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 [...]

Introduction and confession
I like integrated amplifiers, you know where you are with an integrated and by using one you remove two levels of potential difficulty you have with a pre-amplifier and power-amplifier combination; namely compatibility between the pre and the power (unless they are from the same brand and even that does not guarantee full [...]

One area of audio debate which can be guaranteed to set off wars is that of whether audio cables make any difference and even more so can a mains cable alter or improve the sound of a component it is hooked up to.  Well I guess it will be no surprise to those that know [...]

This is the first review by 22 year old Jason Herzl and I want to offer him a very warm welcome to Adventures in High Fidelity Audio.
Jason is a college student on a very tight budget and as he puts it ‘this has caused me to become quite savy in the “cheap-and-cheerful” Hi-Fi arena’ This approach [...]

Firstly I owe Simon Bennett of Absolute Analogue an apology. He sent me several packets of Bright Star Audio IsoNodes to both try and write about quite a few months ago. Sadly prior reviewing schedules, work commitments and life issues have got in the way but as they say ‘better late than never’. My thanks [...]

Recently I have had the pleasure of listening to two cartridges that despite having ‘Blue’ in their title, could not be more different: a Decca Mk. V, a ‘cantelever less’ design fitted with a spherical tip (also known as the Decca Blue) and a Sumiko ‘Blue Point Special’, possessing a long cantilever and fitted with [...]