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Not until we got deeply immersed in the building of a state-of-the-art recording label, Octave Records did it occur to us just how important the recording/mixing monitors are to the final outcome. Consider that every single decision made in any recording is 100% determined by ear. No measurement arguments live here. If the guitar sounds too bright […]
Brand and pedigree set expectations. A Mundorf or REL capacitor has more good feelings associated with them than an XYZ capacitor. Yet, that XYZ capacitor might just blow the socks off either brand. The trick, then, is to avoid the manufacturer’s easy way out: choosing a recognizable brand to delight the eye of the customer […]
Neil (editor) here. I took a fresh look at this thread just now. Although it started a while back, there is a LOT of useful comment there. Certainly worth dipping in and out I feel – which is why I point you towards it. ============== Hello, I’m Rene from Holland, I have a AKAI […]
Michael Vronski … I don’t claim to be a futurologist. However sometimes it’s possible to read some signs and occasionally for a view of which way the commercial wind is blowing. And I mean the way that wind is blowing, but not necessarily the speed and strength of that wind.My belief is that with the […]
Paul McGowan writes … Sadly, following a massive three-day fire at Japan’s Nobeoka City factory of semiconductor producer Asahi Kasei Microsystems (AKM), we have lost one of the great audio houses. AKM was one of the best manufacturers of audio ICs in the world, in particular, A/D and D/A converters. The AKM fire broke out […]
“There is much word of mouth promotion and also forum discussion elsewhere in Europe, but there is also politics on those forums, but at least NVA can be discussed. Here we are banned from the three forums that carry weight of membership numbers, so how do I break past this censorship, which is deliberate to […]
OUR GLOBAL HIFI MARKETPLACE
Whenever I am asked what I do for a living there’s a common pattern of questioning that follows. “My family owns a small company that makes HiFi equipment.” “Oh, like Sony?” “No. Our customers are audiophiles.” What follows is the inevitable eyebrow raise as the second half of the word audio-phile leaves my mouth. “An audiophile is […]
OUR GLOBAL HIFI MARKETPLACE