It's more than 50 years since the late E J (Ted) Jordan developed his groundbreaking profiled metal cone, yet his concept still has a loyal following among loudspeaker builders around the world. Ted Jordan passed away in 2016, but the company he left behind continues to supply the Jordan drive units and regularly comes up with new enclosure designs for them. And promised for later this year is the definitive new edition of Jordan's 1962 book Loudspeakers. But an interesting recent departure for the current E J Jordan website is its 'Vinyl Revival Blog', which as I write, extends to three episodes, and is introduced like this: 'The series will look at some of the classic turntables available on the secondhand market - what is worth investigating, what should be avoided and, crucially, what do you need to get the best out of them?' The blog, we are told, is written by 'a longtime turntable expert and ex-industry vinyl retrophile'. I was intrigued, as you might well be when you visit www. ejjordan.co.uk, but the author's identity, it seems, is not to be revealed. Seasoned observers of the hi-fi scene, and oldies like me, will amuse themselves by trying to guess. But the blog isn't written for them, nor for those easily able to splash out big sums on luxury-goods hi-fi.
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