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 [...]
Introduction My involvement with music and audio goes back some 45 years. In those early days I could not afford to buy ready-made equipment (save, obviously, a record deck and cartridge) and had to build my own amplifier and speakers. However I read the audio press of the time (which were a better read [...]
In this day and age of USB driven DAC’s and computers being used as digital music transports its nice to see a company still prepared to develop a new coaxial digital cable for traditional – I will resist saying legacy – SPDIF digital data transfer (1) Despite the growing popularity of computers as sources of [...]
In this the last part of the National Audio show we will visit some more interesting rooms, so lets press on and experience some more of the audio wonders that last Septembers 2012′s NAS Show had to offer. 153 – Highend Cable In a much smaller room upstairs this year – and all the better [...]