Month: January 2022
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We are told ….. Pearl Jam and Neil Young performing at their very best, broadcasting live and taken from the archives. This CD contains the hits Act Of Love, Mr Soul, Mother Earth and many more. 01- Big Green Country 02- Song X 03- Act Of Love 04- Downtown 05- Mr. Soul 06- Scenery 07- […]
When you set about writing a book covering the whole history of pop music, you’re bound to learn something. Here are three things… Continue
In a recent post I relayed the story of being banned from playing the kind of music I liked on the family stereo. Not to be deterred, I set out to build my own stereo system so I could close the door to my room and play whatever I wanted. I figured all I would […]
Who best to describe Paul Weller’s first album for the Parlophone label other than Paul himself: “I think it’s one of the best things I’ve done. I can’t compare it to any of my other albums. I think it’s different – not just for me, but different for what else is around. It’s defiantly 21st-Century […]
Paul McGowan writes: When we first started PS Audio back in the dark ages of the early 1970′s there was no such things as email, the World Wide Web or, for that matter, personal computers either. The IBM PC was launched a decade after PS Audio was founded and the computers of the day were […]
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/14/tv-tonight-the-man-who-pioneered-rocknroll-takes-centre-stage
“Guardian writers fish out their favourite lesser-known tracks of the year from an emotional ballad to mellow rap” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/26/the-best-songs-of-2021-that-you-havent-heard
Over the last decade and more, no Lieder recitals have given me more intense pleasure than those by the tenor Christoph Prégardien. Though he is now in his mid 60s, and his voice has inevitably lost some of its former bloom and flexibility with age, this Brahms disc, recorded in 2020, confirms that the sheer […]
“A shivering seabed of sound, haunted by barely there vocals and stitched together with lo-fi production – McElroy has made a beautiful early year listen” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/14/ben-mcelroy-how-i-learnt-to-disengage-from-the-pack-review
Jeff Day writes: Do you know what the oldest loudspeaker company in the world is? If you guessed Tannoy you’re exactly right, as Tannoy was founded by Guy R. Fountain in 1926 and has been making loudspeakers now for over 84 years. ‘Tannoy’ was trademarked as a name in 1928, and was located in […]
“Now an internationally venerated and still sometimes audience-baffling 72 year old, Bob Dylan started to be increasingly broadly recognised as a significant songwriter and maverick entertainer between 1963 and 1965, depending on your local media coverage. For a couple of years before that he had been the new kid on the block within NYC’s Greenwich […]
I’m desperate to find a full-range driver, horn loaded designed, wood cabinet speaker in the next week or two. I’m depressed since having to sell my beloved Horning Agathon Ultimates and not being able to enjoy my music. I need speakers. Something to get me by for now but still satisfy my spoiled ears. I […]
FYI: A thread – from a while back – that some might find contains interesting observations, advice and so on. Certainly worth dipping in and out of if you have only a few minutes to spare. Neil / editor in chief =========== I’ve been frequenting various hi fi shops recently, looking for ways to improve […]
The audiophile hobby is loaded with myths, like the one about crazy expensive audio isn’t worth it. That’s true some of the time, but trust me on this, a well set up MBL101 X-Treme system that costs $250,000 will stomp all over any $20,000 speaker on the planet. Obviously most of us can’t afford it, […]
Does anyone here have experience with this? Over on my recent “High-End (ahem!) British Amp” thread, I was advised that one solution to a budget ‘Power + SQ’ combo would be using a Studio-brand power amp at home, like Mc2 or Yamaha. Presumably fed by a decent pre-amp as I have multiple sources to connect. […]
Roy Harper has a glittering list of admirers, from Pink Floyd to Kate Bush. He tells Rob Hughes why it’s taken 13 years to make a new album. Roy Harper has spent the past five decades crafting some of the most vivid, ravishingly beautiful music of our times. He’s 72 now, one of […]
Will someone please show illustrate to me why there is no point going beyond 16/44. Personally I cannot discern any difference, I would however appreciate knowing why, in detail. Many thanks.
If there is an interest I would be happy to provide ways to warm up with a variac, clean potentiometers and generally go about the cleaning and caretaking of a vintage amp to get it up to speed. This is not by any means a cure all but just a guideline for getting old tube […]