The thread starts: I am just wanting to know if I’m the only one at the age of 16 that is dumping all my money into powering up my vintage Hi-Fi setup in my mancave? I’m certainly quite the odd one out in my school as the only thing I like is classic rock, anything […]
Month: February 2020
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Robert Baird writes: Call me a hopeless romantic but I could not get “Penny Lane” out of my head as I sat in the back of a black cab whizzing across a remarkably deserted London early one morning a couple weeks ago. “On the corner is a banker with a motorcar…” I was on a […]
“It’s interesting (to me) that you guys really enjoyed the Avantegarde speakers because myself and a friend (who normally loves horn speakers) were entirely underwhelmed by them. Personally, I was too aware of odd colourations and they just didn’t have the immediacy, or intimacy, that I associate with really good horns. Perhaps if they had […]
Hi, I just was thinking that I usually listen to music with the volume pot at 9 o’clock, rarely more. And was wondering if something could be done technically to the amp to have better sound quality.I mean, if I take an amp, find a way to lower its output gain, I’ll be able to […]
Political action had always been a defining aspect of the career of Crosby, Stills and Nash. From the iconic moment that David Crosby, then of The Byrds, took to the stage at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 to accuse the US government of a cover-up in the assassination of JFK, he became cast as […]
The thread starts: Can anyone explain why high end audio seems to be forever stuck as a cottage industry? Why do my rich friends who absolutely have to have the BEST of everything and wouldn’t be caught dead without expensive clothes, watch, car, home, furniture etc. settle for cheap mass produced components stuck away in […]
John La Grou, founder and CEO at Millennia Music & Media Systems, forecast how recorded sound will evolve over the coming decades. More HERE
Paul McGowan writes: I think one of the very basic problems with people’s opinions on class D amps is the hierarchy of labeling – I mean, as a child if you get an “A” in school you’re pretty happy; get a “D” or an “F” and you’ll probably be having a conversation with your parents. […]
Joanne Lipman writes: CONDOLEEZZA RICE trained to be a concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a professional clarinet and saxophone player. The hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner is a pianist who took classes at Juilliard. Multiple studies link music study to academic achievement. But what is it about serious music […]
Paul McGowan: Pluck or strum a stringed instrument and you get sound from the vibrating strings amplified by the attached hollow box. As we have mentioned earlier the sound of that plucked string depends certainly on the type of string, its length, tension and sound of its mechanical amplifier, but more so on how that […]
Guys, These are the speakers I have lusted after for years, ever since I first heard them with the Musical Fidelity F Series separates. I loved them. You would imagine then I’d be over the moon and jumping for joy that I won a pair for £550 last night on eBay. They are a bit […]
CHEAP TRICK 1995 BROADCAST FROM LAS VEGAS Cheap Trick left Epic records, the label with which they had had their biggest successes, in 1991, after the disappointing sales of the album Busted. They signed to Warner Brothers in 1993 and released Woke Up With A Monster the following year. Produced by Warner’s Ted Templeman, best […]
Has anyone compared both of these integrateds? I own the 505UX and like it a lot but am looking for more solid state slam & punch. I actually borrowed the 550AX Class A amp for 1 month about a year before I purchased the 505UX. The only thing I remember about the 550AX was […]
Udiscover write: Four months before the Beatles made their bid for the best double album of 1968, Cream made theirs. ‘Wheels Of Fire,’ the record that introduced the classic ‘White Room’ and other great performances by the rock trio, was new in UK record shops exactly 47 years ago, on 9 August 1968, and became […]
Paul McGowan writes: Can we ever hope to achieve a two-channel experience with music so real as to fool ourselves into believing there is an actual musician playing in front of us? I mean sure we can close our eyes and imagine a live event is happening, but in all the years I have never […]
Paul McGowan: Our chief engineer, Bob Stadtherr, always likes to remind us that every project has two phases: the first 90% and the second 90%. It always brings a smile. But he has a point, one you can probably relate to in your own life. You get through the first 90% of your task and […]
A few weeks ago I was in some leadership classes at work that were taught by an PhD Industrial Psychologist. It was very interesting and I learned a lot. He was very knowledgeable about what is going on inside the brain during different actions and thought processes. One example was that the act of throwing […]
Believe it or not, there was a time when people would break into your car to steal the shiny, cheaply made scratch-magnets. Continues HERE
Thread started in 2013 “I have to confess to never having had the pleasure of listening to The Sony XL 88 D (The D stands for diamond cantilever) which was reportedly the most expensive cartridge available in the 80’s. A recent blog update by ‘Audio 16’ (A recommended blog for Western Electric fans and […]
From the archives: Sony has developed a new storage tape that is able to hold up to 185 terabytes (TB) of data per cartridge. Created with the help of IBM, Sony’s technology allows for tapes that can store the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs. The tape hold 148 gigabits (Gb) per square inch – beating […]
I’ve played with every concievable passive pot, Bournes, Alps Blue Velvet, Alps Black Beauty, Penny&Giles, Dact Switched resistors, and transformers. Nothing has beat the sound of a series/ shunt LDR arrangment in the attachement, it has no contacts in the signal path, I believe that is the secret. The only stipulation that all these passive […]
We are told: Adrian Legg is an English guitar player who has been called “impossible to categorize”. He plays custom guitars that are a hybrid of electric and acoustic, and his fingerstyle picking technique has been acknowledged by the readers of Guitar Player who voted Legg the “best acoustic fingerstyle” player four years in a […]