Richard is an avid listener of all things musical. From the eclectic to the downright insane if it is interesting or odd, the chances are RH has heard of and has an opinion on it...
Posts by Richard Haslop
Editorial November 2025
November 2025 The most recent MAX live event was an eye opener as we had some new friends attend with SPL cars. Sound Pressure Level competition is about, as you might guess, the loudest car [...]
RETURNING TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
It was around 1983 in Johannesburg. As a university student, I had a standard Japanese rack system. It wasn’t perfect but it was the best I could afford at the time. Across the street from [...]
AI and the Future of Home Control in CI
With Mike Jbara, VP of Lenbrook Media Group, and Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Josh.ai. For decades, home control has relied on structured programming, custom interfaces, and painstaking configuration. As artificial intelligence moves into the custom [...]
ITHALANOS HA-1 HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER
Frequency response 8 Hz – 60 kHz (-0.5 dB) Inputs Amphenol gold-plated, turned solid brass female RCA connectors Outputs Neutrik locking 6.3 mm stereo headphone jack Tubes Input tube 6SN7 / Output tube 6080. (Input [...]
WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL WITH VINYL?
For many years, many years ago, vinyl was the only format available to the masses. We all had turntables, often as part of rack systems. Some of us got more serious and ventured into separates. [...]
CINEMA ARCHITECTS OPEN DAY, SATURDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2025 – THE VINYL OFFERING!
If you are planning on visiting us at our open day on 15 November 2025, we welcome you in advance. We would like to give a bit of background and why this is an important [...]
LOCAL FOCUS: EAR CANDY RECORDS
Ear Candy Records was born six years ago, stemming from a lifelong love of music. I am Werner Schulze and I have been collecting music, especially vinyl records, since 1982. Both my parents were always [...]
LOCAL FOCUS: ANDRIES OBERHOLZER CONSULTING
My business specialises primarily in web development, but from this basis we have become more involved in digital marketing on social media platforms, systems development, as well as business consultation. I have been involved in [...]
Editorial October 2025
October 2025 Having spent a day listening to high end car audio using streaming services as a source and DSP to create a sound field in a small space (the car) whilst doing so in [...]
JABRA EVOLVE 2 55 AND 2 65 FLEX HEADSETS
Jabra Evolve 2 55 Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Yes Speaker size 28 mm Speaker max input power 30 mW Speaker frequency range 20 Hz – 20 000 Hz Speaker bandwidth (music mode) 20 Hz – [...]
MAX live event #2
The second Musical Accuracy eXperience, or Musical Accuracy eXcellence (we're not sure which one works best yet but both end up as MAX) was held 19 October 2025 at Auto24 in Roodepoort. A fantastic venue [...]