if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

Room resonances are a real thing, but... a) the wavelength has to match the room dimension almost exactly. While it looks as though there a...

You will wind up learning a bunch of numbers by heart: The sensitivity of your speakers in dB / m at 1 watt  The diameter of your speakers...

My hi-fi journey began when I realised that some music seemed to be coming from a corner on the upper right hand wall rather than from betwe...

So for some reason, I turned up the little Rel T-Zero while playing some Dvorak the other night. It's usually on 9:00 - 10:00 for jazz, ...

There's more to the hi-fi listening experience than the sound and the gear and sources that produce it. Everyone talks about "the...

Every now and then I get the feeling that I just don't take music seriously enough if I don't have Roon, and I don't take photog...

I love the sound of my H120, and of the rest of the system. Even now, I will still look up and think by heck that sounds good . In the same ...

Welcome to the "small rooms" owners' club. Once again, pro sound treatment methods (bass traps, reflectors, absorbers and so...

Room treatment is mostly about room modes and reflections. (Sound-proofing is taken to be out-of-scope since it needs building work.) Room ...

Steve Gutenberg says we should try room treatments. John Darko has those GiK boards all over the place. I'm starting to feel I'm not...

Where are the drums in your audiophile soundstage? They're in the middle. Which is odd, because in the studio, the drummer is usually ...

A pair of Meze Empyrean will cost around £2,800. The Sennheiser HD800S cost around £1,400. Audiophiles. They must be bonkers. Here's ...

I am assured that Pro-Ject make excellent turntables. Lots of hi-fi stores seem to agree, since some stock little else. I bought a white T...

Am I the only person who wonders why anyone would pay hi-fi prices for a streaming device when there are iPads? More to the point, when the...

It's low-fi if the recording is a test of your kit. As in I never heard the guitar part before . It's entry-level hi-fi if you say ...

If you've got your speakers, room and listening position set up, the speakers should disappear. The music should be coming from the spac...

My current head-fi is a pair of Sennheiser HD650s I bought in 2014. Before that I had a pair of HD580's. There's a 2019 edition of t...

Entry-level: an analogue-only Marantz PM6003 amp with a Marantz CD6005 CD player (and hence a DAC), a Sonos Connect (and hence another DAC),...

I must have played one too many Spotify playlists. I got tired of Spotify. I've done Tidal. So I tried Qobuz. OMG! 96kHz streaming....

CD? Streaming? Vinyl? FM / AM Radio? Internet Radio? Lossy rips? Losless rips? Live? Which is best? Can CDs be replaced by streaming? Do rea...