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Turntables as viewed by one of the digital generation.
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Do you know anything about turntables? Anything at all? If so you’ll be fascinated by the latest media release for Bryston. Bryston is a serious audio company making serious equipment […]
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AAA or rechargeable? A family argument.
/ Home entertainment, Home entertainment 101, Reviews, Rod’s Blog, Travel
Bose has just announced a new noise-cancelling headphone and the big news is Bluetooth and near-field communication. For my money Bose makes the best performing noise-cancellers in the biz and […]
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Rotten CDs, and how to avoid them.
/ Home entertainment, Home entertainment 101, Rod’s Blog
How many CDs have you got? If you’re a regular reader of these pages the answer is most likely a lot. And you’ll have plenty of boxed sets and multiple […]
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Doing the headshell shuffle
/ Features, Home entertainment, Home entertainment 101, Reviews
Turntables may be the current retro chic but there are plenty of decidedly unsexy things about them that one only recalls when one starts seriously mucking about with them after […]
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Your own, personal wow moment
/ Features, Home entertainment 101
There’s a compelling demonstration of how MP3 destroys sound quality on the Tidal website. Tidal is a new music library offering high definition music downloads, and while a subscription ain’t […]
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The black art of acoustics
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My first brush with the complexities of acoustics was when a friend who makes speakers, and knows all about this black art, walked around my living room clapping his hands […]
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The lowdown on headphones
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If you’ve noticed that more and more commuters are swapping their tiny earbuds for full headphones lately, well we’re following the Europeans where according to my observations anyway headphone commuters […]
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Soundbars: What you need to know
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There are two reasons television soundbars are proving so successful; one; they sound good, two; televisions don’t. Generally speaking even premium televisions have dreadful sound and it’s because it’s impossible […]
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How to get started as a DJ
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Being a nightclub DJ was harder in the analogue era; back then you had to deal with vinyl records and the problem was the turntable. Or if you were serious, […]