I am using Rega Planar 3 / Arcam Solo Mini / Clearaudio Nano Phonostage / B&W 686. This provides me with hours of pleasure and entertainment. However, it’s starting to attract some unwanted attention from my young children. My system resides on a two tier Apollo hi-fi stand but this is open and ideally I […]
Month: October 2019
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Steve Guttenberg writes: Before multitasking, sound was a big deal, so it was easier to be blown away by it. CNET’s Geoff Morrison used the above image from a Maxell tape ad in his “Music multitasking: How ‘background’ listening enhances life” blog post a few weeks ago, and that image really took me back. Maxell’s […]
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[Warning: If you are easily offended, or a Democrat, or earning less than $200,000 per annum and bothered by it, or are inherently antipathetic to those with money even if they’ve earned it by hard work, please skip this month’s column, because no apologies will be forthcoming.] Human nature leads us — no matter how […]
Liquid foams have a remarkable property: they completely block the transmission of sound over a wide range of frequencies. Physicists have studied how sound is attenuated in liquid foams. Their findings open the way to the development of tools called acoustic probes that could be used to monitor the quality of foams used in industry, […]
They’re flat, ultra-thin and great-sounding. The world’s first known magnetic cellulose loudspeakers have been demonstrated. Continue HERE
They say ….. MartinLogan, the world’s leader in electrostatic and Folded MotionTM loudspeaker technology, proudly announces the introduction of the bigger, bolder ElectroMotion ESL X model (EM-ESL X). The ElectroMotion Series is the perfect introduction to the high performance electrostatic concept. The new ElectroMotion ESL X features a larger electrostatic transducer and dual woofers, with […]
In Part 1 of this continuing series on audio reviews and reviewers I asked the question “Are Audio Reviews and Reviewers Really Necessary?” and concluded that they were, if only because there are so many possible combinations of the equipment available to us that, if equipment interactions affect the sound of our systems (as everybody, […]
Originally published December 2013 How often is it that you can get something for your system for nothing? Almost never. Below are six of our favorite free pieces of software that we think every audio enthusiast should download and try out. From CD ripping to improving your ability to critically listen, this list has something […]
The world’s first electrostatically driven graphene speaker matches or outperforms commercially available earphones, say physicists. Most loudspeakers work using a diaphragm that creates pressure waves in air by mechanically vibrating. “For human audibility, an ideal speaker or earphone should generate a constant sound pressure level from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, i.e. it should have a […]
Jacques Heemskerk, research scientist: ‘When the CD came in, I got rid of all my old Rolling Stones and Beatles vinyl. It still hurts’ Interviews by Dave Simpson (The Guardian) Jacques Heemskerk, research scientist, Philips In the 1970s, Philips felt that the vinyl disc was coming to the end of its lifetime, because it was cumbersome, […]
An open letter from myself and AudioQuest to the community—to everyone who cherishes the truth, regardless of their opinions about audio and digital cables, regardless of their opinions about AudioQuest. For good reason, there is growing internet “buzz” about the recently published findings of Mark Waldrep on his Real HD-AUDiO blog. Mark’s findings are very […]
Stereophile has turned a critical eye to Light Harmonic’s “Geek “crowd-funding campaigns (the “Geek Out” and the “Geek Pulse”). After a very nice article covering Geek in the January issue, things turned for the worse by the time February rolled around. Rocks started to get thrown. As Stephen Mejias writes on page 43: “Essentially they […]
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Jimmy Stamp writes: The first time I heard the White Stripes, I remember thinking, “This is high quality rock and roll. Pure and simple.” There’s something undeniably authentic about the unabashed, heart-on-sleeve music of the White Stripes. It fits seamlessly into the continuum of music history, bridging the past with the present, somehow sounding like […]
Paul McGowan writes: In the process of answering the many comments I receive (which are much appreciated) one was made that really struck home. Here is the comment from frequent contributor Mark Fisher that was made after I wrote “it’s amazing what it has done for the system.” “This seems to happen every time […]
An owner writes ….. 50 Songs, from My Way to Auld Lang Syne get a few pages of descriptions about their meaning and the stories behind the writing of them in this entertaining book that should be a hit with any one who has more than a passing interest in music. I knew most of […]
PAUL RIGBY writes ….. The new RPM 10 Carbon turntable employs ‘high mass’ principles with resin-coated steel pellets packed inside the CNC-machined MDF structure. The whole plinth is then subjected to a complex heat treatment and carbon fibre surface coating to ensure minimal resonance travels through the turntable. The plinth is finished with magnetic feet. […]
The thread starts: Is it possible to set-up a thriving new business selling audio equipment of good quality? ‘Richer Sound’ have got the low and midrange pretty well sewn-up. And can the ‘high-end’ survive, apart from a handfull of already well-established dealers? Personally, I doubt it. The market is shrinking,costs are rising. Dealers get […]
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