The debate, nay war, continues to rage on across internet forums, on the real and virtual pages of audio magazines and I guess in bars up and down the country, even world, where audiophiles meet to discuss music (I hope) equipment (I am fairly sure) and the reality of signal and mains-cables making a difference [...]

Soft Machine were formed in Canterbury in June 1966; the members originally being Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayres, Robert Wyatt, Larry Nolan and Mike Ratledge. At this time the group were called Mister Head, but soon changed their name to The Soft Machine, after the novel by William Burroughs [1].
Larry Nolan left the group in October [...]

Around about the same time that LW Audio sent me the Stereoknight Silverstone and Enigma pre-amplifiers to review, I was also sent a quantity of cables from TrusoundZ, a cable brand I had not come across before visiting the March Heathrow HiFi Show at the Park Inn, where LW Audio distributors of SteroKnight were using [...]

This is a user review of the Mark Levinson No.28 preamplifier. Despite bearing the Mark Levinson name, the design was made after Madrigal had bought out the Levinson brand and design rights. It also explains the change of the model number designation from “ML- xx” to “No. xx”.

Shortly after receiving the StereoKnight Silverstone B&R passive magnetic pre-amplifier that I reviewed positively recently, its bigger brother the Enigma 1.0R arrived. The much larger box the delivery man brought to my front door gave the game away re the difference in size between the two pre-amplifiers; the Enigma is at least twice as big. [...]

Track Audo Isolators – It’s in the Construction
Quite a few months back, November 2010 to be exact, I was sent a number of items, from relatively new company Track Audio to review. Among these items were a pair of speaker stands the Precision 600’s which ended up as a pair of  Precision 700’s, as I [...]

Despite the much reduced size of last March’s Audio World 2011 show at the Park Inn, Heathrow, London there were still new brands to be discovered and one such was StereoKnight, an American company based in Germantown,Tennessee where they make a comprehensive range of pre-amplifiers, one integrated amplifier (so far) the S40 and one mono [...]

This is a user report of the Swiss made Nagra two-track portable tape machine, the model IV-S (sometimes referred to as the model 4 – S, the ‘S’ denoting “stereo”) as used in a domestic audio set-up.
As I don’t have another working tape machine with which to compare it, apart from an elderly Ferrograph 632 [...]

Just how much difference can a step-up transformer make? After all, the CineMag step-up transformers I’ve been using are not too shabby and are well regarded in the forums as a bit of a bargain. So can a SUT make enough difference to justify spending any more? Read on to find out.
Hashimoto
Hashimoto are a Japanese [...]

Le Trio Joubran – Majâz
(2007, Harmonia Mundi, RANDANA RAND 002)
Le Trio Joubran are three brothers: Samir, Wissam and Adnan, descendents from a Palestinian family of oud (a North African and Middle Eastern pear-shaped fretless lute) makers and players going back four generations.
Their mastery of the oud is singular and so is the harmony and the synchronization of [...]