Monthly Archives: November 2013
Pioneer licenses its brand for $100 Walmart tablet
Kuro fanbois look away now – your day’s about to get a whole lot worse The recent news that Pioneer TVs are about to reappear in European shops had the Kuro faithful elated – well, for a moment, anyway – before their hopes were dashed: all that’s going to be Pioneer about the new TVs, […]
Linn offers four weeks of free high-resolution music for Christmas
Teaser track from Handel’s Messiah already online, then three-track Studio Master download kicks off festive campaign on December 1 Whether you’re a fan of high-resolution music or not yet sure what all the fuss is about, Linn is giving you the chance to explore further with its 24-bits of Christmas promotion, offering a free Studio […]
REVIEW: Meridian Prime Headphone Amplifier – so much more than the name suggests
The new headphone amp from Meridian is its most ambitious personal audio product so far, with analogue and digital inputs, processing to get the sound out of your head and the ability to be used as a preamp And then there were three: on the heels of Meridian’s Explorer DAC/headphone amp and recently-launched Director DAC […]
So is Pure Audio Blu-ray the solution to hi-res music format bafflement?
A new release of one of the most celebrated classical recordings – Allegri’s Miserere by The Tallis Scholars – is designed to broaden the appeal of high-resolution surround sound The Tallis Scholars (picture: Eric Richmond) The brave new world of high-resolution audio is a minefield for the unwary traveller, or indeed the under-informed would-be guide. […]
REVIEW: NEAT Motive SX1 – the great big little speakers
Smaller than you might think, NEAT’s latest Motive SX1 speakers deliver an unmissably thrilling ride As floorstanding speakers go, the new NEAT Motive SX1 is small. Seriously small, as in standing well under 100cm tall and with a slimline front baffle, meaning a pair take up considerably less front-room real-estate than most standmounted designs. Coming […]
WD boosts its My Cloud offering with four-bay NAS solution
My Cloud EX4 designed for ‘ultimate reliability’, offers up to 16TB of storage To say I’m quite a fan of Western Digital’s WD Red hard drives is something of an understatement: I’m now running two NAS units using six of drives – a four-bay as a main server, a two-bay as a backup – and […]
Pure’s new Deutsche Grammophon radio – who you callin’ yeller?
I don’t usually go a bundle on ‘special edition’ audio products – they’re pretty much fashion-driven, and as such tend to go out of style faster than things that go out of fashion very quickly. There have been some horrors pushed out onto the market over the years, including Ferrari-branded headphones looking like industrial […]
Pioneer’s getting back into the TV business – well, almost…
The announcement, reported in trade magazine ERT, that Pioneer TVs will soon be back in Dixons stores, could just show the way forward for the big Japanese names Pioneer was a – umm – pioneer for the Japanese TV business when it launched its Kuro range back in the Spring of 2007, it embarked on […]
REVIEW: Peachtree Audio nova125 – reinventing the integrated amplifier
From time to time, you have to challenge your preconceptions of what constitutes ‘serious hi-fi’: fortunately, the Peachtree Audio nova125 is everything a ‘normal’ amplifier isn’t It’s mainly designed for use with digital sources, yet has a valve in its preamp stage; it’s capable of a hefty 125W per channel output, yet comes wrapped – […]
Amidst all the weeping and wailing about the end of plasma, are we missing the bigger picture?
The reaction to the announcement that Panasonic is shutting down plasma panel production, and thus ending its line of plasma TVs by March next year, has been extraordinary. Amidst the editorials – some even exhorting us to sob like some Victorian cortege mourner, donning our best deepest ever blacks and joining the mute procession down […]
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