Latest articles by Jez Ford
Jez Ford looks back on a formative – and hugely enjoyable – period in his career
I have long been preaching that Atmos music is really for loudspeakers only. But Apple's latest overears are persuading me otherwise.
We test the streaming files to establish whether Spotify’s long-awaited lossless delivery actually serves the bit-perfect quality it promises. Results were good, but there is a catch.
System not sounding quite right? Check you're not stuck in some crazy EQ mode.
I went to the Sydney Opera House to see a Brian Eno documentary edited in real-time by a computer, so every version is unique. Could other movies be made this way?
I said recently that Christmas albums should be hidden away from Boxing Day until at least the following December, but on this occasion I will make an exception...
I strongly suggest physically isolating your festive tunes so they can’t infect the rest of your year.
An orchestra of music mixed as a 3D choreography of sound – a new visual audio format makes good sense for VR goggles, but is that how we want to listen to music?
I recently transformed two hi-fi and TV sound systems – one of them for almost nothing because of a hilarious installation error.
The furry litter-pickers were a supergroup of GOATs and heavily influential on my formative musical taste.
The bad news: your home cinema ain’t gonna cut it. The good news: there’s more to fulldome than Floyd.
As we wave goodbye to the CD format, it turns out silver discs were largely imaginary all along...
I decided to see what the real measurable differences were between the (hopefully) lossless service and the admitted lossy Spotify...
Once upon a time I travelled the world in search of silence. I never found it...
Bluetooth speakers are convenient and affordable, but you can do better. Much better.
A realisation that open-house lifestyles may not provide quite the conditions for which your loudspeakers were designed...
The highlights from, and the lowdown on, the weekend’s Australian Hi-Fi Show in Sydney...
Égalité, fraternité, they say, but the English and French soundtracks of Tour de France Unchained do not treat their audience equally.
Medieval music in a big cathedral is not generally my first go-to for an evening listening session. But wow, now it is.
From a home-made violin – via Floyd Toole and Canada's National Research Council – to a a 50-year-strong speaker brand.
Bluetooth cannot transmit lossless high-res audio. Ultra-Wideband can. Will it change the world of headphones?
AI art and AI chat are changing the world. AI video is developing - but what about AI sound?
