Blogs
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Sneak Peak: Vertere RG-1 turntable and SG-1 tonearm
|A couple of years ago, a cable company made a tonearm. That is interesting enough in its own right, but the tonearm it made cost £27,000, making it the most expensive production tonearm in history. ...read more -
Is size important?
|In the audio world, the British are perhaps best known for making great sounding small loudspeakers. It may well be that we are experts in other audio fields (we have a number of excellent turntable ...read more -
First Listen: Noble Audio Kaiser 10 (K10) custom-fit in-ear monitors
|At AXPONA 2014 I experienced a ‘new-to-me/ discovery when I was introduced to Noble Audio (not to be confused with the great in-wall loudspeaker manufacturer Noble Fidelity) and Brannan Mason, one of the co-owners of ...read more -
Why do bad things happen to good systems?
|As audiophiles, we have all experienced this. Despite all our care, attention, and diligence, that textbook high-end supersystem just sounds flat, drab and uninspired. You might have spent years building it, months tweaking it, and ...read more -
First Listen: AURALiC GEMINI 2000 headphone amp/DAC/stand
|AURALIC’s GEMINI 2000 and 1000 products were first drawn to my attention, if I remember correctly, last October at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013. At the time, the products were in their final pre-production ...read more -
Unplanned obsolescence
|A few years ago, at least one set of conspiracy theorists were proved right. After the reunification of Germany, historians were sifting through the archives of the Osram factory in the former East Germany, and ...read more -
CD’s comeback concert?
|In 2011, I spoke with one well-known US distributor who sells, among other things, a brand with a strong presence in the magneto-optical world. If you are considering a high-end CD or SACD player, this ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Hideaki Niskikawa of TechDAS
|The TechDAS turntable system has quickly become one of the most important vinyl replay systems in today’s high-end. The Air Force One and now Air Force Two turntables are rated by many as the best ...read more -
Riggers with attitude
|Britannia Row Productions started life in 1975 as a permanent base for Pink Floyd’s tour PA and technical crew. It quickly became a business in its own right, hiring out lights, sound, staging, and crew ...read more -
When high-end isn’t high enough
|Until a few years ago, the high-end world was a little sleepy, but stable. You knew with some certainty that if you could afford ‘good’ audio, you could just reach ‘better’, and aspire to ‘best’. ...read more -
For whom the bell tolls – Mike Oldfield interview
|If you had written Tubular Bells as a teenager and saw it go on to sell in excess of 17 million copies worldwide, in the process setting you up for a critically acclaimed and eclectic ...read more -
Vangelis Interview
|Although most now associate the name with the Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks and the score for Carl Sagan’s epic Cosmos TV series, Vangelis’ career as a composer, musician and producer spans more ...read more -
Axpona 2014 Redux - Loudspeakers and Electronics
|Before memories of the Axpona 2014 show fade into the past, we wanted to take a few moments to capture in photographs several of the terrific-sounding loudspeaker and electronics combinations we heard at the show. ...read more -
Keeping classics alive
|The landscape of consumer electronics forever changed with the rise of the personal computer. Where once we set our clock by the lifespan of a TV or even a toaster, we now figure our replacement ...read more -
Setting up home with Shelby Lynne
|I recently overstayed my welcome at a dealer event. It was at KJ West One in the heart of London, where Jason the salesperson was busily preparing a Naim Statement versus Constellation Audio Performance demonstration ...read more