Dont get conned. The following is sound advice for buyers and sellers from personal experience and what I have seen recently on eBay. For the Buyers 1. Read all the advert as a BOX usually means just the...
In recent weeks especially with regard to high value Hi-Fi equipment I have seen many items that have been listed as "Post to UK only" receive last minute bids from outside the UK. At best this can mean the...
Beware of sellers with 1 day listings and who ask to be emailed directly instead of through eBay. These are often fraudsters who have stolen somebody's details and pretend to sell high value items like...
There are now many sellers, registered in China and the USA, who are selling cheap goods that look to be real bargains but have extorionate shipping costs. They sell the item cheap because the shipping charge...
Fake emails are common and every eBay user will have received them. However a surprising number of people do not realise they are scams and are designed to harvest your username and password. The text in them...
The controversy surrounding the effect of interconnect cables on audio performance is littered with half truths and lies. There are many who will gladly sell audiophile enthusiasts a cable 1m in length,...
The rule of thumb I use is simple. For speaker wire, buy the fattest / thickest wire you can afford, that is to say the cable with the greatest cross-sectional area ( usually shown in square millimetres ( such...
Read this carefully if you are tempted to buy these shiny speakers. The Matrix website that gives the technical details for these speakers (and suggests that thay have a retail value of $3998 a pair) is part...
Audiophile - in Latin 'lovers of sound'Overview It's no exaggeration to say that vinyl has experienced something of a resurgence in the last decade. In a world of musical convenience gained from the...
Before buying a DAB radio or tuner, DAB+ here (UK) soon!DAB DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) radio uses MP2 digital encoding.The MP2 audio CODEC is based on the MUSICAM audio codec that was designed in...