YAMAMURA CHURCHILL: What happened?

Neil – what’s the story re Yamamura Churchill Limited please? First things first – the following is not to be confused with (a) Yamamura Systems S.R.L. nor (b) Yamamura Systems (US) Inc. So, this is what I have discovered online: British company founded in 1994 by Robert William Charles Spencer Churchill and was based in […]

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AUDIO INSIDER

BIAS FEEDING: Ever notice how the more you become convinced of something the more you feed that belief?

Paul McGowan / PS AUDIO If we believe analog is superior to digital or vice versa, we tend to gravitate toward other groups that believe the same thing. It seems true in politics, stereos, cars, and perhaps even stamp collecting. We’re looking for affirmational support that we made the right choice. Newbies to our hobby […]

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What would happen if we could eliminate the impedance of the wires feeding our homes?m

Paul McGowan / PS AUDIO In yesterday’s post, I gave a bit of background on our path at PS Audio of increasing power transformer sizing. Quite by accident, we had found that oversizing the power transformers in our products delivered audibly superior performance. It was the increased wire gauge with its subsequent lowering of impedance that […]

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READERS’ LETTERS: Switch mode versus traditional power supplies

A member writes: My new Class D GaNFET amp (Starkrimson Ultra) has dual mono SMPS that are deadly quiet (very black backgrounds), provide tremendous headroom (1000wpc clean peak power-4 ohms), and produce sonic realism and presentations that are jaw-dropping Live…all with a Total package weight of just 18#! 😉 —//— A member writes: Almost every […]

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READERS’ LETTERS: Does the CD layer of an SACD sound better?

A member writes: I think in order to store a DSD recording onto a disk it has to be stored on a SACD disk and played back on an SACD capable player otherwise if played on a standard CD player you would only hear the standard pressing and not DSD. —//— A member writes: SACD […]

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Bo Diddley and Ron Wood – Live At The Ritz (DVD)

“In one thrilling 1987 concert, two mighty icons of blues and rock: Bo Diddley and Ron Wood. The two men work out here on a riveting set, combining Bo Diddley’s signature songs – ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘I’m A Man’ among them – with songs from Ron Wood’s long career as a rocker: ‘Plynth,’ ‘Outlaws,’ ‘Honky […]

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BOSENDORFER: VC-7 Loudspeakers test review

Howard Popeck writes: Bosendorfer have been making concert pianos for 175 years. This is their first venture into Hi-Fi. Their aspiration was to produce the most authentic sound possible from loudspeakers. So they researched carefully with leading artists and prominent concert halls to help achieve their ambition. Hans Deutsch, their acoustician uses unusual design techniques […]

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UNDERSTANDING: The importance of house wiring

Paul McGowan / PS AUDIO: When we built Music Room One we made a point of electrifying it properly: Dedicated circuits with heavy gauge wire. Had we the time and budget we would have also used grounded conduit as a shield against noise. The importance of a proper AC foundation cannot be understated. The two properties we […]

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SEVENOAKS SOUND and VISION / ROTEL: News

Rotel is a 50 year old family owned organisation dedicated to the design and manufacture of the finest in affordable, high performance home theatre and high fidelity components. Rotel makes everything from core components to complete products themselves, in their own factories, under their own control. MORE

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AUDIO INSIDER

GETTING IT STRAIGHT: It doesn’t take long to figure out the importance of AC power, and perhaps …

Paul McGowan / PS AUDIO It doesn’t take long to figure out the importance of AC power, and perhaps no device can better demonstrate the advantages of perfect AC than a Power Plant. I wonder how many of the thousands of Power Plant owners across the globe really understand what’s important in power—why their AC […]

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MECHANICAL vs. SOLID STATE: “Relays are expensive and cumbersome”

Paul McGowan / PS AUDIO When we need to switch inputs on an analog preamplifier we use a switch. The kind of switch we use affects sound quality. For years we had only mechanical switches from which to choose. Standard switch contacts in those days were nickel or tin-plated while the more expensive and better-sounding […]

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BOWERS and WILKINS: Px8 news

What’s happened? When B&W launched the new Px7 S2 noise-cancelling headphones back in June, it teased that there would be something even better coming later in the year – its flagship headphones, and most advanced headphones yet, the Px8. Now, the Px8s are here – and they’re predictably gorgeous. But do they make the £220 uplift in […]

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