Editorial July 2023
July 2023 One of my favourite things is to attend hi-fi shows. Call them what you will it is a great way to see and hear much of what is available to we lucky few [...]
Editorial June 2023
June 2023 Halfway through the year and things in the country could be looking worse, I suppose. Loadshedding is wrecking my kit. My amps mainly stay on all the time - OK - in current [...]
Dual CS329 Automatic Turntable
VITAL STATS Model CS 329 Drive Belt, 33/45 rpm speed settings Wow and flutter < ±0,12 % (DIN WTD) Pickup AudioTechnica AT91 Outputs RCA Phono/Line (switchable) Platter Aluminium, 297 mm diameter, 667g Bearing Hardened steel [...]
Editorial May 2023
May 2023 'sup?! Yes. We are adding some motoring to our site - the shock and horror has been deafening. Still, we are nothing if not thick skinned and with the idea of cost consolidations [...]
Editorial April 2023
April 2023 It is no Fool's Joke. I couldn't help but wonder to myself as I engaged in an ever diminishing spiral of infinitely decaying customer (lack of) service with Samsung recently how it is [...]
GMI BD-A1500 4k Bluray Player
VITAL STATS Model GMI Audio DAC Engines Mediatek MTK8581 Soc, Quad-core ARM Cortex A53 CPU Cluster, ARM Mali-T860 MP2 GPU Audio DAC DSD64/128, Multi channel DSD64, 192 kHz/24-bit PCM and down Inputs Ethernet, USB 2.0 [...]
GMI BD-A1500 4k Bluray Player Unboxing
This is a new kid on the block. Very new. So new in fact that this is our first encounter with the brand. It's very exciting and we'll be sure to fill you in on [...]
Editorial March 2023
March 2023 The pace of life continues to astound. There is much happening and you might have noticed we are dipping our toes into the world of video via YouTube, since, well, this is the [...]
Editorial February 2023
February 2023 Happy Valentine's day to all! Got me to thinking about the romance of it all - what could be better than a glass of good wine, a good meal in your tum tum [...]
Editorial January 2023
January 2023 We managed to avoid some Boney M, heavens be praised. But on holiday we didn't avoid Jesse Clegg who played the last of his tour dates at, of all places, the Pig & [...]
The Culture of Music & the Internet
There have been some big sea changes in technology's influence on music and our interaction with it. Think about vinyl - invented in the '20s, somewhat improved over the years, replaced almost entirely with the [...]
The Critical Sessions Microphones and Sound Energy
This one is a doozy! Are we missing something we can't measure when we listen? Is it that that separates systems systemically? After all, surely what is lost at the recording stage cannot be created... [...]