THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 2012 PART NINE

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 [...]

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 2012 PART EIGHT

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 [...]

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 2012 PART SEVEN

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 [...]

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 2012 PART SIX

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 [...]

The HiFi Wigwam Enthusiasts Audio Show - Scalford Hall Melton Mowbray 3rd March 2013

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 [...]

AudioJumble - Tonbridge 10th February 2013..... Sunday Audio Sunday!!!

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 [...]

Barry in Japan - A visit to the Akihabara, Tokyo

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, [...]

A PAUSE - MY DAD RIP

Earlier today I received the news that my Dad died last night. I won’t go into all the details here as it isn’t appropriate or required but short to say that Show Reports and Reviews are at the minute not high on my to do lists. So this note is simply placed here to explain why there [...]

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 2012 PART FIVE

In part five of my extensive coverage of the National Audio Show 2012 we will visit the rest of the downstairs exhibitors rooms. Magny Cours – Icon Audio Frankly every time I enter David Shaw’s room at an audio exhibition I don’t know where to start, as the rooms have always been bunged with kit and this [...]

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 2012 PART FOUR - Headzones 2012

One exciting new development at NAS 2012 was the inclusion of a separate show within the main event called Headzones 2012, which was based in the Indianopolis room. This mini show was packed with headphones, headphone amplifiers and computer audio related products such as DACs both with and without a headphone socket. Now I am not [...]