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Grey matter. We all have it. It’s how we use it where we differ. There’s even really dark matter, still hypothetical likely composed of as yet unknown sub-atomic particles. Its presence is implied by a variety of astrophysical observations… |
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A reader asked for my take on John Darko’s recent Snake Oil editorial. In it John posits two main definitions for viper wax… |
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JC. Depending on faith, these initials could mean a Middle-Eastern holy man; or, in the audiophile church, John Curl. With new brand Jones and Cerreta… |
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Exposure breeds preferences… |
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Put your coil in the field. Miss Elektra says so…. |
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My mole at the Korean hifi embassy in London had news… |
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NFL. It’s the NearField League. Whilst featured in these pages before, there’s far too little general noise on it. A refresher is in order particularly… |
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PS Audio announced their first-ever sub, a fat-stroke 12-incher fronting 1kW power with an 1’800W power supply called Foundry 12. App-driven DSP exploits a smartphone’s mic to perform auto room correction, manual override allows power users to create their own compensation curves. Zu’s newer 15″ Method sub runs… |
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Not an advert for the healing powers of magnetic bracelets. Rather, a testimonial on the restorative benefits of magnetic… |
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I already tested Dayton’s 18″ woofers. They require active drive of at least 1KW which delayed my project for a long time because I want it to be passive. I’ve not heard those… |
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Two recent press releases and one personal purchase netting a brief review prompted today’s feature… |
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If FiiO could introduce more than 40 products across 2025, why couldn’t China… |
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Six degrees of separation. A butterfly flaps its wings. Popular lore contains memorable turns of phrase which stress the interconnectedness of it all. Why would our hifi hobby be exempt?… |
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Box IQ. It takes no extra funds… |
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They’ve done it again. That was pretty much my first thought after learning of new brand Garlubidor which… |
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Breaking bad or even? From a reader: “Oh wow. Your FT7 coverage is superb. It dovetails with a recent conversation where I was told that… |
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The German R&B duo Milli Vanilli from the late 80s consisted of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus as lip-syncing frontmen whilst the real vocals belonged to Brad Howell, John Davis, Charles Shaw, Jodie and Linda Rocco. Before their lip-sync gig was up… |
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It’s here. Yet as John Darko and I opined in a recent podcast, for many it could be a matter of too little, too late. What am I on about?… |
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For a moment, let’s dream of the impossible: a 100wpc DC-coupled single-ended single-stage amp of 20dB voltage gain which combines a tube and transistor… |
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German reader Horst checked in. “Hello Srajan, another week, another mysterious tweak. It seems like… |
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Recent news report that Spotify’s Premium subscription tier is finally rolling out CD resolution streaming. Until now the best the service offered was ‘very high’. That’s not Swahili but Swedish for 320kbps… |
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The press release: The new research programme with the Onera Aerospace Acoustics Laboratory focuses on the study of plane wave propagation… |
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Hagen² passes on high… |
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Is mo betta? John Darko recently tackled the 1-or-2 subwoofer question for himself… |
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Controlled ringing x mass damping? In audio, dispatching mechanical noise follows three main routes… |
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The devil lives in the details, cleanliness is next to God. Confused yet? Then riddle me this… |
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Baby killer! That’s not what my Zoom caller said. But she might as well have. She informed me that a friend of hers had… |
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In upscale wrist watches, complications are cause célèbre and coin cramps. The model that put Swiss watch brand Urwerk on the map was the 103, a wandering hour complication with… |
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You’ll have learnt of the pincer attack in history class. Rather less bloody is its application in hifi… |
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The emailer was Simone, my contributor in Italy. He’d been contacted by Dragan Solaja to review his new 300B amp. The question was… |
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What comes beyond double dipping? I don’t know… |
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Where does the high in high-end end?… |
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I thought I’d said what I had to say… |
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In the wake of this year’s Munich HighEnd show, Berlin colleague John Darko… |
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Drive-by shooting the MOC YouTube style… |
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The Munich Marriott has for years already hosted the alternate Hifi Deluxe show… |
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Like any other bloke and blokine not attending Munich’s HighEnd show, I canvassed sundry online reports… |
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Raidho subs. Applying 10µm diamond coats to ceramic 8″ and 10″ drivers… |
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Welcome to sub.urbia? If that’s where we want to live… |
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Monaco. It’s what Italians call Munich. It suggests palm trees, sun and luxury yachts… |
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Each year our industry experiences a morning-after moment. It comes after the… |
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Premium speaker cabinets used to come from Denmark. Today some of the geometrically most complex cabs come from China… |
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Talking to a US maker the other day, I learnt that their business is down 50%. This is not due to tariffs levelled on parts making their product more expensive. It’s primarily due to buyers… |
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Synchronicity is when the same idea occurs to two people in two different countries… |
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As first reported by my Berlin colleague Ralph Werner of fairaudio.de, ATE of Germany will expand their RMD for Ring Mode Driver tech from automotive and aerospace applications to our high-end space… |
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After the just concluded Axpona show, Stereophile published a video of PS Audio’s new product reveal. In it a visitor asks… |
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The term Ripole is short for Axel Ridthaler dipole as the man who patented… |
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Despite ever-mounting evidence to the contrary, it’s what in some minds the four letters SMPS… |
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To be honest. I don't know about you. Whenever someone prefaces a sentence with these three words, I automatically wonder. Was everything they said until then untrue? It reminds me of a wealthy friend… |
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Say Cees, please? You know of course that I’m low profile at the moment. But every now and then I still feel the need to do some R&D. Writing this email was actually triggered by … |
