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BLUES: An interview with David Grazian author of Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs

Question: The blues weren’t invented in Chicago, but they were certainly shaped here: urbanized, electrified, and set to a danceable beat. Suppose I want to hear the real stuff, some authentic Chicago blues, and I go to a local blues club. What will I find there? David Grazian: Nowadays a lot of Chicago blues clubs […]

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NAIM: Native Qobuz support comes to Naim Mu-so 2nd Generation Family

Naim Audio, the British hi-fi specialist with 47 years of audio expertise, is delighted to announce native Qobuz support for its Mu-so 2nd Generation family of award-winning wireless speakers. Enabled via a free over-the-air firmware upgrade, the integration will enable seamless access to Qobuz streaming services – including true high-resolution music streaming – from within […]

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SPENDOR: Does moving from S6e to S8e really makes sense ?

Hi folks, quick love goes as quick as it came. This is maybe valid for the most spectacular speakers. First listening of my S6e gave me the impression: they will be sold. Meanwhile I honor it’s true involving midband. Bass is despite it’s dimensions full bodied and nearly perfect for my loft apartment. Bigger stands […]

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SUCKS: Is this why Your Dad’s $300 1980 Receiver Still Sucks?

Steven Stone: Back in the “golden age” of high-end audio hardly a month went by that you couldn’t find and read a negative review in The Absolute Sound or Stereophile which excoriated a particular manufacturer’s newest offering. Nowadays it’s hard to find an equipment review that doesn’t describe its subject in glowing terms. What’s changed? […]

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PATCHING IT UP

Paul McGowan / PS Audio In yesterday’s post I shared with you the fact we’ve made some changes/modifications in Music Room II. I was quite surprised to find reactions to that news varying from outright betrayal, shock and horror, to ‘atta boy’ and everything in between. Thank goodness no one in this crowd has any strong opinions. […]

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BLUES MUSIC: Mississippi Delta Blues

by Reverend Keith A. Gordon Updated July 23, 2017 Perhaps the most influential of the many styles of blues music, Mississippi Delta blues, also called Delta blues, rose out of the fertile agricultural triangle located between Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the south and Memphis, Tennessee, to the north, and bordered by the Mississippi River to the […]

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AUDIO INSIDER

EFFORTLESS: Perhaps one of the keywords describing what I am after in sound quality is effortless.

When a system plays at all levels without ever drawing attention to itself we might say it was without noticeable effort. Years ago when I was deep in design that was perhaps one of the more elusive goals for a power amplifier. Time and again my designs would sound right until the music got loud. The […]

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