If you were making a check list for a modern compact near field monitor – what would be the givens? Well first it would be active, unlike the hifi market, studio monitoring has long since embraced the active route. Secondly small drive units, 100 or 125mm ( four or five inches in old money) for the mid/bass driver, and to …
Marenius DAC-S2 Review – 2015 update
If you judge a piece of gear by how often you use it then Marenius’s DAC – S2 passes the test with flying colours. In use daily, I never tire of listening to the Marenius, almost certainly because of the insights it delivers into the audio material and the sheer amount of detail that it delivers. Right now I’ve returned …
HHB UDP 89 Review
I have five silver disk players in my life. At work an Alesis Masterlink a Fostex CR-500 and a Denon DN-C640. At home a Pioneer 656A and a Sony XE597. Every one of these I bought because it does a little more. So I should be a sucker for HHB’s UDP-89, which promises more, more and more. Hence U for …
Tascam SSR-1 SS-CDR1 Tascam Audio Recorders review
If dear reader you are eager to get to grips with Compact Flash let me assure you that you have come to the right place, but for the moment excerise a modicum of patience as we first consider the rotating silver medium that we have come to know and love so well. Like the baddie in a cheap horror flick …
Speck x.sum – Phoenix Nicerizer 2 – Summing Amps review
Buying equipment on the basis of “more” is relatively straightforward. If you need more microphones then regardless of which mics you add to your stock you can at least at the end of the process comfort yourself with the simple satisfaction of having added something tangible to your kit list. You can now put seventeen mics on a drum kit …
Fostex CR500 review
First if all dear reader I must reassure you that though in the course of this review there’s many a false start and unhappy turn, in the end true love conquers all. So be of good heart. I found a had a few minutes on a quite Saturday in the office to unpack the Fostex CR 500 before heading up …
Spot On Broadcast Audio Player from Sigma Broadcast – Review
“Bong” – the ITV News is brought to you by SpotOn. Although you may not have heard of SpotOn you’ve certainly heard it in operation. From the National Lottery to the ITV News SpotOn is rapidly becoming the replay software of choice for much of the TV industry. Like all really good ideas it’s a simple one; a Windows based …