Sunday just past saw the second of the biannual vintage audio buy, sell, swap and meet events take place in its usual venue of the Angel Leisure Centre, Tonbridge, Kent and Adventures in High Fidelity Audio show reporter Fernando Barbosa was on site to take the following images that give a snap shot of the […]
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 […]
When Wesley Cunningham of Living Space/Audio Space told me a few months back that he was organising a mini hifi show at the Stormont Hotel, I received the news with a mixture of emotions. I was delighted that there would be an audio show in Belfast but equally I was disappointed it would only […]
The audio side of Belfast retailer Living Space – Audio Space (Naim audio distributor for Ireland) – is having a mini audio show this weekend at the Stormont Hotel in the Conference Centre with Naim Audio, Focal, Chord Company and Rega on show. Admission is free, and the show begins at 10am running to 6pm […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]