Recent content by Ian AV

Just like analogue CRT TV is far surpeior to 4k OLED TV, dream on. Unless you have audio equipment approaching £10k per item, including amplification separates per item, you are unlikely to be able to tell the difference due to the finer details ultra high end items reveal.

One master down mixed to a vinyl copy from the master as stated above There was an article in this self same magazine some years ago on the subject during an interview with one of Abbey Road studios master recording engineers. Can't do better than that to know the facts. However, happy with...

Digital vinyl does not come from the CD master, the CD master is remastered for vinyl to make it suitable for vinyl 's limitations. It's compressed, highs chopped and lows converted to mono. Without it vinyl could not cope. 65dB max dynamic range opposed to CD's 96dB. That's why vinyl sounds...

Better loudspeaker bass units being stiffer and bass cavity giving rise to lower frequency output and less coloured sound. Far more flexible pre-amplifiers with staggeringly better connection options for matching, improving overall sound. Volume control with better resolution, graduated in DB...

It is highly unlikely that an adult can hear frequency to 20k. Only teenagers have any chance of that. It's just the biology of aging. 120dBA for more than an few seconds can cause permanent ear damage. 130dBA virtually guarantees it.

Be careful with high frequency hearing tests, especially with headphones. The tendency is to up the volume to hear, but that's the best way to make yourself deaf or cause serious hearing loss.

When I read the article it included the Prodigy 5. Must have been added in the 2025 update.

Not at all. I was around at the move from vinyl to CD in the eighties and it was a revelation, especially as discs went from AAD to DDD. Ink black background and open, uncompressed sound. I have never looked back. I do occasionally listen to my 1970's vinyl, but with a DBX unit to open up the...

Well, that makes three of us that don't see (hear) the emperors clothes.

Well said sir. However, until recently I was still using my 1986 Philips CD650 with 16bit DAC and I always noticed crackling during Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight crescendo. But in later years, the COAX out, rare in those days, just high end devices had it, was used to send digital direct to...

Based upon the deposits, doesn't look like water corrosion alone to me. More like saltwater or some other highly corrosive substance is involved.

It has Pre-out which perhaps could be used for this purpose, but of course would be variable unless there are settings for fixed output.

Very forward thinking, having capability to drive a sub via a pre-out. There's lots of so called high end manufacturers that don't have the forethough to provide that facility.

I think that recording the top 20 is mixed taped! CD's what are CD's, in the 1970's we didn't have CD's, not invented, let alone recordable CD media. Thankfully, no ghetto blasters either. I progressed to 'real' HiFi, with floorstanding speakers, the very first with AMT's (Air Motion...

I understand your frustrations as we do not always agree with the articles we read from any outlet. But there is no need to make a personal attack on the author to air your viewpoint. PS. I am not connected or affiliated with What HiFi.