08. June 2025 · Comments Off on Snobbery In The Audiophile World – A Discussion Starter · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: , ,

The original title for this week’s Sunday Thoughts piece was going to be “Stop Being An Arsehole” (asshole, for our US readers) but I didn’t think the SEO lords would like that very much. Anyway, read on…

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01. June 2025 · Comments Off on Where Are All the Young Audiophiles? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: ,

Where Are All the Young Audiophiles?

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25. May 2025 · Comments Off on All-in-One Systems Are a Good Thing – For Some People · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: , ,

All-in-One Systems Are a Good Thing – For Some People

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18. May 2025 · Comments Off on Goodnight, Munich – Hello, Vienna! · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, High End Munich, Views Of Stu · Tags: , , , ,

Goodnight, Munich – Hello, Vienna!

Goodnight Munich, Hello Vienna
 High end Munich 2025
High end vienna 2026

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11. May 2025 · Comments Off on Whatever Happened to Rock Star Excess? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags:

Where did the excess of rockstardom go, and should it make a return?

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04. May 2025 · Comments Off on Packaging For HiFi – To Serve And To Protect · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags:

Should HiFi Packaging Be Environmentally Friendly? Or Just Bulletproof?

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27. April 2025 · Comments Off on Filing Systems: The Record Collector’s Dilemma · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: ,

Filing Systems: The Record Collector’s Dilemma

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20. April 2025 · Comments Off on Completists: Gotta Catch ‘Em All? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags:

Completists: Gotta Catch ‘Em All?

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13. April 2025 · Comments Off on Box Sets – Just Fancy Dust Collectors? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: , , ,

Box Sets – Just Fancy Dust Collectors?

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06. April 2025 · Comments Off on Should Home Audio Look Good As Good As It Sounds? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: , ,

Should Home Audio Look Good As Good As It Sounds?

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30. March 2025 · Comments Off on Are Cassettes More Than Just Nostalgia? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: ,

Are cassettes little more than just nostalgia or do they have a place in the audiophile’s arsenal?

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16. March 2025 · Comments Off on The Single Life – The Magic Of Single · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu

The single was the mainstay of the teenager’s musical diet, but what magic is held within those grooves?

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09. March 2025 · Comments Off on Is Streaming REALLY Killing Physical Media? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: ,

Rediscovering the Joy of Physical Media…if you ever really “undiscovered” it.

Is Streaming REALLY Killing Physical Media?

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16. February 2025 · Comments Off on Why We Audiophile · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags:

Some Sunday thoughts on whether this audiophile journey has a destination, or if nirvana is forever just around the next upgrade bend….and at a cost.

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01. February 2022 · Comments Off on How Much? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags:

IT COSTS HOW MUCH?

Stuart Smith looks at the cost of HiFi. More »

29. June 2021 · Comments Off on Stu’s Views – Free Parties · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags:

A personal viewpoint on free parties.

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01. June 2021 · Comments Off on Stu’s Views – HiFi Shows. Are You Going? · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Hifi Shows, Views Of Stu · Tags:

The Future of HiFi Shows – A Short-Term Viewpoint. More »

17. May 2021 · Comments Off on Stu’s Views – Headphones, Paranoia and Isolationism · Categories: Comment, Hifi News, Views Of Stu · Tags: , ,

I recently got a pair of rather splendid in-ear headphones sent for review and a few things struck me about headphones and the way that we (or I) consume music. More »

Stu’s guide to not being a dick when it comes to buying Hifi. More »

I was trying to think back to the time when I had my Hifi Epiphany and originally had that instant when I first had the experience of knowing that a high level of audio playback was something that was really essential to me.

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THE NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVE – EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE

Stu’s interest in the Neil Young Archive is piqued by David Solomon of Qobuz and Phil Baker, CEO of the Neil Young Archives.

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Hifi things go awry without a logical explanation? It can only be The Hifi Poltergeist!

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This week Stu looks at Hifi Shows – remember them? More »

Stu looks at a few things from his past as a fledgling audiophile, though he didn’t know it then.
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More Hifi and audiophile tools and tweaks that many of us will have at our disposal to make our audio lives ‘easier’.
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