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Good afternoon. I am curious about Infinity tone arms. Is there any info you can offer please? Certainly. The first arms that the company sold were actually Infinity branded versions of the Forrmula 4 Tonearms but in the late 70’s it introduced a pivoted arm of it’s own manufacture that featured a carbon fibre arm […]
Dear oh dear. Another re-run of the day before – almost. Must get to grips with the paperwork, inconsistent focus and all-too-easy distractions. Make a note not to look at eBay or the BBC website on Wednesday. Tough call. “My fellow addicts, I come to you this evening to tell you that I am an […]
First published in 2011 Howard Popeck writes: Mail-order bride anyone? All purchases, from cars to mail-order brides carry a risk. Audiophile gear is no exception. However there are unavoidable and avoidable risks when it comes to imported equipment. This article seeks to shed light on an unacceptable risk in the hope that readers are alerted […]
Melco launches an all-new flagship music library the N1-S38 Melco Audio, the Japanese digital music expert, has launched the N1-S38, an all-new flagship SSD-based digital music library offering the best sonic performance in the company’s history. (£11,995) The new ground-up design is based around a new platform, with a new chassis and casework, plus new […]
Digital signal processing, spatial audio and the perception of audio form an important part of our research. The University’s presence at MediaCityUK, alongside the BBC and other media, future media and broadcast organisations, creates an important driver for research. The research centre is a lead partner in the BBC’s Audio Research Partnership. We are also […]
Paul McGowan / PS AUDIO We often take standards for granted. Yet, inevitably, there’s a long history behind their creation. Take the idea of measuring distortion. Today, it seems rather obvious that before we listen to a new design, we’d want to measure its ability to pass a single unimpeded. To do that we place […]
Lloyd ‘Ace’ Grover writes … Company based in Portland, Oregon, USA that manufactured mid end loudspeaker systems that featured a unique patented line source/wave bending tweeter that is also referred to by the Linaeum name, note that their trademark used a ligature, i.e. it was written Linæum rather than Linaeum like the company name. Run […]
A couple of years ago a family member gave me a burnt disc of a band called Tricky Pixie. This was their first release under this band name, album is Mythcreants. I have listened to this disc a ton, and really enjoyed the music, and always thought it was well recorded. But I had lost […]
Time for an all purpose Deltec thread as I’ve just landed a DPA PDM3 at a bargain price from teh eBays: My figuring being that Deltec always had a reputation for making really good digital kit and even though this one didn’t make much of a splash at it’s original £2650 price tag it has […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan Just heading out the door, went to fire up the dishwasher and the marketing pitch on the soap caught my eye. “Now, Hypo Allergenic!” What the hell does that mean? It was the main selling feature of the dishwashing soap and for years I have taken it for granted. In […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan Of all the questions we are asked by customers, finding and fixing hum is perhaps number one. Ground loops would be our first suspect, but a close second is hum and noise from turntables. Ground loops occur when two pieces of interconnected equipment find themselves grounded at different levels (one […]
Neil McCauley asks Howard Popeck: What were the best reproduced sounds you ever heard in the early days? Not easy to answer. Depends on one’s definition of best. If you take just listenability i.e. the customer’s sound is so good right now that I’m not going to unpack my demo gear, then it would have […]
Q: Misinformation and / or disinformation and /or the truth; which is it? A: Correct me if I’m wrong but I seem to recall, in a general business magazine some years ago that interviewed you that as a serial entrepreneur with a passion for music in the home, you were going to attempt to create […]
