Anybody had any recent experience with this piece of kit? I’m curious because I used to own one (decades ago). No idea how it would compare to current gear. (the Quad function is, of course, virtually useless). Nice example can be seen here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/24418022952616662/ Explore HERE
Month: June 2021
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For seven summers, Philip and Stephanie Barber, the proprietors of the Music Inn, a rambling, relaxed summer resort outside of Lenox, have been offering their guests panel discussions of jazz and folk music. (…) Complementing these discussions, the Barbers have staged jazz and folk music concerts in their Music Barn (…) During the summer of […]
We are told ….. In February 1994, Marillion surprised many with the release of their dark and sprawling concept album, Brave. This ambitious double album charted at No.10 in the UK, making it the band’s seventh consecutive Top Ten album, a streak that began in 1983 with the group’s debut, Script for a Jester’s Tear. […]
“A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.” Bertrand Russell
Paul McGowan writes: Reviewer Eric Neff wrote a bold comment in his recent review of the BHK 250 in HiFi Plus Magazine. As audiophiles, we sometimes fall into the ‘price equals performance’ trap. We fear being the emperor with no clothes when our friends ask how much we paid and it was, gasp! LESS than […]
Been talking to a few e-mail buddies and have a question that isn’t being satisfactorily answered this far. So…I’m asking the experts on the forum to pitch in. This has probably been asked before but I can’t find any references for it. Can someone explain why one DIGITAL cable (coaxial, BNC, etc.) can sound different […]
Andrew Clements writes: In 1910, Ravel was commissioned by Paris’s Théâtre de l’Odéon to provide the incidental music for a new play by the Lebanese writer Chekri Ganem. It was based on The Romance of Antar, a 12th-century Arabic epic about the exploits of the pre-Islamic poet and knight Antarah ibn Shaddad, and the […]
stereonomono.blogspot.co.uk write ….. The Spatial Expander. Normal stereo is limited to the space between two speakers. Yamaha Spatial Expander extends the sound field out beyond the speakers. This wider sound stage recreates the ambience and spaciousness of a live performance. There is more space between musicians, more depth and richness to the overal sound . […]
CABLE ELEVATORS Permit me, if I may, to offer a different (but not necessarily superior) perspective on this. A few years back, I was invited by a designer of high-end speakers, to visit his development suite in Salzburg, Austria. All expenses paid. Unlimited coffee and cake and so on. An opinion on a new idea […]
My friend, Gordon, sent me a link to a great YouTube video worth watching. It’s about how music has changed and, in the opinion of the presenter, not for the better. You can watch it by clicking here. The program goes into great detail how most of today’s pop music has been reduced from creative […]
Introduced in the mid-nineties to production duo du jour The Dust Brothers, producers of the Beastie Boys 1989 classic Paul s Boutique, Beck brought the pair in to work on the follow up to his 1995 major label debut Mellow Gold. Blending together elements of country, blues, rap and jazz, augmented by months of dubbing, […]
David Byrne’s new solo record, American Utopia, will be released on Todomundo/Nonesuch Records and accompanied by a world tour that will bring a choreographed concert that Byrne has called “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense.” The album includes the track ‘Everybody’s Coming To My House’, […]
Audiophiles constantly worry that not enough young people are entering into the joys and ecstasies of high-end audio. So, what does Paul suggest when it comes to engaging and keeping the younger crowd in high-end audio? Watch Now
Please take a break from alphabetizing your vinyl collection and take this quiz Continues @ http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/how-much-of-a-music-nerd-are-you?utm_term=.dkJP6BZLw#.khPYq3dOr
Paul McGowan writes: We started our series on Class D amps and how they work. We went through the all important input stage but before we get moving, however, quite a few of you wrote me and asked for a better idea of what common mode rejection was and what an amp designer might do […]
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My office door was open last night just before quitting time. I hardly noticed that James from customer service was grinning at me. “So, you still rock out,” he said with a touch of incredulity. And he was right. I had turned up the volume on my little recording studio monitors as the fingers of keyboardist […]
Clear Light’s eponymous 1967 album is one of the jewels of Elektra Records’ 1960s catalogue. A short-lived, much-loved Los Angeles aggregate, the band is best known for including sometime Doors bassist Doug Lubahn and future CSNY and Manassas drummer Dallas Taylor, but Clear Light’s blend of quirky songwriting and psychedelic arrangement has helped make […]
During the British Invasion, there was another Liverpool band topping the charts worldwide. The Searchers had 11 Top 40 hits between 1963 and 1966 in the U.K., including 3 #1s with “Needles And Pins,” “Sweets For My Sweet,” and “Don’t Throw Our Love Away.” They had 8 in the U.S. including their #3 cover of […]
This 3 disc collection celebrates the music of REM across this lengthy time-span, and include two superb CDs containing radio broadcasts of concerts from 1984 and 1989, along with a third disc containing media interviews with the guys from various points across their career. 3CD SET FEATURING CLASSIC R.E.M. BROADCAST RECORDINGS AND INTERVIEW COLLECTION. This […]
Paul McGowan writes: One of my readers asked a very legitimate question: one that is asked on an ongoing basis and it refers to my post about cables. “Help me here. I do believe a roadblock to a broader appreciation of our hobby is the perception that the high-end audio industry is lubricated with snake […]