Month: December 2022
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PAUL McGOWAN Funny thing is, there’s really no good answer any more. I used to advocate RPG diffusors and personally I use a combination of RPG and DAAD Diffusors but it seems RPG has gone away from high-end accessibility and DAAD is not something you can afford. Where does one go now and what the […]
Having read John Clarke’s elegantly-written, though fundamentally blasphemous, tirade against my beloved Smiths, I thought that as soon as calmed myself down a bit, I would indulge in some scathing iconoclasm of my own. Because there is one band that I have consistently disliked since the first time their fingernail-sounds scratched down the tonally-sensitive blackboard […]
Including Stuart Skelton as Peter Grimes, Kristian Bezuidenhout playing Beethoven concertos and Bernard Haitink’s Bruckner Continues HERE
omenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas crop up regularly enough in recitals, most often in a group of four or five beginning a programme, or acting as a palate-cleanser between more substantial works. Concerts devoted exclusively to them are rare, but in doing precisely that harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani was on a mission to encourage his audience to […]
I have a nice pair of Tannoy SGM 10B Super Gold monitors that I’m thinking about selling, but not sure how much to ask. Couldn’t find them in the Audiogon Bluebook and thought maybe you Tannoy fans would know. . These were originally used in an LA recording studio and are 100% stock and in […]
An engaging and interesting read from 2015. Dave has a partly-defunct old hi-fi system, and an awful lot of vinyl. What’s the best way to update or replace his system for the modern age? Read the whole piece HERE
Are Kraftwerk the most influential group in pop history? Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark thinks so. “People always go back to how the American blues was lifted by the British and turned into pop in the Sixties, but that was a long time ago, and its reign was 20 or 30 years,” […]
From our archives It only seems like a couple of weeks since Caravan announced in August 2013 that they were to record a new album that would be financed by money pledged by fans, and yet here it is already! What should have been a joyous time for the band and fans alike was sadly […]
A film about the sound of Australian rock and the emergence of one of the world’s greatest rock bands – AC/DC, or Acca Dacca as they are known in Australia, and the legendary music company, Albert Music (Alberts) that helped launched them on to the global rock scene. Through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Alberts […]
Were you there and would like to relive the moment? Well, you can, right HERE
Ken Kessler writes ….. Oh, are we spoiled when it comes to music. For over a century, we’ve had methods of hearing music in the home, recordings by the world’s greatest singers and musicians, played back via cylinders, 78s, vinyl records, tapes and CDs. Now we’re even free of these physical formats: we can stream […]
View it HERE Thank you Howard