I thought a site like this would be fun, and have owned the ratemyhifi.com domain name for awhile now.

And, well, finally got around to setting it up.

You can get to it from our home page at Audio Federation or by going to ratemyhifi.com.

This will both be a place to collect our best-of-the-best photos from shows and those taken of components from our own showrooms floors…

… and PRIMARILY a place for folks to post their photos.

Not just of their systems, but their amps, LP collections, listening chairs… all sorts of stuff. [Hey, I am always looking for great listening chairs… a VERY important part of the listening experience if you ask me 🙂 ]

We see people post so many photos on the net that come and go. Great photos. Photos that make one really appreciate that ALL components, no matter the price, can look awfully delicious to the hungry audiophile…

It doesn’t necessarily have to be components that you own now, or that you ever owned yourself, or, who knows, maybe nobody ever owned one!

We just want photos: cool, strange, fascinating, kooky, awesome, sleek, kludgey, new, old, beatup, or spiffy photos.

[We’ve put a few pics up, and will put up losts more over time, especially in the Show and Conferences Photos category – but right now we have our photo processing engines resting a little in preperation for the upcoming giant photo storm…. aka HE 2006.]

Because of the current SPAM storms, and also so the software knows whose name to put under the photos, people need to register before they upload or comment on pictures.

If this becomes too much of a pain for people we can modify the software to be even smarter… But the software will never be smarter than its programmers – and so please don’t expect too much 🙂

Anyway, hope y’all like!
Mike.

Let’s see.

We added a bunch of Kharma photos to the Kharma pages:

Kharma Mini Exquisite photos
Are there too many similar pictures? After getting rid of about 95% of the photos of these speakers that were just not ‘right’, these last few I just can’t decide between.

Kharma Ceramique 3.1 Photos

Kharma MP-150 amplifier

We added a bunch of pictures of the Brinkmann LaGrange turntable with 12″ arm:

Brinkmann LaGrange Photos

and still need to add a few picturing its dissasembly.

Also added some pictures of the L2, ML1.1 and ML2.1:

Lamm ML2.1

Lamm ML1.1

Lamm L2
Again, some of the photos are probably too similar to each other – but we will remedy this over time 🙂

Rearranged the Audio Aero, Marten Design and HRS photo galleries to make them easier to access (and more visually attractive) and to prepare for adding galleries featuring others of their product line (in the very near future 🙂 )

Like all photo galleries, they will be updated with photos over the months and years that are ‘better’ and/or more ‘artsy’ and/or more ‘sexy’.

The Hifi’ing magazine has also eveolved into its next stage. The pictures still need ALT text for people who can’t see the pictorial index, but it is pretty close to being finished – for the near term anyway. It allows indexing into this Blog both by Article Category and now by Major Article. And, of course, this Blog allows browsing of the articles in Cronological order. And as a last restort there is always Google. 🙂

The new look of the HiFi’ing Magazine

Kharma Mini Exquisites still breaking in….