About Adam Rayner

Hello and welcome to the official Adam Rayner UK tech website! Three thousand awesomely searchable articles and video entries, going back through over a decade of the Golden Era of Car Audio. When the digital dawn had properly risen and car hifi was best bought after the car, not with it.

Going forwards, we still have the very finest stuff from the manufacturers good enough to be prosperous, as well as our new focus upon the finest OEM systems in cars as diverse as Kias and Ferraris, Volvos and Maseratis, even FORDS!

Expect more videos, reviews and news. With Rock N Roll and pro audio kit as well as the baddest home HiFi, Adam’s enthusiasm for toys and tech for grown-ups, remains childishly undimmed.

Here is an update of that very first ‘hello-and-here-I-am!’ post from Talk Audio in 2007.

For the last two decades and a bit, I have been reviewing mobile electronics products and installations all around the world, from Japan to ‘Vegas to Canvey Island, Essex.

With a CV covering recording studios, rehearsal rooms and huge stadium-sized speaker systems for rock concerts, I was also production manager for Acoustic Energy loudspeakers. Our flagship was a bookshelf speaker that cost £700 a pair, back when that was a lot of money for small bookshelf speakers. (Still legendary at their 30th anniversary and up there with the Wilson Watt.)

I moved to car audio as a natural progression. I worked with StreetWires, Altec Lansing, Cerwin-Vega and HiFonics, as well as Earthquake of San Francisco. I even repped for an accessories firm for a while, so I paid my dues getting worn shoes, going around the shops for orders. So I know my stuff in the trade, I know my stuff with the kit.

I was given a chance to join my family’s profession (words in a row, for sale…) by Car Stereo & Security magazine and was subsequently In Car Electronics editor of Max Power for four years. Seven years in the same job for Fast Car and then ten years as an online editor, thanks to the fabulous forum community built up on Talk Audio.

I also review high end home cinema speaker systems, (I can understand every third word speaker designers say) and can be found on the web at Home Cinema Choice magazine’s reviews section, as well as Techradar – although on that site, my credit only appears as a final byeline.

I have two YouTube Channels, PRESENTERBLOKE and Mounted & Stuffed. The first is the tech, running as I write, at just under 12 million views and 8m minutes seen. My ‘viral’ is at around 3 million hits! The latter is my outdoors stuff. I can also be found as the Anglers Mail’s South East fishery venue reporter and have videos with lakes and angling stars alike, on ANGLERSMAILTV channel.

I am on the BBC’s ‘pundit list’ as “motoring Journalist” thanks to a word with a researcher by Nicky Campbell many years ago (I have finally publicly thanked him!) and will pop up on local and national radio from time to time. My fave, after the Breakfast TV sofa, is Jeremy Vine on Radio 2.