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Month: June 2021
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Paul McGowan writes ….. Just about everything Google does is free. Google search, Docs, Gmail, maps, Earth, and so on. In fact, one of the coolest apps I have ever used is Google Translate. And it’s free. Dining at an Italian, French, or Chinese restaurant and can’t read the menu? Open the app, click on […]
We are told: “When one thinks of Johnny Cash’s recordings, one thing is certain. The Columbia years loom larger than any other phase. A star when he arrived in 1958, when he departed, he was an American icon.” (from the liner notes written by Rich Kienzle) Representing the entirety of the musical performances released by […]
A look back at the career of Glenn Frey, best known as a founding member of the rock band The Eagles, who died January 18, 2016 at the age of 67 in New York City. 1. Found Somebody 2. Take It To The Limit 3. You Belong To The City 4. The Allnighter 5. The […]
Zero calories? Went to cook some scrambled eggs this morning and first sprayed the pan with one of those spray oils. Always conscious of my weight I checked the calorie content: zero. Zero? Really? It is, after all, oil and oil is NOT zero calories. Turns out the agency that regulates the measurement standards has […]
Hello Howard. I have been meaning to ask you for some time what has happened with your association with the Funk firm products. I was also particularly looking forward to your proposed interview with Arthur. In my opinion Funk remain one of the most musically credible and musically convincing turntable designs of all time. However […]
We can hear the softest of sounds in a concert hall and the same in some stereo systems when at low volume levels. But not all. Why are some systems more revealing than others? Watch Now
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Blue Note is proud to present a new batch of six “5 original albums” in one box sets celebrating legendary jazz artists from the Blue Note catalogue. These continue on from the successful Verve and Concord titles released earlier in the year. This run includes Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Kenny […]
Raul Montilla from Puerto Rico sent me a kind note about an interesting experiment from years past. In it, Jack Renner and the engineers from Telarc are said to have recorded the Cleveland Orchestra on both an analog tape recorder and a Soundstream Digital recorder. They then compared the output of the two and all selected the […]
“The release of an album on wax cylinder inspired us to try to make a phonograph to play it.” MORE
This week we’ve got a 90s/00s Eurodance throwback, a post-rock wall of sound and an infectious falsetto chorus MORE HERE
Paul McGowan writes: Now you’ve gotten your main speaker system in order and imaging properly, according to yesterday’s post, it’s time to think about adding our subwoofer. Let’s start with a fairly broad overview and then later we can dig down deep. Your subwoofers are going to be placed behind and to the outside of […]
THE OBJECTIVE: The objective here is to, on a continual basis, refine the best system, under £100, that can be achieved today, pre-owned. A FEW GROUND RULES: Interconnects, power cords and speaker cables … in this context are … in audiophile terms “rubbish”. They aren’t of course, but that’s not really the point. The point […]
Paul McGowan writes: Reader Barry McCarthy wrote me: “I like reading your quick daily thoughts on the state of our hobby. Today’s post caused me to to think of over abundance and how we live with it. I have a much more modest collection of music (about 400 LPs and 600 CD/SACDs). Recently, as I […]
Harriet Smith writes: For the virtuoso Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, championing the lesser-known composers will always be at the heart of what he does, albeit with a little Rachmaninov and Schubert thrown in ….. Continues HERE
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Paul McGowan: One of our readers made an interesting observation. He writes: “selecting a record, cleaning that record, clamping the record, starting the motor, cleaning the stylus, cueing up the cartridge and sitting down to listen prepared me to listen in a way that a few mouse clicks or screen taps doesn’t. I’d made a […]
We are told: • 15 CDs • Over 200 tracks • 24 page full colour booklet with rare photos and detailed liner notes • The entire original KMET, WMMS, WNEW, KSAN and over twenty more, FM radio broadcasts from explosive 1978 live performances at The Roxy Theater on July 7, The Agora Balroom on August […]
When it comes to evaluating high-end audio equipment whose opinion can you trust? With fewer dealers around it seems we’re left with only the reviewers and they can’t agree on much themselves. What to do? Paul offers some interesting suggestions. Watch Now
Our rooms are as important as our equipment yet only a scarce few of us have the luxury of choosing our room dimensions. Typically we take what we can get within our home and make the best out of it. With our new building in process, we’re heavy into the architectural tasks of designing three […]
We are told: SUPERB “UNPLUGGED” BROADCAST RECORDINGS FROM YOUNG’S SOLO SETS ON HIS 1976 TOUR OF THE US Neil Young took a newly assembled Crazy Horse out on the road in November 1976. The sets performed by Young and the Horse were, by all accounts, raw, dynamic and LOUD! But at each date Neil was […]
Steve Guttenberg writes: It’s a safe bet that your speaker cables don’t look like Nordost’s ultra-flat cables. Founded in 1991, Nordost is a high-technology cable manufacturer using conductor technology that was initially developed for the aerospace industry. Nordost designs and builds all of its audio, digital and video cables in its facilities in Holliston, Massachusetts. […]
It has been said that break-in, the phenomena of equipment improving its sound quality with use, has more to do with breaking in the user’s ears than the kit. I think that opinion is misleading. There is a difference in equipment performance with break-in. Of this I am certain. I can almost always tell when a unit […]