Blogs
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Meet Your Maker: Bowers & Wilkins
|Although most of what Bowers & Wilkins manufactures now comes out of China, the prestigious 800 Series and Nautilus loudspeakers are still made by hand in a factory in Worthing, on the south coast of ...read more -
An Audiophile EDC
|Every Day Carry, or EDC, is fast becoming a popular pastime among some sections of the online community. It’s an excuse for men to categorise everything and photograph their lives in minute detail, without the ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: The Listening Suite
|Most of our Meet Your Dealer sessions are relatively standard issue. They revolve around a series of answers to a stock set of questions. Occasionally though, this concept is abandoned because what the dealer in ...read more -
Charley Hansen 1956-2017
|November 2017 has been a tough month for the audio industry: we lost some of the greats in our little world. Arnie Nudell of Infinity fame, Dick Shahinian of Shahinian Acoustics Ltd, and Charley Hansen ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: Deco Audio
|Deco Audio in Aylesbury is perhaps the most traditional audio store opened recently in the UK, but that’s perhaps understandable, as it extends the long and significant tradition of having fine audio stores in the ...read more -
Zagreb AV Show
|Run by the Croatian hifimedia magazine, the Zagreb AV Show is one of the secret regular fixtures on the audio calendar. In its 23rd year, this is a comparatively small show, reflecting both the size ...read more -
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (Part Two of Two)
|In our final part of our round-up of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (Editor’s note: delayed on the part of the Editor due to illness of the Editor), Roy Gregory trawls Denver in search of the ...read more -
Raising the Bar (a preview): AudioNet Stern preamplifier and Heisenberg monoblock power amplifiers
|Early in 2017 I took two opportunities to hear a very special audio system located in the large listening room at the GTT Audio facility in Long Valley, New Jersey, USA. The system was comprised ...read more -
CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 – Part 4, Personal Audio Cables & Accessories, Best of Show
|What follows is Part 4 in a four-part series of snapshot-style reports on new (or at least new-ish) personal audio products seen at CanJam RMAF 2017. For the sake of clarity, we have broken out ...read more -
CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 – Part 3 Personal Audio Electronics
|What follows is a Part 3 in a four=part series of snapshot-style reports on new (or at least new-ish) personal audio products seen at CanJam RMAF 2017. For the sake of clarity, we have broken ...read more -
CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 – Part 2, Earphones & CIEMs
|What follows is Part 2 in a four-part series of snapshot-style reports on new (or at least new-ish) personal audio products seen at CanJam RMAF 2017. For the sake of clarity, we have broken out ...read more -
CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 – Part 1, Headphones
|By tradition, CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest is one of the largest and most vibrant CanJam events of the year and CanJam RMAF 2017, held on October 6 – 8, certainly did not disappoint. ...read more -
Emily Barker: A Sweet Kind of Blue
|We’ve talked to Emily Barker before in these pages and in 2013 she told us about her last solo album Dear River, a collection of songs about her native Australia. She has worked on a ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Paul Speltz, of AntiCables
|As part of the Hi-Fi+ Guide to Audio Cables and Power Products (http://www.hifiplus.com/buyers_guides/6/), we spoke to Paul Speltz of AntiCables about the technologies used by the company, the history and future of AntiCables, and more… ...read more -
Bang & Olufsen: Hugge, Beer, and Beolabs
|Unlike brands like Carlsberg, Bang & Olufsen has only tangentially made a big thing of being Danish. The company may exemplify Scandinavian elegance and may be one of the most important employers in Jutland, but ...read more