More in Rod’s Blog
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Of Brexit, slavery, and the appalling acoustics of the British House of Commons
Chances are that you, as a reader of this website, are interested in the black art of acoustics. And it’s pretty certain that you know more about acoustics than the […]
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Symphonic warning.
The current model Subaru Outback enrages me. If this column sounds like it could become tiresome because it’s about cars and not audio, stick with me; It’s actually about a […]
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High Fidelity lobster
I have a number of difficulties with the Gamut Hi Fi Lobster Chair and none of them involve it looking like a lobster. Being a pedant, my major difficulty is […]
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Yuletide stitch ups – or what to watch for when buying hi fi.
It’s the season to be jolly. And there are certain salespeople out there who get their jollies by stitching their customers up. I thought I’d heard them all and then […]
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At last… the truth about second-hand violins.
Maybe you don’t know much about violins, but I’m willing to bet a dollar you know enough about them to answer the following two questions. Question one: What’s the most […]
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Stop it! Or you’ll go blind!
Young people get it so easy. These days you have to be really, really unlucky to go blind whereas when we were kids there were dozens and dozens of things […]
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Are camera phones killing photography?
I’ve never had much time for camera phones. It takes almost ten seconds to get mine up and operating by which time the moment’s usually gone. The image quality deteriorates […]
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Call that a television? This is a television.
It’s pretty scary when you look down a pricelist for televisions and find one for 662,000 euros, or somewhere vaguely north of a million bucks. What’s even scarier is finding […]
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If you love the English language you’ll love this story.
“Hundreds of vehicle’s to choose from.” If you can’t spot the two grammatical errors in that sentence don’t open a car yard anytime soon. According to the specialist American auto […]