Having bought both an iFi Audio USB Power and iFi Audio iDAC after reviewing them a little while ago I was asked by Vincent Luke of iFi Audio and also Abbingdon Music Research (AMR) if I would like to review their new – highly anticipated USB cable – I didn’t have to think about it [...]
Thanks to Fernando Barbosa we can once again visit the just past Audio Jumble, held as usual at the Angel Leisure Centre Tonbridge. This year visitors had to battle their way through floods of near Biblical proportions to reach the venue and based on Fernando’s photos it looked like a good Audio Jumble – well [...]
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This may only be of a niche interest to a tiny minority of readers. However there is some interest in using these professional cartridges in domestic audio systems where the tonearm uses the widespread and conventional SME/EIA bayonet fixing [1]. Introduction First of all it has to be understood that EMT cartridges were specifically designed [...]
Introduction It could be argued that the Breuer Dynamic pick-up arm was the first of what was to later become known as ‘super arms’: those high-end arms where the designers pays particular attention to the fit and finish of the materials, particularly the bearings, so that the arm displays a minimal number of (well damped) [...]
Sunday just past saw the second of the biannual vintage audio buy, sell, swap and meet events take place in its usual venue of the Angel Leisure Centre, Tonbridge, Kent and Adventures in High Fidelity Audio show reporter Fernando Barbosa was on site to take the following images that give a snap shot of the [...]
Two weekends ago – 21st and 22nd of September – saw this years National Audio Show or NAS for short take place at its usual home of Whittelbury Hall Northamptonshire and it certainly looked to be a smaller event than last years show (based on comparing Show Guides) – in fact I would myself now [...]
Among the top of the heap topics to generate nuclear exchanges on audio forums would be, ‘do cables make a difference/improvement over basic cables?’ And this type of hotly debated thread, be it signal cables or mains cables focussed will usually end in circular arguments between those who can hear differences and those who can’t, [...]
When Wesley Cunningham of Living Space/Audio Space told me a few months back that he was organising a mini hifi show at the Stormont Hotel, I received the news with a mixture of emotions. I was delighted that there would be an audio show in Belfast but equally I was disappointed it would only [...]
The audio side of Belfast retailer Living Space – Audio Space (Naim audio distributor for Ireland) – is having a mini audio show this weekend at the Stormont Hotel in the Conference Centre with Naim Audio, Focal, Chord Company and Rega on show. Admission is free, and the show begins at 10am running to 6pm [...]