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 […]
In this the penultimate part of the NAS 2012 series of Show Reports, we will visit a few more rooms in the upper floor of the North Hamptonshire Whittelbury Hall venue. 101 – Thomas Audio Support Systems New to me Thomas Audio offer a fairly unique solution to isolating your equipment from air borne and structural […]
In part Seven of Adventures in High Fidelity Audio’s coverage of 2012’s National Audio Show we will continue our exploration of the upper floor of the exhibition. S17 – Epicurean Audio I enjoyed my time – albeit short – in this room and it was nice to get an opportunity to hear amplification from Edge […]
I am well aware these following parts of Adventures in High Fidelity Audio’s coverage of the September 2012 National Audio Show are very late and I debated the relevance of publishing them now, as well over 8 months has passed since this event took place but I felt on balance that there are quite a few interesting […]
Firstly I owe Jonas Harrow and Rick Schultz of High Fidelity Cables an apology re the lateness of this review but it is well known by now – I think – that I suffered a personal tragedy in November last year that mean’t I didn’t do any reviewing as such and its only recently that […]
A few words before the review. I am well aware this review is quite late – it should have been completed and published Dec 2012 and is also now out of sequence so to speak with the Wireworld USB cable reviews and the iFi Audio iDAC and iUSB Power reviews which should have followed it […]
Growing in popularity from year to year the most recent HiFi Wigwam show has just happened having been held on Sunday the 3rd of March at the Scalford Hall hotel in Melton Mowbray. Unlike most audio shows in the UK this one is organised by a HiFi forum and is pretty much, bar sellers of […]
With this first report I want to welcome Fernando Barbosa to the small group of writers who contribute their words gratis to Adventures in High Fidelity Audio. Fernando is a long standing audio enthusiast from Portugal who is resident in the UK and someone I have been exchanging emails with for quite a period of […]
A visit to Akihabara, Tokyo Japan This is a report on a brief visit to the Akihabara district of Tokyo, Japan. I visited Japan in April last year and spent a month travelling around the country. Though I stayed a week in Tokyo I was only able to spend a couple of days in Akihabara, […]