LISTENING: To storage

                HiFi Critic write ….. Listening tests reveal significant sound quality differences between various digital music storage technologies. Article By Andrew Harrison and Stephen N. Harris. Press ‘play’ on the remote control, and the chosen music selection sounds out into the room, sweet and clear. However, instead of […]

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We’re purists, right? We seek to clear the clutter, end the distortion, cut through the haze, and get to the musical truth

It’s why we don’t like tone controls or, for that matter, anything not focused on purity—except when the unpure is packaged as perfectionist. I remember when Mark Levinson’s second company Cello launched the Audio Palette, itself a tone control. But it was expensive, in a beautiful chassis, and helped remove the stigma associated with tone […]

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Albert Von Schweikert’s VR-55 Aktive speakers and an all PS system. What a treat.

Paul McGowan writes: I was privileged to speak in front of the San Francisco Audiophile Society several days ago. There, a fine group of like-minded folks and I spent time together in the living room of our hosts, Joe and Debbie, playing music on a pair of Albert Von Schweikert’s VR-55 Aktive speakers and an […]

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OPINION: It’s what distinguishes the high from the low in “end”.

In September of 1928, Alexander Flemming happened to notice that some bacteria he was culturing in a Petri dish died – apparently because of a mold that had unexpectedly grown in the dish.  This chance observation led to the discovery of penicillin “the wonder drug” that has perhaps saved more lives than any other drug. […]

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