What could be more fun (and enlightening) than to hear me talk about loudspeaker design and technology for forty minutes? You can’t think of anything can you? Thought as much. So with the help of the brilliant Julian Rogers I did a podcast for Sound On Sound, the world’s best audio recording and production magazine. […]
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 […]
In the nearfield monitor reviews I write for Sound On Sound I sometimes find myself explaining that the monitors in question are frighteningly expensive and for the majority of readers will probably remain, “an aspiration rather than a realistic option”, or some other comfortable phrase intended to soften the sad news that most of us […]
There’s a question that comes up regularly in music recording magazines and on pro-audio forums, usually asked by less experienced musicians or recording engineers. It goes, “can I use hi-fi speakers for monitoring?” Sometimes it takes a different form; “what’s the difference between a hi-fi speaker and a professional monitor?”, but that question is really a […]
