The Duckworth Lewis Method -The Duckworth Lewis Method 2009 DCR Dlm002. The Duckworth Lewis Method is apparently a fairly important element to the sport of Cricket and I quote from Wikipedia….” In the sport of cricket, the Duckworth–Lewis method (D/L method) is a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty20 […]
The original review, with the above title was done a number of months ago but was not ideal in several ways. Firstly the machine being reviewed was not very old and had not been fully run in. Secondly the review it’s self was conducted over the course of one day. That did not allow for […]
With the recent experience of having to get a Sony 5000 Fw tuner fixed and being able to see it taken apart in front of me has provided me with the first hand knowledge of how the front fascia of a Sony 5130 tuner is held together. The fixing method is very similar to the […]
In order to give some background to the upcoming tuner comparison review in Adventures in High Fidelity Audio (mentioned here on AIHFA for the first time Link…. http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/category/reviews/vintage-audio-review/ ) Since publishing that preview of the forth coming mega tuner review, I have decided to re-publish in full (with a few revisions) the review that was the […]
Snakefarm ‘Songs From My Funeral’ How does one describe Snakefarm’s ‘Songs From My Funeral’? Is it Portishead meets Nick Cave and together they sing American folk classics? Perhaps. Is it slinky ‘80s ‘middle of the road’ meets drum ‘n’ bass? Maybe. Is it jazz funk meets trip-hop? Not quite. It would seem therefore to best […]
Hybrid-Disappear Here (Distinctive Records Disk192 2010) I don’t know about you but it is getting harder to find knowledgeable music enthusiasts to talk to, in what passes these days for a record shop. Once upon a time before music became a commodity, it was possible, even in major record shop chains to find experts to […]
Robert Downey Jr is well known as a talented actor, and in more recent years as someone with a troubled life, this manifested in his well publicized problems with the American legal authorities and its judicial system. Throughout the 1990’s he was arrested numerous times for drugs and alcohol related offenses, these ending in jail […]
March, 22, 2010 (today), sees Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory back together as Goldfrapp, with a new album, and what a return to form it is; albeit for some its going to be a bit of an adventure into the uncharted territory of late 70’s early 80’s American light Pomp/AOR. As with Supernature, which nodded […]
For quite some time Meridian have been keen to grab as large a slice of the market that B&O has pretty much had to its self, for many years. To that end, in the last few years a clever assault on that B&O focused“lifestyle”market has seen Meridian pursue the trendy press, promote Meridian components via […]
The Ringmat products in for review, are the Ringmat 330 Anniversary package at a retail price of £150, which has a combined thickness of 3.0mm. This is made up of a spacer mat made of a rubber type material (very light and thin) a series of spacers (made of some type of plastic) comprising of […]