This is something new. I have had at least one Naim component in my system for the last 27 years. The result of all the swopping and changing ended with me having a LP12/Aro/Armagedden, CDX2, 52, Super, Snaxo, Hi, 250×2, SBL. Finally decided, enough is enough. Sold everything from 52 to SBL, only leaving my […]
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Since the release, in 1966, of ‘Stand Back’, Charlie Musselwhite has recorded over 20 albums and received 18 WC Handy Awards and 6 Grammy nominations. In a career now running into it’s 5th decade he’s played with all the greats (John Lee Hooker was the Best Man at his wedding!) and pushed the boundaries of […]
Here I am bothering you again with the Harbeth matter. I’ve been offered a pair of second hand Harbeth HL5 and I’d like to know your opinion about: Sound. Is there any outstanding sonic difference between a HL5 and a Super HL5? Less highs in the former because the SHL5 carries a super tweeter? What […]
Using a file based system the oath goes like this. (For other media insert as appropriate.) “I swear to reproduce the file, the whole file and nothing but the file so help me listener.” Some recent comments regarding full range drivers and many of the posts I’ve read over the time I’ve been at AoS […]
Well, I just couldn’t help it. This is regarded by many as the best receiver ever made, it appeared locally on ebay, and I just had to have it, to go with my little Spendors in the bedroom system. It is not in quite as good condition as the photo (or the listing) suggest […]
Thomas J. Norton (Stereophile mag) writes: When Cary Christie, Arnie Nudell, and John Ulrick founded Infinity Systems more than 25 years ago, high-end audio as we know it today didn’t exist. Hi-fi was audio, though the reverse wasn’t necessarily true.Through the growth years, Infinity became a major force in the High End. Cary Christie is […]
For a long time, I was on the Great Speaker Hunt, and started or added to a number of threads, particularly about the speaker makes referenced above, all of which I lived with. I was struggling with one of the real problems with (some) high end audio (as I see it): Hearing crisp highs with […]
PAUL McGOWAN / PS AUDIO I received an email from a reader on a rant about lying specs. How manufacturers simply lie about the performance of their products. In calming the person down by explaining manufacturers generally don’t print falsehoods—at least no manufacturer I have ever known—I pointed out that while none are lying there […]
I began reading with interest the recent thread about “Life after Arcs” as i had my eye on a pair and they rarely come up for sale here in Australia. Anyway they have been in for about a week and i have managed a few spins of the cd player and this evening i have […]
From humble beginnings touring American churches in her father’s caravan, Aretha Franklin has since been crowned the ‘Queen of Soul’ and is not only the definitive female soul singer of the Sixties, but also one of the most influential and important voices in pop history. Franklin fused the gospel music she grew up on with […]
