FROM OUR ARCHIVES This is the August 06 newsletter. You didn’t miss the July 06 issue – because there wasn’t one. There should have been – but I didn’t quite get around to it. Recent music in VERY heavy rotation here in the past few weeks include: Nils Lofgren: “Acoustic Live” (and not just for […]
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Howard Popeck: First, some evolutionary history. Someone (their name escapes me) concluded that it was logical, sensible and intelligent to consider if there were life forms smaller than could be seen by the human eye. This being despite the fact that this enlightened person lacked the precision instruments necessary to get the answer. My point […]
From our extensive archive of vintage tonearms.
Amphion Loudspeakers founder and Managing Director Anssi Hyvönen in a short video explaining the reason why we set the crossover point at 1600 Hz.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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
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, […]
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 […]
A few images from our vault folks and no, we don’t have any for sale.
Music. What about that? I love the music of J S Bach and that of The Who – and much else besides. Equipment? I think vintage Meridian equipment cannot be over praised and that their modern stuff is technically brilliant but musically soulless for me. It’s just an opinion. I guess I’m as likely to […]
We have a problem. The music industry has been celebrating a surge of interest in one of its most beloved artifacts: the vinyl record. Major labels are returning to their old business model and are quickly saturating clothes stores, online shops, electronics outlets and international vinyl-themed holidays with reissues of old classics. It’s easy to […]