As G Point Audio finished setting their room up by 5.30, this left me with some free time to explore other parts of Whittelbury Hall, so I made my way down to the large space that has a number of exhibitors set up in the very large room that is the Brooklands Suite so it […]
Well as has become tradition for me – since starting the Exhibitors Prologue way back in 2010 – I arrived at the National Audio Show 2012, held at Whittelbury Hall one day early in order to chronicle the arrival, unloading and setting up of an exhibitioners room. This year it was my honour to do so for […]
EXHIBITOR ANNOUNCEMENTS It’s not just the Organisers that have plenty to shout about, our fantastic selection of Exhibitors are working hard to make this a ‘Whittlebury’ show to remember. Here are just a few announcements.. TANNOY TO LAUNCH THE DEFINITION DC10A AT NAS12 VTL PREMIERS NEW PRODUCTS AT WHITTLEBURY The sweet and refined sound of Alnico […]
Hard to believe but its a whole year since I attended the last National Audio Show – or in fact any audio show – and in a few weeks time I will be attending this years – once again held at the Whittelbury Hall hotel on the 22nd to 23rd 0f September. As per previous […]
I am keenly aware of my leaving a few record shops off my last article – due to A not knowing about them or B lack of time to visit them – so I sought recently – while on holiday in Scotland – to try my best to cover the remaining easy to get to […]
I was delighted to learn recently that with so many retail businesses closing on the high street at the minute that Head, part of a somewhat endangered species, the record shop, had just bucked the trend and reopened in the just vacated pitch that was recently occupied by Vogue. Head reopened on the 14th of […]
Were this website devoted to performance cars, you might think I was about to describe my experiences of the TVR ‘Chimera’ sports saloon. Sadly no – nor is it a website concerned with classical Greek tales, where you might think I had been cohabiting with that mythical creature: a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s […]
New cables and companies making them are pretty much two a penny these days, but when user reviews on forums and blogs indicate something of special interest I take notice. The last time a popular groundswell of online opinion revolved around a cable (and still does) this led me to review the Mark Grant G1000HD […]
Description The NVA LS6 is a development of the ideas used in the NVA LS1, 3 and 5 cables. Where they are based on a raw cable design of 7, 14 and 28 individual cores, the LS6 uses a different cable with 48 separately insulated cores, 20 of them thicker silver plated and 28 of […]
Introduction This is Brian Eno’s suggestion, or studies, for the bell chimes that might be used with The Clock of The Long Now. So before I start the review of this disc, I ought to explain what the Clock is. Quoting from his book “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, Stewart Brand […]