Embarrassed Author’s Note: If you’re a follower of my blog (thank you), or even if you’ve just happened upon this post accidentally (also, thank you), you might find it odd that this, Part 3 of the Canon Audio story, has appeared some considerable time after Part 5. This is because Part 3 mysteriously became lost […]
Stratton Acoustics is a new UK based high-end consumer audio company, and the Elypsis 1512 is our first product.
My work reviewing nearfield monitors for Sound On Sound occasionally provokes thoughts that are perhaps a little too far off-piste for the relatively simple needs of a magazine review, and my recent review of the newly introduced Neumann KH150 was prime example. I gave the KH150 a very positive review in the magazine, but having […]
Kii Audio, manufacturer of the Kii Three/BXT monitors that I reviewed in Sound On Sound here and here, has recently moved from its original home in Apeldoorn, Netherlands to a new base just over the border in rural western Germany. I was lucky enough to be invited to an open house event at the new […]
Now, I appreciate that I’m describing a niche category within a niche category, but among audiophiles, the BBC LS3/5A is perhaps the most widely celebrated loudspeaker. And now I’m about to perpetuate the hullabaloo by blogging about it for a second time (my first Music & Miscellany post was entitled, Not The LS3/5A – you […]
A couple of my favourite bands over the last decade have been Shearwater and Loma, and both have Jonathan Meiburg at their core. But Jonathan is more than just a unique and gifted songwriter and musician, because along with his career in music he’s very active in the field of evolutionary zoology, with a particular […]
The third curious piece of music to arise from my attempt to create a piece each month is even later than the second. But better late than cliché, eh? This piece is entitled, ‘January (indifference)’ and the name reveals firstly that I began working on the piece some four months ago, and secondly that, in […]
Yes, I know it’s February, but I was remiss late last year in not posting the second instalment of my Music Month project to compose and record a finished piece of curious music every month. So here is November, in, err February. November is based on a double-bass melody (if that’s not too ambitious a […]
For years, well decades really, I’ve occasionally spent time in metaphorically darkened rooms trying to come up with curious pieces of music. The pieces have invariably remained unfinished (partly because, with the almost unlimited opportunities provided by contemporary music tech, believing something to be finished is all but impossible). And, along with never finishing a […]
Sound On Sound, the audio magazine that I regularly write for, includes a monthly column called, ‘Why I Love….’ and back in August 2019 I wrote a piece for the column entitled, “Why I Love…Fretless Bass’. The piece resulted in quite a bit of feedback and comment at the time, but as I know not […]
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