This is a review I’ve been meaning to get to for several months now. Not because I wasn’t looking forward to it (far from it) but because, like with so many of us, real life managed to intervene and, before I knew it, I reached the end of the year and my “to-do” list was longer than a Guns n’ Roses rider. However, the end of the year also brings with it some downtime and, away from work and with a short gap and some spare time between Christmas and New Year celebrations, my gain is your loss. I write reviews infrequently, haphazardly and with a...

My experience with Campfire products is fairly minimal. I've heard the original Andromeda for about 10mins and I've owned the original Solaris for around 3 months. However the brand is pretty legendary and could reasonably be credited with contributing to starting a new wave in design and R&D in the industry, so having owned the Solaris, I've been keen to try a few more of their roster As part of the UK tour (thanks John @ KS), these arrived on my doorstep in the middle of a seriously busy time - I had two weeks to get to know them and I never...

Introduction Firstly a bit about me – I consider myself a melophile, not an audiophile. I got into this hobby trying to make music sound the best I could afford to make it sound. I suspect most of us are like this. I also suspect most of us get sucked into the definition of “best”. And the definition of “afford”. Over the years, at various times, both of these terms have had variable meanings to me. These days – well I’m still not sure. But I still sure as hell love finding out. So I guess in some ways it does make me an audiophile. I’ve grown to...