Blogs
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CES 2017: Raising its game or a busted flush?
|Waiting to fly back to the UK with a flight full of tech industry and press people gives one a chance to reflect on CES. Last year, I wrote a feature entitled ‘We Need To ...read more -
CES 2017: Reflections from Day Two
|On its second day, the Specialty Audio section of CES in Las Vegas was better attended than the first. Not to the point where the corridors were filled as they once were, but less empty ...read more -
CES: Reflections from Day One
|The Specialty/High End Audio sector of CES is struggling in Las Vegas. Although attendance in the main show is greater than ever, with more than 170,000 people at CES2017, the main audio event in the ...read more -
Exclusive First Listen – Wilson Audio Specialties WAMM Master Chronosonic
|There are several things worth noting here. In our 1,000th posting on our website, we’d thought we’d come up with a sneak preview of one of the most significant high-end loudspeakers of 2017: The Wilson ...read more -
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
|The iconic UK audio brand SME Ltd moved from family ownership. Cadence Group, an Indian-based operation that also has controlling interests in Spendor Audio Systems, Siltech Audio, Crystal Cables, and the Audio Lounge in London ...read more -
CanJam at RMAF 2016 – Part 4 of 4
|Part 4 of our report covers: Onkyo, Oppo Digital, Pioneer, Questyle, RHA Audio, Rupert Neve Design, Schiit Audio, Sennheiser, Sonoma, Sony, Stereo Pravda, Ultrasone, Unison, Wells Audio. Westone Laboratories, and ZMF. Find Part 1 of ...read more -
Coffee and Stethoscopes
|If you want to encapsulate all that Magico represents, ask the company’s founder Alon Wolf about coffee. Or photography. Or guitar playing. Or practically anything in which Alon Wolf expresses an interest. But try it ...read more -
The audiophile clubland scene
|The clubland scene in London has taken a turn for the better and the worse lately. While superclubs like Fabric are finding their licenses revoked for myriad reasons (often citing noise and drug-taking, and equally ...read more -
CanJam at RMAF 2016 – Part 2 of 4
|Part 2 of our report covers: Cavalli Audio, Cayin, Clear Tune Monitors, Echobox Audio, E-Mu Systems, Empire, ENIGMAcoustics, Etymotic Research, Fender, FiiO, Final, FLC, Focal, and Fostex. Find Part 1 our CanJam report here: http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/canjam-at-rmaf-2016-part-1-of-4/ ...read more -
Indulgence Show, London
|The new kid on the show block is called Indulgence. Based in the Novotel hotel in London’s Hammersmith, the show was organised by the same team that has a roaring success with its first-of-the-year Headroom ...read more -
CanJam at RMAF 2016 – Part 1 of 4
|Both the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and CanJam, the well-loved personal audio-centred show-within-a-show faced physical plant obstacles and setbacks that might have stopped lesser shows in their tracks. What happened? Well, in simple terms, the ...read more -
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest – Part One
|The show was compromised on a fundamental level. The hotel promised its facelift would be finished in time, but a few weeks before the annual RMAF opened its doors at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: DB Hi-Fi
|While it’s easy to view the pursuit of high‑fidelity audio as an old man’s pastime, and that the manufacturers and dealers that work in that sector reflect the same ‘old geezer’ demographic, in reality this ...read more -
WIN! A fantastic “Audiophile Starter Kit” from Echobox Audio worth over $800!!!
|We have collaborated with the smart guys at Echobox to bring an fantastic competition with the chance to win a complete Audiophile Starter Kit, comprising the exciting new Explorer DAP (in one of a choice ...read more -
Four new from Naim
|We missed the boat on the latest Naim news, thanks to a rogue website breaking embargo while I was on the flight out to Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. So, instead of simply running the same ...read more