What is the future of audio in the home? With more and more money being spent on speakers and clever audio tricks, what are you really getting for your money? LJ Rich examines a £10,000 ($16,000) speaker and finds out why it is impossible to recreate the sound of an orchestra in your living room.” […]
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The thread starts ….. My current room is too small for my Snell Es. I will get a bigger room in the future. In the meantime, haw far can tube traps and wall traps go to eliminate my boomy bass problem? MORE
Beneath the most unremarkable houses lurk the most remarkable sound systems. Alexis Petridis investigates. In a room off the hotel lobby, I find Steve, a building contractor from Essex, who has devoted his spare time to assembling the most deranged-looking hi-fi system I’ve ever seen. The speakers have something resembling the horn from an old […]
I was clearing out my Iphone photos and found these, thought they might be of interest. I was in South Korea on business last year and killed some time in a four or five story electronics mall (Can’t remember the name). Observe the conversation and/or express your view by clicking HERE
Originally published in 2007 TechRadar writes: Most hi-fi systems on sale worldwide are so heavily marked up that the majority of customers are being scandalously ripped off. That’s what AVI hi-fi chief Ashley James said in an interview conducted with Tech.co.uk last Friday at the Bristol Sound & Vision Show . He also said that […]
Has anyone on here tried or using it ? What do you think? Please click HERE to continue reading Editor’s note: Notwithstanding borderline nasty sniping from at least one PFM contributor, Mr. Burwen offers a dignified response HERE
“From the Isoclean products to the Weizhi over to the Stage 3 power cables and now to the Thales IC. The S3 and Thales are by far the best AC/IC I have ever heard in my system. No cable has come close to them. The new AC passive units Brain sells are said to better […]
“I’m ready to move on from my current system: Bryston 4BST, Proceed Pre, Revel Performa F30’s and Ayre QB-9 DSD DAC. I’m planning to keep the DAC, and swap the Bryston and Proceed out for a decent integrated SS amp (just don’t want to “do” tubes, even though I think they can sound great). […]
The law of diminishing returns: you have to spend disproportionally more to get smaller and smaller improvements. MORE
I’ve owned a lot of speakers over the years but I have never experienced anything like the midrange reproduction from my horns. With a frequency response of 300 Hz. up to 14 Khz. from a single distortionless driver, it seems like a no-brainer that everyone would want this performance. Why don’t you use horns? […]
I am sure somebody will start saying I have an agenda or I am selling something so I will leave it as an open question without comment. BTW I do not count a tweeter protection cap as a crossover, it is the rest I am talking about. So saying to protect the tweeter doesn’t […]
During a recent high end demo, a track I’m very familiar with (Teardrop by Massive Attack) and have heard innumerable times, was played through a “top of the range” hi-fi system. There was pretty obvious distortion of the piano notes in the intro. I pointed it out, and we played the same track on […]
Do any Japanese amps from the 70s onwards do prat as Flat Earthers know prat? Or was it just a UK thing? Dip in and out HERE
I have a Conrad Johnson PV-12A pre-amp. It is phase correct for the phono stage, phase inverting for the line stage. My power amplifier is a conrad johnson MF2100. It is phase correct. So my first idea was to connect the speakers to the power amplifier the wrong way (black to red, red to black) […]
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 […]
The ultimate method of driving a turntable is…………………………..with a 6 cylinder Mercedes engine! Please click HERE to continue reading.
The thread starts: I’ve noticed on this forum a segment that demands blind testing as a means of verifying reports of audibility with “scientific” evidence. The reason for demands of blind tests is to rule out the false positives that sighted listening is known to be prone to. It has long been recognised that blind […]
The thread starts: I earned a living in journalism all my working life.I like and support audio mags, I try to understand the pressures they are under.No sensible person can assume that personal opinions will not colour a review.In the end these things are a matter of opinion, not rock-solid fact. Given all that,I […]
Does anyone know the advantage of using 4 mono blocks to run speakers over the convential two mono blocks,or would it be better to run them in bi amp form as the amps can be run as stereo amps? I tried all the configurations and to be honest cant really tell any difference just looks […]
Hello Folks, Since re-veneering my Rega Ela’s a few weeks ago i started to use my Hi-Fi and listen to music a bit more. getting the use of a proper Hi-Fi system after months of low grade car audio and a small kitchen transistor radio was obviously a great aural feeling. i do also […]
A reader writes ….. “I found some low sensitivity speakers(80 to 86dB)sounds much better at higher volume. It seems to be a threshold volume for this type of speakers to sound right. At low volume, the tonal balance is usually no good. Examples are ATC passive monitors and my pioneer S-A4SPT-PM. Higher sensitivity speakers such […]
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Living voice and kondo amplifiers produce one of the best sounds as per reviews on 6moons,can any body suggest a tube amplifier to partner Living Voice speakers,for which i do not have to spend more than $7000. 24 responses HERE