Blogs
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Burmester at the Mercedes Benz apartments
|In the world of high end, there are often many synergies, many luxuries that are juxtaposed seamlessly; a 30 year old Glenfarclas single malt whisky pairs beautifully with a King of Denmark cigar, for example. ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: GTT Audio
|GTT Audio is not your average high-end audio store, and Bill Parish is not your average high-end audio retailer. His work space is his home; not a converted living room, but a dedicated centre of ...read more -
What is Roon?
|Over the last year or so many articles have been written that include something like “Roon Ready” or “Roon compatible” If you are a new or even an experienced audiophile you may be wondering what ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 – Introduction
|Across the last weekend of Wimbledon fortnight, the heart of London buzzed to the sound of personal audio, as CanJam came to town. In the same venue as last year – the Park Plaza hotel, ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part five
|In the final part of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom feature Stereo Pravda to Westone! StereoPravda Who? Micha Kucherenko, ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part four
|In the penultimate section of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom run from Noble to Sony! Noble Audio Who? Brannan ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part three
|In the third part of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom cover everything from HeadAmp to Mr Speakers! HeadAmp Who: ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part two
|The second part of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017. Here, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom cover everything from Cardas Audio to Flare Audio! Cardas ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part one
|The first part of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017. This time, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom run through all the products up to and ...read more -
LA Audio Show – AS Round Up
|With AXPONA, Munich High End, and the Los Angeles Audio Show falling within six weeks of one another, it’s a pointless task asking, “What’s New?” at the last of the three events. There were a ...read more -
Munich High-End 2017: Final Thoughts and Product of the Show!
|As is often said – including by myself – Munich High-End has become the most important event on the audio calendar. This is not simply because of the attendance figures (even if they are continuing ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Loudspeakers over €15k
|I’m not making excuses for the sound at the Munich High-End show. It was uniformly awful, with a few exceptions. This actually works in our favour because we can concentrate on products of interest rather ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Loudspeakers €15K and below
|Most Promising Newcomers ELAC Adante floorstander prototype ELAC loudspeaker design guru Andrew Jones brought newly assembled prototypes of his upcoming Adante floorstanding loudspeakers (to Munich and we found their sound promising to say the least. ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Heinz Roher of Thorens
|Thorens is one of the grand names in audio. The company’s began making turntables almost back when the rest of the world first started making records. 1903 to be precise, and this wasn’t even Thorens ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Analogue Sources
|Most Promising Newcomers Acoustic Signature Merlin turntable & tone arm In the pantheon of fine turntable/tone arm rigs from the German firm Acoustic Signature, the entry-level models have traditionally been affordable, but not too many ...read more