Demonstrating the complete journey from performing through recording to playback, Computer Audiophile have announced their inaugural Computer Audiophile Symposium taking place at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California.
With representatives from Meridian-Sooloos amongst others, the symposium will focus on getting the best high quality playback for your home. There will be demonstrations and discussons around the many new [...]

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The eminent sound artist Janet Cardiff is the latest Fellow to join Society of Sound. She works mainly in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller, and - according to Wikipedia - “first gained international notoriety…in 1995.”
Her latest installation, The Murder of Crows, uses one hundred B&W speakers and is at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum [...]

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There is something very unappealing about recommendation technology. Amazon’s is almost patronising in its banality and does anyone find iTunes’ Genius feature useful? I would always take suggestions from friends and colleagues far more seriously than any generated by algorithms. If sites have to use music search engines they should at the very least be [...]

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Continuing on our mission as sound evangelists we invited a group of journalists to a Sound Tasting at Abbey Road Studios. The aim was to give them an insight into how a speaker engineer (in this case, B&W Senior Development Engineer Dr John Dibb), goes about listening to music and in doing so let them [...]

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In which we’ll mainly be giving you our thoughts and insights on developments from the worlds of Hi-Fi and Home Theatre. We’ll also be reporting from the big trade shows giving you a peek into what’s going to be big in the future as well as the weird and wonderful.
 

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