Blogs
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Meet Your Maker: ELAC
|Based in the costal town of Kiel in northern Germany, ELAC began life in 1926. With ELAC’s commanding reputation as a loudspeaker maker, it might seem odd to think that from the late 1940s right ...read more -
What photography can tell us about music
|There is a hobby that has been around in some guise or another since the 19th Century. Its enthusiasts are capable of arguing at length over minutiae about the equipment required to engage in the ...read more -
Silent concert launches JBL Synchros in Europe
|JBL is a big name in the whole audio field. It’s reach extends from PA systems and studio suites to home systems big and small and automotive. So big in fact, you could easily miss ...read more -
Music and HiFi, Part II
|Following on from last week’s blog, I received a number of emails in response. The overwhelming topic that came through was that of the importance you, our readers, strive for: Reproducing the quality of the ...read more -
Music and Hi-Fi: What’s it all about?
|This is the first in a series of blogs. I want to interact with you, our readers, so please feel free to leave comments and suggestions for future topics. I have the enviable position of ...read more -
First Look: CEntrance HiFi-M8 balanced-output portable headphone amp/DAC
|This blog is to give you some first impressions of a very significant new product that will be coming up for a full review in Hi-Fi+ within the next several issues. The product is the ...read more -
Room acoustics without tears
|Of all the chronic problems endemic with the audiophile experience, the thorny subject of room acoustics is perhaps the most intractable. Traditionally, hi-fi enthusiasts have spent a disproportionately large amount of time and money focused ...read more -
Snapshots from RMAF 2013 - Electronics & Source Components
|This article is the second in a two-part series that we’ve called “Snapshots from RMAF 2013”. Rather than a blog, what follows is more an annotated picture album designed to give you a bit of ...read more -
Snapshots from RMAF 2013 - Loudspeakers
|Rather than being a blog in the purest, truest sense of the term, what follows is more an annotated picture album—a pastiche designed to give you a bit of the flavour of the Hi-Fi+ team’s ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 2
|What follows is a mostly pictorial survey of new headphone, earphone, and related products seen and heard at RMAF—some of which will become review subjects in Hi-Fi+ and/or our US-based sister publication The Absolute Sound ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 1
|Over roughly the past decade an alternate high-end audio universe has been emerging—a universe centered on very high-performance headphones, earphones, portable and desktop headphone amplifiers, and amp/DACS. In short, it is a world that might ...read more -
Exaktly Right?
|I deliberately waited a week to discuss a recent launch at Linn Products’ high-tech Glasgow factory. It allowed the ideas to sink in, and get past the ‘wow!’ stage. This is because among the group ...read more -
The fine art of downshifting
|With most economies in some form of recovery – albeit sometimes a baby-steps recovery – talk inevitably comes round to spending money once more. But we’ve all been turned by years of belt-tightening and gloom, ...read more -
A wee dram for Linn’s 40th
|Linn Products – without doubt the UK’s most important turntable manufacturer of recent times – is celebrating the 40th birthday of the company and its first product, with a special an very limited edition of ...read more -
Why I’m not drinking the hi-res Kool-Aid… yet!
|As an editor of an audiophile magazine, I obviously welcome any move that pushes the audio envelope. So recent announcements by the Consumer Electronics Association of increased focus on high-resolution audio (http://www.ce.org/News/News-Releases/Press-Releases/2013-Press-Releases/CEA-Announces-Expanded-Support-of-High-Resolution.aspx) and Sony’s launch ...read more