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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Onwards and ever deeper into the labyrinthine of corridors we will go now as we explore more rooms further into the National Audio Show 2012. Catalunya – Jordan Acoustics/Marantz/Boston Acoustics Marantz’s brand ambassador/designer Ken Ishitwata was busy all weekend doing timed demonstrations in this room – sadly time constraints meant I could not attend – and during […]
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 […]
Having been invited to attend Audio Jumble several times by John Howes, in the past I have sadly not yet been able to attend myself, but at the recent National Audio Show held at Whittelbury Hall Mike Butler of Track Audio said that he was going to be attending, so I asked him if he […]
After working my way around the Brooklands suite – see Part One for details – I entered the rabbit warren of corridors that wend their way into the interior of the hotel and the first room I visited was Decent Audio who this year had opted for a smaller downstairs room to their usual upstairs one. Room […]
This years National Audio Show was quite a bit smaller than on previous years with Absolute Sounds, Audio Freaks, Missing Link, Black Rhodium and a number of other regulars staying away the reasons for which I am not privy to but it did make NAS 2012 a little poorer overall. However this slight reduction made […]