SOME OF THE MUSIC THAT PARTED THE CLOUDS IN 2021 Pt 4(b)
At the end of our previous instalment, I mentioned that Uncut magazine had devoted one of their recent cover-mounted CDs to what they called, with clear reference to ‘The Old, Weird America’, Greil Marcus’s marvellous [...]
BLUETOOTH AMPLIFIER/DAC / FIIO BTR3K
Audio Input Bluetooth 5.0 Supported Codecs AAC, SBC, aptX, aptX Low Latency, aptX HD, LDAC and LHDC Bluetooth chip Qualcomm CR8675 DAC 2 x AK4377A Frequency Response 20 – 20 kHz (aptX connection), 20 – [...]
HEADPHONES / HIFIMAN
HIFIMAN, a leader in high fidelity personal audio, has announced the availability of a long-anticipated update of one of its most popular headphones – the Edition XS. Like the original Edition X, which debuted in [...]
EARPHONES / YAMAHA TW-E3B
Type Truly Wireless Earphones Driver Dynamic / 6.0 mm Frequency response 20 Hz – 20 kHz Dimensions (case) 76 mm x 34 mm x 34 mm (LxHxW) Weight 6.3 g each Connection Bluetooth V5 Features [...]
HEADPHONES / YAMAHA YH-E500A
Headphone Type On-Ear Driver Dynamic / 40 mm Frequency response 20 Hz -- 20 kHz Line Input 3.5 mm stereo mini (Driver Direct) Weight 200 g Bluetooth Version Bluetooth V5.0 Supported Codecs SBC, AAC, Qualcomm [...]
SOME OF THE MUSIC THAT PARTED THE CLOUDS IN 2021 Pt 4(a)
In case anybody is missing the point of writing about music from last year so far into this one, it is, simply, that there is always so much good music around, in so many styles [...]
Tivoli Audio Model One BT
BLUETOOTH RADIOS / TIVOLI AUDIO MODEL ONE BT AM/FM RADIO VITAL STATS Type AM/FM analogue mono table radio with Bluetooth wireless technology Driver 1x 76.2 mm (3-inch) full-range driver Power Output 25 watts [...]
SOUNDBARS/YAMAHA YAS-408
VITAL STATS Drivers 4x 4.6 cm woofers, 2x 2.5 cm tweeters (Centre Unit), 1x 16 cm cone woofer (subwoofer unit). Output Power 200 watts total power (100 watts Centre, 100 watts Subwoofer). Inputs/Outputs 1x HDMI [...]
Richard Haslop: SOME OF THE MUSIC THAT PARTED THE CLOUDS IN 2021 – Pt 3
Some may have noticed the preponderance of female artists in the previous episode of the music that parted my clouds in 2021. I’ll leave it to others to decide whether this was just me or [...]
Richard Haslop: SOME OF THE MUSIC THAT PARTED THE CLOUDS IN 2021 – Pt 2
Richard Thompson tells a story that may be apocryphal about meeting the Queen when he collected his OBE in 2011. “And what it is that you do?” she is reported to have asked. “I’m a [...]
Richard Haslop: SOME OF THE MUSIC THAT PARTED THE CLOUDS IN 2021 – Pt 1
This piece could just as easily have been called, with appropriate credit to Daniel Defoe, ‘A Journal Of The Musical Plague Year’. The previous year had been too weird and confusing to really get a [...]