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Amphion Loudspeakers founder and Managing Director Anssi Hyvönen in a short video explaining the reason why we set the crossover point at 1600 Hz.
Dear friends: who really needs an MM type phono cartridge?, well I will try to share/explain with you what are my experiences about and I hope too that many of you could enrich the topic/subject with your own experiences. For some years ( in this forum ) and time to time I posted that the […]
I’ve put off buying a record cleaning machine for years now, and doing it by hand is just getting old (So am I for that matter). Seems like everyone has an opinion on which machine is best, but nothing really negative on the Loricraft machines. I’m looking for a used machine if possible, and if […]
Tony Andrews is the interviewer Q: How, When and Where did you realise you had an amazing Voice and the talent to use it to great effect. A: I honestly don’t think of myself that way. When I was in my early teens, people who knew me would ask me to sing, rather than try […]
A member writes … So moving coil cartridges are superior to moving magnet are they? Well, that’s common ground, but is it true….probably not. It’s yet another hi fi myth. To keep it short (ha!) the mc tends to have better detail, and thus superior soundstaging. But, and it’s a big ‘but’, that extra detail […]
Analogue Planet write …. The stylus rake angle is the angle the stylus’s “contact patch” makes to the record surface. If you have a relatively inexpensive cartridge with a spherical stylus you don’t have to worry about SRA because the contact area remains the same regardless of arm height. On the other hand, elliptical styli […]
Why do some people enter a listening room and clap their hands? What are they hoping to find out? If they find out, then what do they do? Should I move my system into a basement? Solid walls and no bass boom – right? Now I am doing it. I have no idea why. Help. […]
ROBERT VENABAL – Beatles fan since 1964 writes: Interesting question I’ve often struggled with. In their early days, they played many shows; up to three a day. They were so tight alcohol and drugs seemingly had no effect on them. They were already seasoned stage veterans when signed to first record deal and began recording […]
This is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Buy yourself a turntable outer rim-weight………brand doesn’t matter. These are the metal ring-type weights intended to keep the vinyl flat at the edges just as a centre clamp or weight is intended to keep the record flat at the centre. Now use it religiously on […]
This summer, a computer almost passed the Turing intelligence test. Dan Falk examines the narrowing gap between humans and machines. MORE
180 gram audiophile vinyl Insert Printed innersleeves Special 10 mm sleeve Follows critically-acclaimed, award-winning box set of 2011, Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1, starring ‘second great quintet’ of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams Columbia/Legacy again pays tribute to musical legend Miles Davis with the release […]
My topic today (and I apologise if it might seem like a sermon; not my intention I assure you) is the problem of extremes. By this I mean the high-end system which extends the extremes with, as a consequence, better sounding better AND, worse sounds worse. You must have experienced this surely? In a nutshell, […]
The Silos make their national television debit on “Late Night with David Letterman” in May 1990. Walter Salas-Humara and Bob Rupe perform with Paul Schaeffer, Sid McGinnis, Will Lee, and Anton Figg. They perform “I’m Over You” from their album The Silos.
Editor’s introduction Mr. P has been around the block in this industry since 1976. Behind his occasionally abrasive stance he’s got a treasure trove of memories, anecdotes and opinions. I managed to prise a few of these out of him in this 3-part series. I hope you enjoy the ride. Thank you / Neil McCauley […]
John Strickland writes … Here is an interesting backstory on the recording of “Love Me Do,” and it is quoted from the following source: “There were two songs in contention for the single A side: Love Me Do and a song that George Martin preferred, How Do You Do It?, which was not a Beatles […]
