Expanding the Legacy
Tag: HiFi
4 Posts
Quad: Timeless Value
At the high-end, product quality and diversity do not go hand-in-hand. There are only so many ways to audiophile Nirvana. When no corners are cut, the result may be akin to a straight line. As it happens, that is also the way an audio amplifier ideally operates – a straight...
SME: Engineering Perfection
Perfection is often the outcome of fortuitous circumstance – not necessarily of a carefully traced design process. That’s how a West Sussex precision engineering company ended up as the manufacturer of the world’s best tonearms – the mechanical contraption that guides the cartridge over a vinyl record. Formed in 1946...
Tannoy: At Home in Country Manors, Concert Halls, and on Racetracks
Whenever a brand becomes so ubiquitous that its name is turned into both a verb and noun, competitors cringe and turn blue with envy. And well they may: in business since 1926, Tannoy – manufacturer of loudspeakers – admits little to no competition. For decades on end, the company’s public...
Music the Old-Fashioned Way
The news of its death was greatly exaggerated. Sales of vinyl records are spinning through the roof. According to Nielsen – an American company that monitors global media usage – sales of records are on track to exceed six million in 2014, up fully forty percent over 2013 – the year in which digital music sales, peddled by the likes of iTunes, took its first dip ever, sliding 5.7%. The only media segment growing at a higher rate than vinyl is on-demand streaming (up 42%).
