Inner-magazines’ long- time technical advisor Mr. Mauri Pännäri is having his 75th Anniversary on 3 April 2024, and Inner-magazines gratefully congratulates him on the big day. Pännäri has published more than twenty DIY articles in various magazines over the past 50 years of hobbying. His contributions to the INNER include: Revenge 6BX7 amplifier. A novelty low- wattage triode split load PP… Source ..read more

Only live fish swim upstream. Remembered that when, around 10 years ago, I reviewed, side by side, two major top-end CD Players, Wadia 381i from USA, and AMR CD-77 from the UK. Both were genuine CD Players, i.e. they didn’t read anything else than CDs. If they optionally accepted digital data via an extra bus, they outputted it on the CD-level and nothing more. At the time of the launch… Source ..read more

Not that long ago, all of a sudden QSA (Quantum Science Audio) fuses were on everybody’s lips, inside the audiophile community at least. And not only that, some hi-fi reviewers and discussion forum praised the sonic contribution of the QSA fuses while being horrified by their price. A thousand dollars for a fuse! What madness! What a hoax! A thousand dollars! Of course I got interested! Source ..read more

The French Robin Audio is known for its exceptional looking and extraordinary current-driven Oloron speaker, a closed two-way speaker with the company’s own 350mm coaxial driver with a servo-controlled MFB woofer (60 ohm) and 135mm wide-bandwidth unit (30 ohm) for higher frequencies, crossover frequency at 180 Hz, 28Hz to 18kHz (+/-3dB) frequency response, and 106 dB max. cont. SPL @1m. Source ..read more

O tempora! Hi-Fi hobby has grown to a man’s age, and you know it from the fact that an audio company after another announces its 50th Anniversary (or more). This year it is time for the prestigious Australian loudspeaker manufacturer, Krix Loudspeakers, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. What’s unusual is that in 2024, after five decades, Krix is still family-owned, the founder Scott Krix… Source ..read more

London-based collective, UKAEA, known for its experimental electronic music, informed us of their second album, Birds Catching Fire In The Sky, to be released on Fri 19th Jan 2024 via The state51 Conspiracy label, both in vinyl LP and digital formats. The new album is described as a lamentation in an age of mechanical violence but also a celebration of human defiance and endurance: “The… Source ..read more

Elise Guillaume (1996) is a Belgian artist and filmmaker whose work “explores our complex relationship with nature”. From 6 October to 10 December 2023, Espace Croisé, Contemporary Art Centre in northern France, run a solo exhibition by Elise Guillaume, titled Émotions Terranaissantes. The title is borrowed from the Australian environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht (Terranascient refers to… Source ..read more

We may agree that it is a most refreshing experience to visit a live concert be it of any genre: symphony, organ, jazz, rock or other. After a pleasing concert night, turning on one’s high quality Hi-Fi system leads to a disappointment: the magic of the concert is more or less gone – once again. Despite the fact that all the work by great designers around Hi-Fi during past eighty years or so has... Source ..read more

The 2023 Helsinki HIFI EXPO was held 16-17 September at the Helsinki Exhibition Center. Everything was on display, from the smallest to the largest and from the cheapest to the most expensive. Grand systems were well presented this time, so let’s start with them. FULL-RANGE SPEAKERS ROSSO FIORENTINO This is not strictly speaking a new loudspeaker but made its first show appearance in Finland... Source ..read more

Over the years, I’ve heard Wilson Audio’s loudspeakers, smaller and bigger models, here and there, often together with VTL electronics but not only. However, those events have been public in nature, such as Hi-Fi Shows and other open demonstrations, never quiet peaceful situations where one could genuinely, with no stress or other disturbance, concentrate on the true qualities of the speaker in... Source ..read more