Steve Harris looks at the legacy of NXT’s flatpanel speaker, which once promised to revolutionise audio replay. Did you realise the technology is now more widely available than ever before?
You’ve made homebrew cassette recordings and burned music files to CD, but what about cutting your own vinyl? Steve Harris looks at the options available from low-fi to hi-fi
Steve Harris has been thrilled by the Radio 3 revival of the BBC’s venerable Friday Night Is Music Night programme – as will anyone with a love of light music, show tunes and pre-’60s pop
The well-received Sonata turntable has been developed and refined as the Symphony. Is this Alphason’s masterpiece? Steve Harris investigates
Few brands have been more dedicated to perfection than Alphason. Although the company is now also very successful as a supplier of hi-fi furniture, and has launched an innovative loudspeaker range, the £1860 Symphony turntable remains a flagship product.
Goodmans, aided by designers including Ted Jordan and Laurie Fincham, was once a leader in loudspeaker design until OEM moves and ownership changes buried its legacy, says Steve Harris
Half a lifetime ago, I was the youthful editor of another hi-fi magazine in the UK. One day in 1979, I was visited by a senior executive from Goodmans, who explained that the firm’s next hi-fi speaker range would not be built in its own British factory, but would be bought in from Jamo of Denmark. It was a sign of the times for the company which, in the 1950s, had been ‘Europe’s largest Manufacturer and the World’s largest Exporters of High Fidelity Loudspeakers’.
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.