News

  • Wilson Audio Alexx is V
    Mon, 29/03/2021
    The latest addition to Wilson Audio’s collection is the 161cm tall Alexx V, which sits just below the flagship Chronosonic models in the company’s extensive range of high end loudspeakers. Featuring an ‘open gantry’ design devised for the Chronosonic project to support the three enclosures for mid and high frequency drivers, and offering increased structural rigidity and set-up flexibility.read more
  • Wilson Benesch low end theory
    Thu, 25/03/2021
    In the summer of 2021, Wilson Benesch will launch its next generation of infrasonic generator technologies (or subwoofers). Developed in Sheffield, England, the new Torus Series is based on the on the award- winning Torus design that precedes it with the aim of meeting the challenge presented by timpani, kick drums, kettle drums, musical instruments that create low frequency sound with attack and dynamics that hit you in the chest. read more

How To

  • The virtual session
    Thu, 07/01/2021
    In my younger days I would do it once or twice a week, then when I moved out of town it went down to once a month, and come lockdown listening to music with friends became a virtual affair (what else did you think I was talking about?).read more

Latest Reviews

  • Sonus faber Maxima Amator
    Mon, 29/03/2021
    Italian speaker makers have always had a thing for solid walnut, the stuff must grow on trees over there, and it certainly makes for a beautiful and extremely solid cabinet, as a rule it’s used on standmounts but for the first time in its extensive history Sonus faber have built a floorstander from this lovely wood. read more

Show Report

  • The Bristol Show 2020 pt.2
    February, 2020
    Rajiv Dave (top) of Chord Electronics explained a little more about the 2go portable streamer (£995) and 2yu DAC adaptor (£450) that were released just before the show. Dave formally worked with the BBC on their digital tech in the nineties,... read more

Features

  • Tim de Paravicini
    Mon, 21/12/2020
    The audio world lost one of its leading lights last week when my dear old friend Tim de Paravicini succumbed to the liver cancer that he had been fighting for several months (with great good humour and optimism). Few who met Tim will forget his startlingly larger-than-life personality and the sheer vigour with which he attacked any problem from audio electronics design (his 'day job') to lawnmower repairs to reading a badly typeset Christmas menu in poor light.