An interview with Bugge Wesseltoft At the end of November this year, I was honoured, and privileged to spend more than an hour with one of Europe’s most uniquely prolific jazz piano players, Bugge Wesseltoft. His albums have been reviewed extensively over the past few years in The Ear, and his latest release has become […]
Michell Audio MD Jonathan Nye in conversation with The Ear As Michell Audio launches its new generation of turntables, Jonathan Nye discusses the evolution of design, the science of isolation, and what lies ahead for the iconic British brand. The Ear (TE): Were you in audio before you joined Michell? Jonathan Nye (JN): I worked […]
PMC prophecy speaker range interview PMC launched the prophecy range of loudspeakers at the Bristol Show in February, we took the opportunity to talk to co-CEO Oliver Thomas about the range in an attempt to find out more about the thinking behind it. We have reviewed the prophecy5 in the meantime and were very impressed […]
Townshend Rock II turntable For this review of a turntable that has not been in production for a number of years I obtained two Townshend Rock turntables. The first was supplied by Townshend and was a stock Rock II with Excalibur tonearm, with no modifications, save for a repaint in Stratocaster style candy apple red […]
Gathered for your listening pleasure are a few tracks that Reuben and I have been enjoying over the last year. He has stuck to releases from this period while I have included pieces that I have discovered or re-discovered throughout the year and which offer both decent sound quality and great music. Check them out […]
Avid Reference system Studio AV is a select retailer in a select position within Chobham, Surrey. This is a modern high end specialist that’s not on the high street but in the owner’s substantial house which makes it a luxurious but comfortable place to enjoy fine sounding systems from a collection of carefully chosen brands. […]
Lowther Hegeman horn speakers John Howes has been involved with audio electronics all of his life, his father was a radio and television engineer and he followed in those footsteps but his passion has always been valve or tube amplifiers. As far back as the sixties he was building valve electronics and that enthusiasm lead […]
Triangle Manufacture Electroacoustique Soissons is an hour and a half north east of Paris and seems like a quiet place, it has two cathedrals and one of them still has a roof on, but otherwise it is a typical small French town. But there is plenty going on behind the quiet facades not least loudspeaker […]
Coherent Systems Not your average hi-fi retailer would be an understated way to describe Coherent Systems in Gerrards Cross just outside the M25 in Buckinghamshire. Owner Tony Sallis has to be the most technically capable engineer selling audio equipment in the country, his workshop contains more test and measurement equipment than many electronics manufacturers in […]
Trevor Butler visits International Noise Day at the Vienna Institute Noise is around us pretty much all the time, at different levels and across different frequencies. But how much is good for us? And should we take more care of our hearing. These are questions addressed every year on International Noise Day at the Vienna […]
Gentle giant and hi-fi guru Paul Messenger was my mentor and the man that got me into this game when he was draughted in to edit Hi-Fi Choice magazine in 1987. That was the year the title changed from being a quarterly A5 publication to a monthly A4 magazine, Paul handled the transition seamlessly because […]
Deutsches Schallplattenmuseum, Nortorf A record collection totalling 180,000 LPs and 78s, plus the history of audio under one roof comprises a most unusual German record museum. The German depository of records and recording began life as part of Nortorf town’s museum in Schleswig-Holstein. When that building had to be demolished those behind the incredible collection […]