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A new peak daily viewing number for this blog yesterday - 1,413 views. Clearly the Bristol show generates some interest.

Pretty good sound here, clear and clean from the turntable into the new Square speakers. However, the usual caveat for many of t...

Arcam disc spinner and AV receiver into Concept 20 then Concept 40.  Good range  of tunes played, but annoyingly most of them changed to th...

Launch of PMC Twenty.26  At 6k I rather enjoyed them more than the FACT 12 which are twice the price. First time I've heard a PMC that ...

  Quad were playing their new Air Play wifi bluetooth integrated amp into electrostatics.  Lowish volume with surprisingly extended...

  The KEF blades are pictured above (the orange was a bit more vibrant than they look above), but they weren't playing when I was ...

For me, the Lyric doesnt look any better in the flesh:   Vienna Acoustics    Unfortunately, due to my being wrapped up in getti...

  It was late in the day when I got here and there was no music playing, so I didn't hang around to listen to the technical discussi...

  Turntable being played here, through some of those boxes on the table and floor (who knows which ones, another jumble of stuff wh...

One of the most musical rooms today.   I have a Linn Klimax DS/1 which shares many of the same design approaches (machined from solid c...

Including belt drive cdp. Not bad sound in here - too many lights and dials though - they can be dimmed but not turned off. The alu...

  In this room they were playing movies on a decent flat screen TV using an Anthem receiver and this tiny speakered Dali 5.1 system.  Th...

Promoting hi-res audio which is a good thing. Music wasn't really demonstrating much except how to send you off to sleep perhaps.Not su...

M8 cdp pre and power and the very cute little V90 DAC/integrated amp playing into the Spendor floorstanders below. Another lifeless and...

It must be said, I haven't really had good experiences with Focals to date.  The likes of the Diablo always sound too aggressive and wa...

Possibly best decorated room with white sheen drapes all-round and the black and white spotty rugs hiding the usual hotel room carpet chall...

If I remember correctly there was a Canor amp hiding behind this lot.  Playing from the Mac through the Antelope DAC into some Amphion floo...

Not sure about the electronics in use here (not the Marantz in the picture), but the big orchestral scale had a very harsh top end during t...

Superb! Stayed in this room for a while, and guess what?  They were happy to play a large variety of music and music brought by punters. ...

Pheonix brand Nytech playing some great music through ARC 102 speakers (the larger of the 2 shown).  Source is heavily modified Linn Akurat...

Master Innovation (magnet drive, counter-rotating, centre clamp and perimeter ring weight) turntable, Canor valve amp and Kudos Super 20 sp...

Making good sounds from Naim CDX2 and a Nait of some description into (probably the SuperNait) Response D30 which is the larger of the two ...

Orbe SE.ex with new motor and laminated base.   I've enjoyed Mitchell turntables in the past, but this was smooth, inoffensive, a b...