Tír Na HiFi

I’ve had a fair bit gear come and go. I changed for changed sake, but tbh all the gear I’ve had was good quality and had some interesting surprises. Some of the changes were a more sideways move as distinct from an advance. Some gear was so so, like a Onkyo amp I once had, good features with a surpr...

A very happy & Holy Christmas to you, your family & loved ones! Let’s hope Santa is generous to fulfilling all our Hifi dreams tonight!!!

Thanks for the write up & photos of the Chinese carts. TBH there is very little the Chinese cannot do. Quality is also improving across the board too. Do keep us updated on any further insights you might gather. Certainly is food for thought! Mainstream cart makers should be worried ( if the car...

Granted it may be a bit outside the budget, but the Technics decks are very good.

The GR2 is about 2.2K but there is another model 1500 I think which is cheaper.

Clear upgrade path to the grand daddy 1000 series for 22K if you fancy that route!!

All depends on how many is a lot of negatives? 300, 800, 2500+? I think Conns Cameras in Dublin offer scanning of negatives to CD, their website might list prices. But if you are going to do it yourself then a starting point might be an Epson V series scanner. Negatives would be clean and mounted in...

Jungle…..For ever.

2018, on yellow vinyl.

Most enjoyable!

Tea time Dub Encounters….

Underworld and Iggy Pop come together in a collaborative creation…. Most enjoyable.

Soft Cell>……Non Stop Extended Cabaret…. One of the elements of December 2023’s rapturously received deluxe 6CD box set of Soft Cell’s stone cold 1981 electro pop classic, ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’, was the inclusion of the entire original album presented as extended 12” versions. Now released on vin...

Cold Wave…#1

Compilation of different artists…experimental / synth/ electronica etc

Hanna Peel……..Firwave. Such is the long shadow of Covid that this is effectively the live launch of Hannah Peel’s acclaimed album Fir Wave, even if it comes nearly two years after it was released, and long after it was shortlisted for the 2021 Mercury prize. She explains tonight that it wasn’t even ...