Jez Ford

I have long been preaching that Atmos music is really for loudspeakers only. But Apple's latest overears are persuading me otherwise.

We test the streaming files to establish whether Spotify’s long-awaited lossless delivery actually serves the bit-perfect quality it promises. Results were good, but there is a catch.

System not sounding quite right? Check you're not stuck in some crazy EQ mode.

I went to the Sydney Opera House to see a Brian Eno documentary edited in real-time by a computer, so every version is unique. Could other movies be made this way?

I said recently that Christmas albums should be hidden away from Boxing Day until at least the following December, but on this occasion I will make an exception...

I strongly suggest physically isolating your festive tunes so they can’t infect the rest of your year.

An orchestra of music mixed as a 3D choreography of sound – a new visual audio format makes good sense for VR goggles, but is that how we want to listen to music?

I recently transformed two hi-fi and TV sound systems – one of them for almost nothing because of a hilarious installation error.

The furry litter-pickers were a supergroup of GOATs and heavily influential on my formative musical taste.

The bad news: your home cinema ain’t gonna cut it. The good news: there’s more to fulldome than Floyd.

As we wave goodbye to the CD format, it turns out silver discs were largely imaginary all along...

I decided to see what the real measurable differences were between the (hopefully) lossless service and the admitted lossy Spotify...

Once upon a time I travelled the world in search of silence. I never found it...

Bluetooth speakers are convenient and affordable, but you can do better. Much better.

A realisation that open-house lifestyles may not provide quite the conditions for which your loudspeakers were designed...

The highlights from, and the lowdown on, the weekend’s Australian Hi-Fi Show in Sydney...

Dude, where's my carMignon?

Égalité, fraternité, they say, but the English and French soundtracks of Tour de France Unchained do not treat their audience equally.

Medieval music in a big cathedral is not generally my first go-to for an evening listening session. But wow, now it is.

From a home-made violin – via Floyd Toole and Canada's National Research Council – to a a 50-year-strong speaker brand.

Bluetooth cannot transmit lossless high-res audio. Ultra-Wideband can. Will it change the world of headphones?

AI art and AI chat are changing the world. AI video is developing - but what about AI sound?

If you think Sennheiser’s Ambeo is a world-beating soundbar, think again. Now it’s a stereo soundtrack on Netflix’s Series 4 of Stranger Things. Confused? Here’s the back story.