Indianapolis-based Klipsch is relaunching a new version of its Forte speaker, one of its best-selling of all time. The Forte IV is a member of the Heritage series, the original Forte having made its debut in 1985. The company ceased production of the model in 1996, reintroduced a third iteration in 2017 and now here’s […]
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Apparently … Made the HR100S and HR100s MCS arms in the late 80’s early 90’s, it’s a medium compliance unit featuring a ultra rigid design machined from titanium right from the bearing to headshell as a one piece, features a ceramic gimbal bearings and was designed by Mike Knowles, the Xenon was a slightly cheaper […]
Chris wrote … Today we saw just below 9 hours of daylight we wont see that figure again until the end of January, two months from now. As we enter the tunnel of Christmas and December things become claustrophobic. Most years this would be a time of touring and travel, shopping for presents and staying […]
In 2016 Chris Difford, co-front man of Squeeze and Ivor Novello award-winning lyricist, collaborated with Boo Hewerdine to write Fancy Pants; a musical narrative, (described variously as a Play On Words and a Mid Life Musical). Fancy Pants tells the story of how love comes along later in life to save a formerly famous prog-rock […]
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This 2015 reissue comes in sleek, new packaging, presented in a rigid lift-off 5.5-inch x 5.5-inch box. The 10-disc set features 213 tracks and a full-color booklet with a 47,000-word essay by Stax historian Rob Bowman. The third and final chapter of the definitive collection of the great Memphis soul label Stax focuses on the […]
Our view: Hardly a week goes by without us playing this at least once! allmusic.com writes: Produced by long-term collaborator Hal Willner, Marianne Faithfull’s 19th studio album, Horses and High Heels, sees the ’60s icon revisit eight classic songs from her heyday on her second consecutive covers-heavy album, following 2009’s Easy Come Easy Go. Its […]
Recorded just as the band were hitting the height of their fame in 1981, this is a high quality FM radio broadcast from WMMR FM. The performance was from Emerald City, Cherry Hill, New Jersey on 31st August 1981. 1. Skidmarks On My Heart 2. How Much More 3. Tonite 4. Fading 5. London 6. […]
It is no dark secret that I am involved in producing a new product range. I have been busy lately but had some time to spare to share some of my thoughts… Whilst working on our new range, I have been faced with some dilemmas and have met with some challenges. Many are related to […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan In composing a photograph it’s important to have the point of focus on the subject at hand. A sharp image is what draws the eye to where the photographer wants. When you are dialing in a stereo system, where’s the best point of focus to concentrate on getting right? Voice? […]
I often speak in terms that make a few people nervous. Take for example the notion that speaker cables damage sound quality. To me, this is a fairly obvious notion. Since cables are passive they cannot addanything, but they sure can subtract. When a conduit of sound subtracts from that which was intended to be delivered […]
Here is where you, our readers, can comment on matters of mutual interest. A1: The question is incorrectly phrased: mood does not affect the music which are sounds reproduced by your stereo system which will register on sound analyzing devices the same regardless of you mood (barring you going into a rage and destroying things, […]
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Audio began life in Mineola, New York in 1947 as Audio Engineering for the purpose of publishing new developments in audio engineering. In 1948, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was established and in 1953 they began publishing their definitive, scholarly periodical, the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.[3] Audio Engineering magazine dropped the word “engineering” […]
Here is where you, our readers, can comment on matters of mutual interest. A1: I managed to get a magnificent 3D soundstage, along with pinpoint imaging, from a pair of properly set-up Harbeth – ‘HL Compact’ (now 7ES-3 XD) loudspeakers many years ago in a smallish room. There are certain models within some loudspeaker brands […]
Our good friend Tony Andrews, a dedicated music lover, a deeply knowledgeable but completely unpretentious authority on certain types of Jazz, both live and recorded and an all-round decent bloke wrote this. Tony, we all thank you for this. Being as I am a devotee of real music one issue seems to get to me […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan And continuing our thought from a recent post, only this time in reverse, isn’t it obvious that just because something has all the right stuff it doesn’t necessarily qualify as great itself? And doesn’t this observation help explain one of the age old mysteries in audio about how something can […]
Paul McGowan writes: The easiest way to picture how a bipole loudspeaker is configured is to imagine two full range Monopole speaker boxes back-to-back. Sound comes out of both the front and the back of the combined boxes in this configuration and, if you connect them in-phase (red to red and black to black) you […]