This may only be of a niche interest to a tiny minority of readers. However there is some interest in using these professional cartridges in domestic audio systems where the tonearm uses the widespread and conventional SME/EIA bayonet fixing [1]. Introduction First of all it has to be understood that EMT cartridges were specifically designed […]
Introduction It could be argued that the Breuer Dynamic pick-up arm was the first of what was to later become known as ‘super arms’: those high-end arms where the designers pays particular attention to the fit and finish of the materials, particularly the bearings, so that the arm displays a minimal number of (well damped) […]
Among the top of the heap topics to generate nuclear exchanges on audio forums would be, ‘do cables make a difference/improvement over basic cables?’ And this type of hotly debated thread, be it signal cables or mains cables focussed will usually end in circular arguments between those who can hear differences and those who can’t, […]
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 day and age of USB driven DAC’s and computers being used as digital music transports its nice to see a company still prepared to develop a new coaxial digital cable for traditional – I will resist saying legacy – SPDIF digital data transfer (1) Despite the growing popularity of computers as sources of […]
Firstly I owe Jonas Harrow and Rick Schultz of High Fidelity Cables an apology re the lateness of this review but it is well known by now – I think – that I suffered a personal tragedy in November last year that mean’t I didn’t do any reviewing as such and its only recently that […]
A few words before the review. I am well aware this review is quite late – it should have been completed and published Dec 2012 and is also now out of sequence so to speak with the Wireworld USB cable reviews and the iFi Audio iDAC and iUSB Power reviews which should have followed it […]
Products that benefit from the trickle down of technology from designs much further up the range are always eagerly desired by those, who for whatever reason are unable to buy top of the range products and are perhaps on a tight budget but are still looking for excellence at an affordable price. New to the […]
Its fairly easy to make the assumption – and I did – that just because a computer is involved that cables won’t make any difference and as I have found out that assumption would be totally wrong. There are those that argue, as there also are in traditional audio circles – but for different reasons – […]
Were this website devoted to performance cars, you might think I was about to describe my experiences of the TVR ‘Chimera’ sports saloon. Sadly no – nor is it a website concerned with classical Greek tales, where you might think I had been cohabiting with that mythical creature: a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s […]