New cables and companies making them are pretty much two a penny these days, but when user reviews on forums and blogs indicate something of special interest I take notice. The last time a popular groundswell of online opinion revolved around a cable (and still does) this led me to review the Mark Grant G1000HD […]
Description The NVA LS6 is a development of the ideas used in the NVA LS1, 3 and 5 cables. Where they are based on a raw cable design of 7, 14 and 28 individual cores, the LS6 uses a different cable with 48 separately insulated cores, 20 of them thicker silver plated and 28 of […]
Introduction This is Brian Eno’s suggestion, or studies, for the bell chimes that might be used with The Clock of The Long Now. So before I start the review of this disc, I ought to explain what the Clock is. Quoting from his book “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, Stewart Brand […]
Most times I am offered items for review I can approach them with no vested interest, as they are usually new to me and as such I have a neutral open mind about them, but not in the case of this particular review subject. This was a review loaded with many potential issues, not least […]
I wondered how long it might be after Deltec Precision Audio had returned to the audio market that they once again had a DAC as part of their product portfolio. Not that long as it has turned out and its a real blast from the past, looking identical to some of their1990’s range of Digital […]
This is the last in my series of TrusoundZ cables reviews and up until a few years ago it would have been seen as being about a fairly anachronistic topic (certainly re two channel audio) in so much that separate digital to analogue converters (DACs) had been out of vogue for quite awhile and thus […]
Calyx Audio were a new name to me when I first saw one of their attractive hewn from solid DACs at the March Audio World show last year. The DAC was being used as part of a computer audio set up and if I am honest that aspect of things turned me off slightly. I […]
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 […]
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 […]