Originally published July 2015 The Guardian write: “As we near the end of Led Zeppelin’s exhaustive reissue programme, the band’s leader and curator discusses their legacy and their difficult final years” Continues HERE
Month: August 2020
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Hi. I need a budget (below £200) cd player to go with a denon pma700ae amp in a work space. Anyone have any ideas? I’ve looked at denon dcd500ae and Nad c525BEE but without access to a soundroom i can only go on advice from others. it is for classical and contemporary indie/rock. With a […]
The thread starts: Is it just me or are there others who find the typical interviews with audio designers in the paper mags to promise more than they deliver? I’m not out to try and learn the intimate details of the people who design truly state-of-the-art gear, but I guess I’d like to know more […]
Originally published July 2015 As The Who close Glastonbury tonight, Pete Townshend talks to Neil McCormick about pop gatherings, playing loud and his classical version of rock opera Continues HERE
Many of you are familiar with the Audiophile’s dilemma: well recorded music sounds better on a high-end system and poorly recorded music sounds worse. It’s the problem of extremes: a high-end system extends the extremes – better sounds better, worse sounds worse. The problem with this lack of homogenizing is we tend to restrict […]
You know the ones, very small boxes with RCA input and digital coax and/or optical output? Anyone tried one? For twenty quid it’s tempting as a stop-gap whilst I wait for a better solution to playing vinyl through my MDAC… but if they’re likely to sound awful I might pass… then again, maybe they’ll sound […]
Ben Watt talks to Nick Duerden about three decades in music and returning to his roots. “You plod on, basically. You plod on.” Ben Watt says this matter-of-factly, in his slight, slightly impatient voice, and accompanies it with a shrug and a sort of half-smile. We’ve been discussing his longevity in the music industry, and […]
They say: The Cubo family, the new cubical omni-directional speaker collection, goes back to Architettura Sonora’s roots, the Cube, an iconic image of High-End speakers, reworking and redesigning the shape into a new context, using new materials and refined details, the concrete. The result is a timeless and advanced OUTDOOR/INDOOR speaker, combining designs and meticulous […]
The Beach Boys tell Neil McCormick how they have kept their sound strong after 50 years . MORE
Originally published March 2014 Jeff Lynne talks to Neil McCormick about ELO, The Beatles and his new album Continues HERE
Paul McGowan writes: Number 4 on our list of 9 areas to pay attention to is making sure there’s no DC on the output of the DAC. This might seem meaningless and something everyone just sort of does as a matter of course but how you do this can have a sonic impact and it’s […]
Steve Guttenberg writes: The Magnepan MMG and Pioneer Elite SP-EBS73-LR are two very different sounding speakers, so which one is best for you? More HERE
Paul McGowan writes: The high-end doesn’t really have a brand or a neat way to bundle up its concept and present the package to someone interested. That’s a problem. For the process of engaging a new community of high-end customers, high-end as a concept must be packaged and easily grasped by a potential customer. […]
How can you get more information by simply upsampling? Paul explains how digital audio works, what sample rate and bit depth means, and how computers count in binary in this simple short video. Watch Now
John Atkinson writes: I write this in a Seattle coffee bar—my flight home to New York has been canceled due to a snowstorm. As I try to put down these thoughts, I’m listening to the high-resolution masters of the April issue’s “Recording of the Month,” Sasha Matson’s jazz opera Cooperstown, on my Pono player using […]
Paul Rigby writes: A new pair of stand-mounted speakers from the German outfit, QEOS features glass to, says the company, prevent “…vibrations and cavity resonances…” While we’re on the theme, the company also states that vibrations are minimalist below the speaker due to the opposing force-coupled bass/midrange drivers decoupled from the enclosure. To read more, […]
Paul McGowan writes: I would imagine the canon shots on Tchaikovsky’s 1812 might sound more like the banging of pots on a B&W Zepplin, or a pair of bookshelf speakers. Big music should be honored by full range gear. Conversely, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, or Red Norvo sound right at home on small kit. If […]
It was interesting to note that a lot of the exhibitors and participants there were clueless about a great many things. This article is about one of those things: Jitter. After talking with many people there I have come to the conclusion that the overwhelming majority of audiophiles have no idea what they are talking […]