A personal best tracks of 2008
It’s the time of year where journalists and bloggers get all retrospective and reflect on a year in music. As a humble B&W employee, with a vested interested in music… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 12 Dec 2008
Categories: Top 10 playlists
Tags: albums of the year, bowers & wilkins, Discussing sound quality, Society of Sound albums, Top 10 playlists
A class in sonic appreciation
I blogged earlier about the Deep Listening roundtable conference in New York. You can now watch it here. Chaired by Greg Calbi, the mastering engineer at legendary Sterling Sound, NY… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008
Categories: Discussing sound quality
Tags: audiophile, Discussing sound quality, Greg Calbi, Sterling Sound
Exclusive live Dengue Fever event
We were very lucky to be able to attend an invitation-only evening at Real World Studios last week along with some Society of Sound members who had won invites. After… Read more
Posted on: Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008
Categories: Live music
Tags: Dengue Fever, Live music, Peter Gabriel, Real World Studios, Society of Sound albums
Choosing the right music for the B&W Zeppelin and Apple iTouch
Christmas is almost upon us, and as usual we’re all planning our festive shopping, or out buying things on a whim. In order to get people as excited about the… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 1 Dec 2008
Categories: Music
Tags: Apple iPod touch, Benjamin Grosvenor, lossless music, New music, Society of Sound albums, Zeppelin ipod dock
Is Blu-Ray the saviour of high-quality stereo?
It’s been known for a while that Neil Young’s long-awaited Archives is going to be released on Blu-ray. But now that Amazon in the US is taking pre-release orders it… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008
Categories: Talking about formats
Tags: blu-ray, high quality sound, Neil Young, new formats, SACD
Preparing for Skellig – Tod Machover (MIT Professor and Society of Sound Fellow)
I’m in Newcastle-on-Tyne right now, in the final stage of rehearsals for my Skellig opera which premieres here at the Sage Gateshead next Monday and runs from November 24-29. Newcastle… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008
Categories: New music
Tags: MIT, new opera, Sage Gateshead, Skellig, Tod Machover
Young Musician of the Year Finalist exclusive recording
We were looking for a classical artist to be represented in our B&W Music Club and a senior engineer at Abbey Road suggested young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Having won the… Read more
Posted on: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2008
Categories: New music
Tags: Benjamin Grosvenor, Society of Sound albums, Yehudi Menuhin School, Young Musician of the Year
Tod Machover – The Future of Music
Tod Machover: cutting edge composer, a Professor of Music and Media at MIT’s renowned Media Lab and a Fellow of B&W’s Society of Sound. Tod is in the UK in… Read more
Posted on: Tuesday, 4 Nov 2008
Categories: New music
Tags: MIT, Sage Gateshead, Skellig, Society of Sound albums, Tod Machover
Equal rights for Audiophiles!
Audiophiles get a bad press. Even the word conjures up images of old men in tweed, listening to LPs of train sound effects on turntables that pre-date the invention of… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 6 Oct 2008
Categories: Discussing sound quality
Tags: audiophiles, Discussing sound quality, Steve Guttenberg, vinyl
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