This year has been personally challenging, in fact the last two years or so have been among the worst I can remember and I think it fair to say that this has somewhat curtailed the amount of editorial on Adventures in High Fidelity Audio. I regret that situation deeply and it disappointed me greatly […]
Words somehow feel inadequate right now re trying to sum up the life of the man (1) who helped define subjective audio reviewing, who gave us both the methodology and terms to do so and a rich vocabulary to help express what Harry heard. Those words and methodology filtered out to the wider audio […]
It was with great sadness that I learn’t yesterday that Murray Dick (Jack Williams online nick-name) owner, designer, manufacture of EcoFan Audio had died suddenly. I recall the first time I encountered one of Murray’s designs a fairly plain, slightly old fashioned and truth be told not particularly inspiring looking valve amplifier that a customer […]
I want to wish all the Adventures in High Fidelity Audio readers, contributors, manufacturers and distributors world wide and their families a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and healthy New Year, without your ongoing support, encouragement and items to review AIHFA would be an impossible venture. Thank you for making AIHFA possible. Regards […]
Two weekends ago – 21st and 22nd of September – saw this years National Audio Show or NAS for short take place at its usual home of Whittelbury Hall Northamptonshire and it certainly looked to be a smaller event than last years show (based on comparing Show Guides) – in fact I would myself now […]
Introduction My involvement with music and audio goes back some 45 years. In those early days I could not afford to buy ready-made equipment (save, obviously, a record deck and cartridge) and had to build my own amplifier and speakers. However I read the audio press of the time (which were a better read […]
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 […]