SVS 1000 Pro Subwoofer Series Announced All Images Credit: SVS I and many of my clients have been using SVS subs for as long as I can remember. Their performance and features continue to grow providing an excellent build quality, exceptional performance, great flexibility and terrific value for money, all […]

SVS 1000 Pro Subwoofer Series Announced

Reavon UBR-X200 & UBR-X100 – Oppo Replacements? Images credit: Reavon So lets see a show of hands, how many of you were devastated when Oppo pulled out of the DVD player business? That just about looks like everybody. Well Reavon a new French brand set up as a subsidiary to Zappitti […]

Reavon UBR-X200 & UBR-X100 – Oppo Replacements?

Matt DeMerritt – Fool’s Journey – CD Review         Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 4 Stereo Imaging: 4 Image depth/perspective: 4- Overall frequency response: 4         Please see here for my comments on reviewing albums. Track List: Zero Intro Wellspring Venice […]

Matt DeMerritt – Fool’s Journey – CD Review

Optical Turntables and Laser Cartridges-Are They The Future?
DS Audio Optical Phono Cartridge Schematics Digital Stream (DS) Audio is an audio business group within Digital Stream Corporation (DSC). DSC has been in the laser optics market over 25 years is known as the provider of industrial laser optics systems in the optical disc market, in Medial testing systems, and for various laser optical […]

DS Audio Optical Phono Cartridge Schematics

The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream – Vinyl Review           Vinyl surface noise: Side A: 5; Side B: 5- Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4- Overall frequency response: 4+           Please see here for my comments on reviewing […]

The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monks Dream – Vinyl Review

Spotify Hi-Fi – An Oxymoron? Spotify has officially announced its lossless Hi-Fi streaming tier as a Premium add-on to its compressed Ogg Vorbis service. Considering the competition for HQ audio services I was a little surprised when they announced that this new premium service is to only provide “lossless CD-quality […]

Spotify Hi-Fi – An Oxymoron?

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Plastic vs Vinyl – No Contest A Personal Comment…… Many months ago my regular Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon vinyl listening sessions stopped, much to the dismay of my wife Michele. I had become annoyed by the effort involved in continually changing sides when spinning 45RPM audiophile discs and I […]

Plastic vs Vinyl – No Contest

Acoustic Sounds Series – Audiophile Jazz Reissues This is just a quick reminder to all you audiophile jazz fans, in fact any jazz fans, that you can still buy many of the vinyl Acoustic Sounds Series released in 2020 with more to follow in 2021. Seeking to offer definitive audiophile grade […]

Acoustic Sounds Series – Audiophile Jazz Reissues

Mike Scott – Collecting Things – CD Review         Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4 Overall frequency response: 5-         Please see here for my comments on reviewing albums. Track List: Sol Minor Prelude Sol […]

Mike Scott – Collecting Things – CD Review

Blue Note Records – Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by the Universal Music Group. It was established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis deriving its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. The label […]

Blue Note Records – Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series

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Craft Recordings Small Batch – Vinyl Reissues California based record label, Craft Recordings, has launched a vinyl limited-edition series of high-quality pressings. This ‘Small Batch’ series of releases is promised to be “the highest quality vinyl reissues” of some of Crafts huge catalog of legendary recordings. Rather than using the […]

Craft Recordings Small Batch – Vinyl Reissues

Zen Zadravec – Human Revolution – CD Review         Plastic – CD Surface noise: N/A Dynamic Range: 5- Stereo Imaging: 4+ Image depth/perspective: 4- Overall frequency response: 5-           Please see here for my comments on reviewing albums. Track List: The Nature Of […]

Zen Zadravec – Human Revolution – CD Review

Physical Media 2020 Update 2
Physical Media 2020 Annual Update Final Update For 2020 Physical Media Sales. So for the first half of 2020 the mid-year update on the health of the plastic physical media and other formats looked to be very close to where it was expected to be…..down about 20% on 2019, in […]

Physical Media 2020 Annual Update

Underworld: Blood Wars – 4K Blu-ray Review       Sony Pictures | 2016 R | 1hrs 31 min | Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Thriller | Horror HD | 1080P | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Native 4K | 2160P | HDR10 | Dolby Atmos | Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Aspect Ratio 2.39:1 […]

Underworld: Blood Wars – 4K Blu-ray Review