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Month: December 2021
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Being in the business myself, my answer is from the other side of the fence from the consumer. There’s a long tradition in Britain of people making hi-fi because they love it, not because there’s a lot of money to be made. Many of the people making hi-fi here spend a very long time getting […]
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Q: Hi Neil and crew. What happened to Oxford Acoustics? Great looking gear that apparently sounded really good. A: This is all we have been able to find. Not much, butter better than nothing. Anyway …. A small turntable manufacturer based in Oxfordshire, UK and originally founded by Fraser Shaw and Jon Harker in the […]
Hi Howard. I know your opinion that when it comes to forums your advice and personal practice is to ‘look and never, ever touch’. I understand where you are coming from. Your comments re the obvious and less obvious ‘bigging up’ of chosen brands by the genuine and those in the ‘pay’ of those makers […]
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The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. The albums this giant of music recorded for Atlantic between 1956 and 1961 are rightly considered his best. This lavish collection of the jazz legend’s entire mid-’50s to early ’60s […]
We are told ….. Ferguson’s Big Band was playing a residency at New York’s Jimmy’s Club where this album was recorded live one lunchtime CBS were keen to catch the vibrancy of the band hence the rush to record it The material is a mixture with Jimmy Webb’s ‘MacArthur Park’ being one of the standouts […]
Geoffrey Norris: Bosnian-born pianist Ivana Gavrić brings a wide perspective to Grieg’s Norwegian peasant dances and ‘Lyric Pieces’, playing with vitality and haunting atmosphere. If Grieg is particularly well known for his Piano Concerto and for the luminous miniatures he etched as “Lyric Pieces”, the Bosnian-born pianist Ivana Gavrić here offers a much wider perspective […]
As lead guitarist for late 60s US psychedelic visionaries Spirit, Randy California needs no introduction to serious rock fans. This tremendous live set was recorded for the L.A. radio station KPFK in September 1972 – the same month his wild solo debut appeared – and also features Larry ‘Fuzzy’ Knight on bass and Spirit’s legendary […]
On the only forum I subscribe to, I was asked a question about my dream system. Here’s my reply. You’ll notice that some of the items are many years old. The plain fact is that in some instances, nothing, literally nothing made today can achieve the spectacularly wonderful sound from this bygone era. That type […]
As you are likely more than aware I have had my Epos ES-14’s for some time and although I have heard a number of speakers, nothing has jumped out as significantly better than the Epos without spending stupid money. Has anyone had the chance to hear the new Sonus Faber Venere 2.5, I have read […]
I have a Stax 20/20 basic system which I have acquired from a friend recently. My problem is when directly connected from my Naim CD5X CD player (RCA output) I get some distortion in sound as I crank up the volume to higher level on the energiser. My interconnects are QED approx £20 according to […]
Stuff that works, stuff that holds up/ The kind of stuff you don’t hang on the wall/ Stuff that’s real, stuff you feel/ The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall. Guy Clark’s paean to dependability, “Stuff That Works,” almost always makes me take a mental inventory of my own most favoritest things: […]
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