Andrew Everard's blog
Hands-on with the Naim NDS
Sometimes good things turn bad, and sometimes adversity brings opportunities: both were involved in how I came to be using Naim's flagship streamer, the £6250 NDS, in my system at home.It started when we had an updating session in the office, ...
How to build a NAS to store your music
How to build a NAS to store your music, and at least some of all you need to know about RAID and backups You know Parkinson's Law? The one that says 'Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion'? Well, ...
The ultimate home cinema processor – and how film premieres at home are on the way
I've just spent the day at Datasat, and I think I may have seen the future of home cinema. If you've not been paying attention to your movie posters of late, you may be forgiven for saying 'Datasat – who?' Well, since May ...
Linn Kiko: streaming for the style-conscious?
Over the past few weeks, it's been hard to avoid the new Linn Kiko system – it's been all over the various social media channels, Twittering and Facebooking like mad with promotions such as 'Name your favourite ten seconds of music'. What's more, ...
'A perfect time to hang a large bus off the edge of a building in a seaside town'
Took a day out yesterday – yes, I know, but the weather was too good to miss – to combine a visit to the South Coast with the opportunity to indulge my passion for The Italian Job.Before we go any further, let's just make it clear we're talking ...
Much more to it than endless noodling
Electronic music – what does that make you think of? Massive Jean Michel Jarre shows, complete with half of London lit up to look like imploding galaxies or wonky pyramids?The Doctor Who theme? Brian Eno's synth breaks on early Roxy Music ...
Panasonic chairman plans company shift away from TVs – and consumer electronics. But is it too little too late?
Each day seems to bring more about the woes of the Japanese consumer electronics industry, and some recent coverage in the country's Nikkei business daily gives some idea of just how tough things have become.In an interview, new Panasonic ...
Japan's TV production shakedown shows no sign of slowing
Last November I wrote a blog piece suggesting that – in consumer electronics at least – 'Made in Japan' was in danger of giving way to a future in which products may still be designed by the big names, but they'd be made outside Japan by ...
Is that a Freeview box in your pocket, or...
With the impending Olympics – has anyone managed to find a BBC programme of late that doesn't have an Olympic reference in it somewhere? –, thoughts have already started to turn to where and when we'll be able to watch the events.TVs in the ...
Boston Acoustics, Denon and Marantz unleash a deluge of streaming
Almost there now, people – the last part of this report from the D+M Group event in Valencia is all about music of the streaming variety. Which is kind of ironic given that, for all the five-star grandeur of the Valencia hotel chosen ...
