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, [...]

I normally restrict myself to commenting only on audio and music matters in Adventures in High Fidelity Audio, but tonight a momentous event occurs that is bringing me some degree of sadness and as such I feel I want to comment on the final switch off of analogue television in the United Kingdom. Tonight at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From time to time on-line audio tests become available on the web, whereby one can listen to pure sinusoidal test tones, either relayed through one’s audio system or through headphones or speakers plugged into the computer. These sort of tests are always a bit of a minefield: either you want to know, for good or [...]

This article marks the first contribution to Adventures in High Fidelity Audio by Howard Popeck, well known owner of Stereo Now and at one time contributor to HiFi News, as a reviewer. Welcome to AIHFA Howard. Howard has many interesting views on audio and music related topics, some of which he shares regularly on his [...]