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This year the Helsinki Hi-Fi Show, due to some construction work at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, was squeezed to only one floor, and even there the number of demo rooms was more modest than in previous years. To remedy the situation, the organizer promised visitors two major attractions. The first was JBL’s mighty 160,000 euro Everest flagship loudspeaker. It so h...

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What can I say? A great little amplifier! So cool! And so different from any other, current or former. Brought to the market in 1984, the new Musical Fidelity A1 is only 68 mm high, but as such a far cry from the 1960s/70s flat style of B&O’s Jacob Jensen. The A1 was designed by the Pentagram design studio, founded by Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes and Kenneth Grange. Grange...

(A review from the archive.) Hardly any question has shocked mainstream Hi-Fi, or at least some of it, as much in recent years as this one: What’s the point of heating the voice coil of a 83 dB sensitive loudspeaker with tens or hundreds of watts, when the same sound pressure, e.g. 110 dB, can be achieved with a few watts with 100 dB sensitive speakers? Sensitive speakers and...

Jean Dubuffet first defined l’art brut in 1949 like this: (i) We understand by this term works produced by persons unscathed by artistic culture, where mimicry plays little or no part (contrary to the activities of intellectuals) (ii) We are witnesses here to a completely pure artistic operation, raw, brute, and entirely reinvented in all of its phases solely by means of the ...