What’s offered? Amazon launched its new Amazon Music HD/UHD service recently which adds a lossless music tier to its existing lossy service, Amazon Music. It promises up to 50 million tracks in what it calls HD music. A bit misleading as this is not Hi-res but CD quality with a bit depth of 16 bits, […] More
In my compelling tell all and eye catching post titled ‘The F*ck*d up nature of The Audiophile Audio Industry’ I told my story of how, many HiFi firms, whose products I reviewed, would not help with a contribution to this site. Despite evidencing sales, per people contacting me afterwards to tell me they bought based […] More
Reference quality floor-standers PMC Fact 8 and 12 models have been a premium stalwart in the range for some time. Some customers were preferring the twenty5 range even with ‘Fact’ being the premium offering, so this is welcome news. So to the new PMC Fact 8 and Fact 12 signature models… These speakers have been […] More
Phono Pre amp No the Qutest from Chord Electronics has not developed a disease! – this is a new Chord Electronics product coming out of Munich High-End 2019 – the Chord Electronics Huei. Pronounced Huey, with no common linguistics to ‘Huawei’, the problematic Chinese firm, it’s a new phono stage pre-amp in a miniature Chord […] More
An article from Alpha Audio’s website (Netherlands) – which I have translated into English and placed comments in italics with my initials where the ‘Google Translate’ translation is not clear. The British audio platform The 13th Note has announced it is stopping. In a series of background articles it becomes clear what the main reason […] More