Blogs
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R.I.P. Enzo Natali
|It is with great sadness that we have to announce the passing of Enzo Natali. Founder of Audio Natali in Italy in 1959, Enzo was one of the most important early exponents of high-end audio ...read more -
Computer Audio for Beginners Part 3 (Hi-Fi+ 87)
|Having established a good foundation to choosing and using the right methodology for getting the best out of computer audio, Vince Luke of AMR concludes by looking at some of the issues you might encounter ...read more -
The Playback Guide to Full-Size Headphones
|DOWNLOAD NOW (PDF Version) (If you are having trouble downloading the PDF version of this Buyer's Guide please feel free to download the ZIP version located below) The Playback Guide to Full-Size Headphones is a ...read more -
The Perfect Vision Guide to AVRs, Controllers & Amps
|DOWNLOAD NOW (PDF Version) (If you are having trouble downloading the PDF version of this Buyer's Guide please feel free to download the ZIP version located below) The Perfect Vision Guide to AVRs, Controllers & ...read more -
Ten Great Reasons to Buy British: The UK’s Gold Medalists (Hi-Fi+ 89)
|In this Jubilee year, the year the Olympics comes to London, it’s sometimes hard to find manufacturers that are truly British; designed and built in the UK, by a British-owned company. While we live in ...read more -
PSB’s Paul Barton Takes Playback/Hi-Fi+ On A Guided Tour of Canada’s NRC Acoustics Labs—Part 1
|On May 18, 2012, Paul Barton, founder and chief product developer for PSB Speakers invited me and a handful of other A/V journalists to visit Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for a guided tour of the NRC ...read more -
PSB’s Paul Barton Treats Playback/Hi-Fi+ to Blind Listening Sessions at Canada’s NRC Acoustics Lab—Part 2
|In the first part of this blog, we talked about PSB’s Paul Barton taking a hand-picked group of audio journalists on a guided tour of the anechoic test chamber and control room at the NRC—a ...read more -
First Listen: Ultimate Ears’ New Flagship Personal Reference Monitors (PRM)
|Custom Fit, Custom Sound, Custom Everything Now that the press embargo has been lifted, I can finally tell AVguide/Playback readers about an impressive new Ultimate Ears custom-fit in-ear monitor called the Personal Reference Monitor (or ...read more -
Munich 2012, Part 1 (Vinyl)
|Despite being more subdued than most years, High End at the Munich M.O.C is still the high point in the audiophile show calendar. Two exhibition halls, two atria and four corridors of the latest in ...read more -
Computer Audio for Beginners - Part 2 (Hi-Fi+ 86)
|Following on from Computer Audio for Beginners - Part 1, Vince Luke of AMR goes a little deeper this time, delving into the best ways to transfer CD files to computer hard drives, how to ...read more -
Munich 2012, Part 2 (Electronics)
|Munich High End is a hot spot of high-end electronics, but it needn’t all be high-end. Value driven British audio brand Arcam, for example, may have been showing off its new FMJ DAC, but behind ...read more -
Munich 2012, Part 3 (Loudspeakers)
|Munich is always a fine venue for loudspeakers, especially loudspeakers on the far side of sanity. We live in a world where the majority of music now gets played on ear-buds the size of a ...read more -
New York Audio and AV Show 2012
|In a way, it was badly named; there was no ‘AV’ in the New York Audio and AV Show. There was a lot of audio though, and more than 2,000 attendees. Making it one of ...read more -
Naim Audio NDS. The birth of the SuperStreamer?
|The tale was under embargo until today, but at the beginning of the week Naim Audio launched its new flagship streamer, the £6,250 Naim Audio NDS. It will be shown to the public for the ...read more -
Computer Audio for Beginners - Part 1 (Hi-Fi+ 85)
|My iPhone 4 went ‘honk honk.’ It was from my 13-year old daughter. It read, “OMG where do I put the silver CD thing and how to choose? xxx.” It was my daughter attempting to ...read more