Steve Harris

Steve Harris  |  Nov 28, 2024  |  0 comments
Steve Harris talks to the founders of a new global jazz Internet radio platform promising to focus on music recorded in the last year or so while 'veering away from the straight and narrow'

Whenever the BBC makes changes to the sacred rituals of Radio 3, howls of protest follow. New scheduling introduced in February did bring the usual cries of 'dumbing down'. Personally, the changes didn't bother me very much because I'd got so much into the habit of time-shifting my radio listening.

Steve Harris  |  Nov 25, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Fred Hersch, Shabaka, The Jazz Defenders, and Julius Rodriguez
Steve Harris  |  Nov 15, 2024  |  0 comments
Walk into any hi-fi show and you'll spot towering horn-loaded loudspeakers, says Steve Harris, but 'big' speakers in the UK have typically gone down another route, as he explains...

Not so long ago the idea of a hi-fi system costing a million pounds would have raised eyebrows and hackles. Such systems might exist, we thought, but only in the secret hideaways of a few eccentric billionaires. But today you can have a good chance of hearing a million-pound sound just by walking in to a hi-fi show.

Steve Harris  |  Oct 29, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund, Tim Garland, Christian Mcbride & Edgar Meyer, and Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi
Steve Harris  |  Oct 21, 2024  |  0 comments
With recent data suggesting the vinyl revival is beng solely spearheaded by Taylor Swift, plus environmental concerns about LP production, Steve Harris wonders where it goes next

How much longer can it last? In America, as here, vinyl sales have been growing year on year for nearly two decades. But a 2022 slowdown in growth set some commentators suggesting that the vinyl boom could soon be over.

Christopher Breunig,  |  Oct 08, 2024  |  0 comments
hfnvintageNaim Audio at last offers a CD player, but how does the CDS compare with its rival from Linn, wonder Christopher Breunig and Steve Harris

Apr 1992

My patience was put to the test with the Naim CDS. As I unpacked the two units and coupled them together I experienced a flush of old 'brand loyalty'. Since the days of the original 12S preamp and NAP160 power amp, my meetings with company founder Julian Vereker had been cordial and I had spent several pleasurable years with my NAP250. My frustration came with the waiting time for the player to warm up before listening began.

Steve Harris  |  Sep 26, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Empirical, Alice Coltrane, The Jazzanians, and Julian Lage
Steve Harris  |  Sep 09, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Melissa Aldana, Charlie Payne Quartet, John Surman, and The Clark Tracey Quintet
Steve Harris  |  Aug 07, 2024  |  0 comments
The BBC isn’t just a creator of content – since the early days of hi-fi it’s collected and archived commercial music. But has its operation become too big to continue, wonders Steve Harris

When you’ve got a million records, some of them might have to go. In January the BBC began a series of online auctions to dispose of unwanted vinyl from its fabled record library. In a tweet, Omega Auctions said it had spent a productive few days clearing out thousands of LPs from the BBC’s archive. You wonder whether this was just another job to them, or whether they thought they’d died and gone to heaven.

Steve Harris  |  Jul 28, 2024  |  0 comments
This month we review: Charles Lloyd, John Etheridge, Liv Andrea, and Radhika de Saram

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