Suzy Klein finds out – by making a record just as Elgar had done it I’ve loved exploring the last 100 years of music-making in Britain as we’ve recorded Our Classical Century. For this project we wanted to tell a story through our encounters with classical – both public and private – which brought into […]
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Living in our little audiophile bubble means that everything we obsess over seems normal. It isn’t until we step outside the bubble and view our little world through the eyes of an outsider that one begins to realize just how far removed from the crowd we are. Terms that seem obvious and normal to us […]
When my friend, Sandy Gross was responsible for marketing Polk Audio in the late 70s and early 80s one of the challenges he faced was acceptance of the brand as a serious contender. It was a tough challenge. Their competitors were pretty serious people including Dr. Amar Bose, Edgar Villchur, Dr. Sydney Harman, and Henry […]
It doesn’t matter that data traveled through millions of switches, miles of cable, fiber, satellite, coaxial, WiFi, and so on. Once downloaded what sits on your hard drive is absolutely identical to what sits on the master hard drive. Yet, when I playback that file in Octave’s state-of-the-art mix room it will not sound the […]
The free Roon 2.0 update is here, but the bigger news is the release of Roon ARC; a mobile version of the platform that allows you to connect to your Roon Core anywhere in the world. What is Roon? That’s a very good question. For a detailed breakdown of Roon and how it works and […]
ROBERT SILVA writes … The ultimate dorm room hi-fi system? The +Audio +Record Player Special Edition White delivers quite the punch and wireless connectivity. Audiophiles are likely to turn their collective noses up at the mere mention of a product like the +Audio +Record Player Special Edition White system, but that would be a huge […]
As much as our mental faculties like to focus on one thing at a time, the reality is we do not live in a vacuum. Everything affects everything else. When we opt for a new phono cartridge it has a very different electrical and sonic character than its predecessor. We’ll need to readjust the cartridge […]
Sonus faber has announced Arena, the Italian loudspeaker specialist’s flagship custom installation collection, which will make its world debut at CEDIA 2022. Arena combines the heritage brand’s latest ‘Ci-Fi’ (Custom Install Fidelity) technology, combined with the refinement associated with Sonus faber’s artisans. The handmade Arena range combines the company’s signature natural sound with the dynamics […]
Just reading tinternet instead of working and the topic of this thread as just occurred to me . I set my turntable speed with a laser tachometer to two decimal places .However to set it you don’t play a record. I was happy until today. When somebody mentioned a rega running 5% fast wouldn’t matter […]
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Not everything is going to fit you and your particular needs. Yet sometimes we get the wrong cues about the intended audience for a product or service. When that happens, we often blame the product rather than the message. Here’s a silly example. As a vegetarian, I might get excited that a fast food chain […]
Wikipedia describes the Decca Tree as a 3 microphone spaced array most commonly used for orchestral recording. The technique was developed in the early 1950s and first commercially used in 1954 by Arthur Haddy, Roy Wallace, and later refined by engineer Kenneth Ernest Wilkinson and his team at Decca Records, to provide a strong stereo […]