Happy Christmas from the HiFi Hobbyist!

This week’s podcast considers Handels’ Messiah, which has become a staple at Christmas.

We shall consider its origins, its impact, and the HiFi Hobbyists favourite recordings

The selections of Messiah that accompany the podcast are supplied from Wikimedia Commons. They are used under a Creative Commons 2.0 licence

I hope that you enjoy the podcast!

This week’s generated discussion iis about last week’s podcast about the relative merits of valve and solid-state (transistor) circuitry in high-fidelity audio amplification.

It takes the form of a debate about the merits of each technology with each participant championing one of the technologies

This week’s music is entitled Digital Sunset by Nver Avetyan and used under a Pixabay licence.

I hope that you enjoy the discussion.

This week’s podcast which considers the relative merits of valve and solid-state circuitry in high-fidelity audio amplification. We use the term “solid state’ because the discrete transistors of early designs have now largely been superseded by integrated circuits incorporating many transistors

Transistors largely replaced valves in the 1960s, but have retained a niche market in high-end, and also some budget enthusiast products, and we will try to understand why.

As valve amplification is often associated with fans of acoustic music, this week’s music is a piece of acoustic jazz entitled Fast Jazz by WaveMaster and used under a Pixabay licence.

I hope that you enjoy the podcast!