HEAD RECORDS BELFAST TO CLOSE.....Another One Bites The Dust Perhaps?

Two weeks can be an eternity in which the fate of your favourite music retailer can be decided for good or ill.
It was exactly two weeks ago that I last wandered around and bought vinyl and CDs from Belfast’s ‘best independent’ (1) record outlet ‘Head Record’s’ and other than a ‘New Year’s’ sale being under [...]

LONDON/HEATHROW AUDIO SHOWS NO MORE..... 'Chester Group Move Audio World Show Out Of London'

Earlier today it was brought to my attention, that the oft rumoured but denied by Chester Group move of the show to an outside London location from the Park Inn Heathrow pitch has happened and begins this year. The show, still called Audio World (formerly The London High Fidelity Show), will now be held at the [...]

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR FROM ADVENTURES IN HIGH FIDELITY AUDIO

I would just like to take this opportunity to wish all the readers, contributors, manufacturers and distributors a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
Thank you all for your support in 2011 without which  AIHFA would be impossible.
Some of you will have noticed a bit less editorial this year over last year and sadly this was [...]

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 24th – 26th 2011 PART THREE…. ‘The First Floor’

Part Three of the National Audio Show 2011 Show Report, held at Whittelbury hall, Septembner 24th to 26th……

SOUND AND VISION 2011- The Burlington Hotel, Dublin, 5th-6th Nov 2011

SOUND AND VISION 2011- The Burlington Hotel, Dublin, 5th-6th Nov 2011…..

Cloney Audio of Black Rock Dublin have put together an interesting collection of manufacturers and distributors for their upcoming November show, to be held once again at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 24th - 26th 2011 PART TWO.... 'The Ground Floor'

Part Two of the National Audio Show 2011 Show Report, held at Whittelbury hall, Septembner 24th to 26th……

THE NATIONAL AUDIO SHOW 24th - 26th 2011 PART ONE..... 'The Brooklands Suite'

Part One of The National Audio Show 2011 Show Report, held at Whittelbury Hall 24th to 26th September……….

THE EXHIBITORS PROLOGUE THREE - 'SETTING UP WITH JOHN HOWES ACOUSTICS'..... The National Audio Show 2011 preview

Preview of the National Audio Show 2011, featuring John Howes Acoustics and the Paul Voight Memory Domestic Horn Loudspeaker.

THE STATE OF INDEPENDENCE TWO - More Record Shops in Scotland

While in Scotland last September I decided on the spare of the moment to compile a mini compendium of quality record shops that I visit regularly while holidaying there. However this initial idea grew legs and increased in size to include shops I had not visited before. I tried to make it as comprehensive as [...]

IT'S SHOW TIME.... The National Audio Show 2011 24th to 26th of September

Well its that time of year again with the third National Audio Show taking place on the 24th to the 25th of September 2011 for the general public and on the Monday of the following week, the 26th for the Trade only, at Whittlebury Hall, Northants, England.
How the year has flashed by so quickly as [...]