Track Audo Isolators – It’s in the Construction Quite a few months back, November 2010 to be exact, I was sent a number of items, from relatively new company Track Audio to review. Among these items were a pair of speaker stands the Precision 600’s which ended up as a pair of Precision 700’s, as […]
Despite the much reduced size of last March’s Audio World 2011 show at the Park Inn, Heathrow, London there were still new brands to be discovered and one such was StereoKnight, an American company based in Germantown,Tennessee where they make a comprehensive range of pre-amplifiers, one integrated amplifier (so far) the S40 and one mono […]
This is a user report of the Swiss made Nagra two-track portable tape machine, the model IV-S (sometimes referred to as the model 4 – S, the ‘S’ denoting “stereo”) as used in a domestic audio set-up. As I don’t have another working tape machine with which to compare it, apart from an elderly Ferrograph […]
Le Trio Joubran – Majâz (2007, Harmonia Mundi, RANDANA RAND 002) Le Trio Joubran are three brothers: Samir, Wissam and Adnan, descendents from a Palestinian family of oud (a North African and Middle Eastern pear-shaped fretless lute) makers and players going back four generations. Their mastery of the oud is singular and so is the harmony and […]
From time to time on-line audio tests become available on the web, whereby one can listen to pure sinusoidal test tones, either relayed through one’s audio system or through headphones or speakers plugged into the computer. These sort of tests are always a bit of a minefield: either you want to know, for good or […]
Introduction and confession I like integrated amplifiers, you know where you are with an integrated and by using one you remove two levels of potential difficulty you have with a pre-amplifier and power-amplifier combination; namely compatibility between the pre and the power (unless they are from the same brand and even that does not guarantee […]
Firstly I must thank Roy Collins for taking my SD card all the way to Germany and taking as many photos as he has. Secondly the coverage of this show is not to the usual AIHFA standard as Roy is not a HiFi journalist, nor an AIHFA writer but simply an audio enthusiast, who I […]
One area of audio debate which can be guaranteed to set off wars is that of whether audio cables make any difference and even more so can a mains cable alter or improve the sound of a component it is hooked up to. Well I guess it will be no surprise to those that know […]
In this the final part of my report on the Audio World 2011 show I will take you round the last of the Syndicate rooms and give you a round up of my thoughts on the show overall. Syndicate 11 – Revolver Audio/Audion International Regular show exhibition partners Revolver Audio and Audio International were once […]
In this part of my report on the Audio World 2011 show at the Park Inn Heathrow we will take a long walk up the corridor from the Conference Centre, take a left turn (the show was laid out like a large capital letter T) and then proceed to the very far end of the […]