The Playback Blog is for the technically minded audiophile who is prepared to go beyond commercially accepted standards in search of engineering perfection. Moderated by Ed Kwok, a UK qualified Chartered Engineer and patent holder with a military electronics background. If playback to you means spending hundreds of thousands on a system and having it set up by the dealer then stop reading now. However if you like meticulously engineered equipment based on proper application of scientific knowledge and you are happiest when you have a data sheet in one hand and a soldering iron in the other then read on!