INTRODUCTION…. As promised during the review of the Ecofan Sound 6A3 valve amplifier, I am now able to present my findings on Ecofan’s latest offerings to come from the mind of Murray Dick, the Buffer Zone and Boost It (see separate review below) . I had an opportunity to listen briefly to the Buffer Zone […]
Katie Melua-The House CD Dramatico DramCD0061 Well the question I had in my mind, when I heard that William Orbit was involved in the new album from Katie Melua was “could he do for her, what he did for Madonna ?” We shall see………. The album William both produced, helped compose and played on for […]
The Duckworth Lewis Method -The Duckworth Lewis Method 2009 DCR Dlm002. The Duckworth Lewis Method is apparently a fairly important element to the sport of Cricket and I quote from Wikipedia….” In the sport of cricket, the Duckworth–Lewis method (D/L method) is a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty20 […]
I am very pleased and excited to reveal that Adventures in High Fidelity Audio will be conducting extensive reviews on two new products from Abbingdon Music Research, the CD-777 and the AM-777 integrated amplifier. Both items are being run in as I type (well past 200 + hours on the CD player ) and I […]
The original review, with the above title was done a number of months ago but was not ideal in several ways. Firstly the machine being reviewed was not very old and had not been fully run in. Secondly the review it’s self was conducted over the course of one day. That did not allow for […]
With the recent experience of having to get a Sony 5000 Fw tuner fixed and being able to see it taken apart in front of me has provided me with the first hand knowledge of how the front fascia of a Sony 5130 tuner is held together. The fixing method is very similar to the […]
In order to give some background to the upcoming tuner comparison review in Adventures in High Fidelity Audio (mentioned here on AIHFA for the first time Link…. http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/category/reviews/vintage-audio-review/ ) Since publishing that preview of the forth coming mega tuner review, I have decided to re-publish in full (with a few revisions) the review that was the […]
Snakefarm ‘Songs From My Funeral’ How does one describe Snakefarm’s ‘Songs From My Funeral’? Is it Portishead meets Nick Cave and together they sing American folk classics? Perhaps. Is it slinky ‘80s ‘middle of the road’ meets drum ‘n’ bass? Maybe. Is it jazz funk meets trip-hop? Not quite. It would seem therefore to best […]
Hybrid-Disappear Here (Distinctive Records Disk192 2010) I don’t know about you but it is getting harder to find knowledgeable music enthusiasts to talk to, in what passes these days for a record shop. Once upon a time before music became a commodity, it was possible, even in major record shop chains to find experts to […]
This is the final part of the London Hi-Fidelity Show report….. Outside the EARHART ROOM company exhibiting Furutech. Positioned just at the entrance to Sound Foundations room sat an impressive cabinet full of various products from Japanese company Furutech. Each shelf had various interconnects, mains cables, power cables and both mains and signal plugs. Audio jewelry […]