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Rotten CDs, and how to avoid them.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, […]
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Repair or replace: That is the question
One of our household once had a problem with a four-month-old iPhone. Suddenly it would no longer connect with WiFi. She took it to the Apple shop and 15 minutes […]
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How to make great coffee without the effort
My wife Sheryl and I have just come home from Europe and the thing that rocked us to our socks was that coffee in Paris is so dreadful. I raised […]