It was with great sadness that I learn’t yesterday that Murray Dick (Jack Williams online nick-name) owner, designer, manufacture of EcoFan Audio had died suddenly. I recall the first time I encountered one of Murray’s designs a fairly plain, slightly old fashioned and truth be told not particularly inspiring looking valve amplifier that a customer [...]
Ever had an itch you wanted to scratch but the opportunity just didn’t present itself? Well for awhile now I have wanted to compare the USB inputs of my AMR DP777 DAC with the coax ones, but a failed attempt with an Audio Gold GD (bought S/H, old model) quiet some time ago had left [...]
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, [...]