to arrive from Mission’s all-new entry-level LX Series, delivering exceptional sound at affordable prices Mission, the legendary British loudspeaker brand, has always had a reputation for delivering compelling musicality at affordable prices. Launching this spring, the LX-2 standmount speaker and LX-3 floorstander are the […]
From our archives: In his new book, Pete Townshend charts his chaotic childhood, guitar-smashing heyday – and his 2003 arrest on child-pornography charges. He talks to Alexis Petridis MORE
“30 Years of Perfect Sound Forever Eagerly anticipated since the digital audio revolution in recording studios in the late 1970s, Sony announced the CDP-101, the world’s first Compact Disc player, on October 1st, 1982. The Compact Disc was developed in concert by Sony, who handled the DSP, and by Philips, who had experience with optical […]
“I have discovered that powering my audio physic virgo which are 4 ohm via the 8 ohm tap on the audio research vs110 gives the virgos a more upfront balance with more life to the sound which I like.. I believe that it is safe to use the vs110/virgos this way without damaging either amp […]
Who looked at S/N ratios and bought the biggest number because they thought it was better? Who thinks that a better dynamic range figure actually means anything? Has anyone ever considered the signal to noise ratio or dynamic range figure as including both the electrical noise floor AND the physical noise the actual component makes, […]
Q: I am moving to Ho Chi Minh City in a few months. I am wondering whether to ship my stereo equipment (a bit old but good quality) or buy some new stuff in Vietnam. A bit of googling didn’t reveal much about buying stuff there. Does anyone know how easy it is to buy […]
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You just got a pair of speakers you can barely move yourself (inverse proportionality with age probably too). The first house you bought cost less than your current stereo investment (ditto). You have boxes of cables with which you don’t know what to do MORE
In my opinion, the speaker is by far the most important part of the audio system. After all, it is the only part you hear. OK, the other stuff really matters a lot, but without a great speaker… No go. I am a bit ‘speaker-obsessed’ I guess, and now I am wondering: What are the […]
Power output of an Icon Audio MB150 valve amplifier reads 135W at a 1% distortion limit. WHAT IT TELLS US Power, measured in Watts, tells us how loud an amplifier can go. A 100 Watt amplifier goes louder than a 20 Watt amplifier for example. However, it does not go five times louder, much less […]
…But is Elvis Costello one? Not really, though he has become fatter over the years. It sounds like a trite criticism, but I think Costello’s increasing weight has affected his musical ability… When I was growing up in the 80s I knew and loved his songs, especially the melodically catchy, but politically tinged, ‘Oliver’s Army,’ […]
I have owned both expensive gear (and I do mean expensive) and ”budget” gear. Many components are mind-boggling on a price-paid versus performance ratio. Three of my favorites are: The Bedini clarifier. This gizmo just plain works. You may like – or not – the difference it makes on your cd’s. In my case, […]
WHAT IT TELLS US All frequencies within a music signal must be amplified equally, from lowest bass to the highest of treble, or tonal balance will be incorrect. The audio frequency range stretches from low frequencies at 20Hz (twenty cycles per second) up to 20kHz (twenty thousand cycles per second). All frequencies within this range […]
“My definition of an Audiophile is a person who seeks the recreation/reproduction of music in their home based on a live event. The purpose of this thread is to gain an understanding of why the majority of people on this forum only compare components to each other. I don’t understand the terms of one amplifier […]
In a post covering the invention of the vacuum tube and its principals of operation we learned that small crystals were used as the basis for radio receivers and that inventor Lee De Forest came up with an alternative to the crystals, the triode tube which others later turned into the triode vacuum tube. This […]
Amplifiers reached ‘perfection’ long ago, in the late 1970s when Hitachiintroduced their power MOSFET output transistors and put them into amplifiers like the HMA-7500. It measured perfectly – but the sound? Flat and boring. Amplifier sound quality and its links to measured performance tests have been controversial ever since. Few tests correlate strongly with sound […]
I found this interesting, from a “6Moons” review… credit given to one “KG”. It opens up a lot of discussion points. What does “resolution” mean to you? “Resolution. What do you mean by it? That depends. The dictionary goes from “motion, proposal” to “intent, resolve, determination” to “solution, working-out”. The audiophile obsession is of course […]