CEDIA 2013 Best Integrated Home Winner with Bowers & Wilkins speakers

CEDIA 2013 Best Integrated Home winner with Bowers & Wilkins speakers

At this year’s CEDIA 2013 Awards, the Best Integrated Home (£100,000 – £250,000) category was won by Grahams Hi-Fi using Bowers & Wilkins CCM683 ceiling speakers throughout. Once again, we… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 25 Jul 2013
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Classic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City”

It is difficult to choose “the best” Stevie Wonder album, as his classic canon of work from the seventies has been an indelible score to many of our lives. After… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 25 Jul 2013
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Bowers & Wilkins and Maserati: Seven Notes

Bowers & Wilkins and Maserati: A partnership in sound

Discover the shared manufacturing ethos of Bowers & Wilkins and Maserati, and how this joint passion comes together in the Seven Notes project. Maserati and Bowers & Wilkins share a… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 22 Jul 2013
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Maps – Top 10 favourite headphone tracks

Maps’ new album Vicissitude, all skittering electronics and dreamy pop songs, is this month’s featured album on Society of Sound. We asked the man behind the album, James Chapman, which tracks… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 22 Jul 2013
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Gilles Peterson

Seven Notes: Gilles Peterson’s top 10

It’s fitting that one of London’s favourite adopted DJ’s, Gilles Peterson, DJ’ed at the final Seven Notes show in Clerkenwell. From his Talkin’ Loud and Acid Jazz  labels to his… Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 17 Jul 2013
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Graham Hi-Fi Recommends Aaron Neville

Music for your speakers: Aaron Neville’s Warm Your Heart

Not only do they sell the world’s finest hi-fi, but Graham’s Hi-Fi shop in Islington, London also stocks a carefully chosen selection of CDs and vinyl. So who better to… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 15 Jul 2013
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James ‘Maps’ Chapman on recording his album, Vicissitude

To write Vicissitude, James Chapman, aka Maps, returned to his home in Northamptonshire, the place where debut album We Can Create was recorded in its entirety on 16 track –… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 15 Jul 2013
Categories: Music

Amos Lee

Watch: Exclusive Amos Lee Sound Session

Last month Amos Lee performed an intimate VIP-only sound session at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. His set featured songs from his upcoming release ‘Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song‘out… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 11 Jul 2013
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Watch: James Mallinson on recording opera live with the LSO

Grammy award-winning producer James Mallinson reveals the intricacies behind recording an opera live, with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra. “Recording opera in concert is the only way… Read more

Posted on: Monday, 8 Jul 2013
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Listen and you'll see, Music, Sound recording
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