Lockdown continues and looks set to carry us, in some form, through to the end of the summer. Our editor doubts that there will be any hi-fi shows during 2020, and I will most mourn my three favourite audio events should they not happen: the autumn Tonbridge Audiojumble and the high-end shows in Warsaw and Tokyo. I still haven't gotten over the demise of TopAUDIO in Milan, dead since 2011, so I anticipate a bleak year ahead. SOFTWARE PLETHORA That said, I am loving lockdown (sciatica aside) because I'm growing increasingly misanthropic in my dotage. I am ploughing through thousands - literally! - of unplayed LPs, tapes, DVDs and Blu-rays, piled up over the years. From what I can gather, I'm not alone in this. But while millions are box-set bingeing due to lockdown, hard-core audiophiles have a cooler avenue of release: digging out old components.
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