Digital Audio & Audiophiles: Convenient and Inconvenient Truths
Digital Audio, streaming and digital downloads, is more convenient than Analog Audio, turntables and records. There’s a reason why I own two Denon DP-300F fully automatic turntables and am proud of it....
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Analog Survey, Part 3: Audio Note UK Arm Three/II & IoI Moving-Coil Cartridge...
Listening to high-end vinyl playback means experiencing music recreated collectively by a turntable system and phono stage. Significant changes in the caliber and character of an analog system can very...
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Small Green Computer: Building A Better Audio System
The Small Green Computers website contains a treasure trove of information on streaming audio. The company sent the following tutorial to Dagogo on the topic: Basic Digital Audio system Basic digital...
View ArticleRoom 323: Behind the Music
Also read Capital Audio Fest 2018: Room 323 – In Through the Out Door At this point, my Capital Audio Fest Room 323 piece has gained a certain degree of notoriety, making it simultaneously famous and...
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PS Audio DirectStream Memory Player and DirectStream DAC Review
PS Audio DirectStream Memory Player/Transport The CD transport would make an interesting business school case study. Its market performance over the years has seemingly had relatively little to do with...
View ArticleOf Railway Gauges and Speaker Cables/Posts: One Size Does NOT Fit All
It is 2018 and the very idea of having to exit the train on the Trans-Siberian Railway between Mongolia’s Ulan Bator and China as neither country can find it in their diplomacy to coordinate their...
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Dream of An Opera 1 – Rhymoi, Music of China
Dream of An Opera 1 Tracks: Side A: 1. Dream of the Red Mansion 2. Mulan 3. Peony Pavilion 4. Madame Butterfly 5. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Side B: 1. The Bramble Hairpin 2. Flowers as the...
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T+A multi source players with Roon
T+A CALA CDR Multi Source Roon Ready player Germany (11/30/2018): T+A, a German audio system manufacturer has announced the addition of two more of its multi source players, the T+A Multi Source...
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Esoteric Sound Rek-O-Kut Trovatore six speed belt-drive transcription turntable
Introduction – A bridge between two worlds for the music enthusiast Rek-O-Kut enjoys a long and storied history in the evolution of turntables for studio, broadcast, and home use. Esoteric Sound are...
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Pro-Ject releases the Ortofon Century
Austria (December 8, 2018): Pro-Ject has launched the Ortofon Century Anniversary-Turntable in celebration of the 100 years jubilee of one of the company’s closest partners, Ortofon. Built on The...
View ArticleNothing but a …
Streamer, you know you are a Streamer Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no! I said Streamer, you’re nothing but a Streamer Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no! I said, “far out,...
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Bricasti Design M21 DAC
Massachusetts-based Bricasti Design’s claim to fame is in the design and manufacturing of professional components for recording studios, its product line comprising the Model 7 Stereo Reverb...
View ArticleSpinning round and round
Hours, days, years were spent listening to records only to find tape cassettes more portable and Compact Discs closer to perfection. Hindsight, as it is, makes me regret so many life choices, but we’ll...
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Audio News: SonicTransporter i5 CD Ripper
Prices: $1,295 – 2TB spinning hard-drive $1,455 – 4TB spinning $1,625 – 8TB spinning $1,495 – 2TB Solid-state drive $1,695 – 4TB SSD $2,195 – 8TB SSD The sonicTransporter i5 CDR (CD Ripper) is a CD...
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Sumiko Rainier and Olympia cartridges Review
Sumiko Rainier During the 1980s I had a Sumiko Talisman S sapphire low-output moving coil cartridge, which was a great match for my Sumiko Premier MMT tonearm. It had a beautiful midrange to go along...
View ArticleA jungle out there?
It’s a jungle out there Disorder and confusion everywhere No one seems to care Well I do Hey, who’s in charge here? It’s a jungle out there – Randy Newman Prominent: standing out so as to be seen...
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VanL Speakerworks Silhouette speaker Review
When I was a young boy, my father, who traveled the world extensively, brought back from Japan a Sony short wave radio the size of a paperback novel. That country made some cool audio electronics back...
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Audio News: Destination Audio Nika Horn launched
Poland (12/25/2018): Destination Audio, manufacturer of the $95,000, 105dB sensitive Vista Horn and a complete tube amplification system that debuted at the 2018 California Audio Show, is launching a...
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Frank “Big Boy” Goudie: Jazz On Three Continents Part 2 of 3, South America...
Also read: Frank “Big Boy” Goudie: Jazz On Three Continents Part 1 of 3, France and Europe 1924-1939 Goudie at Chikito Club. Bern, Switzerland, 1949. Jazzindex. Frank “Big Boy” Goudie (b. 1899...
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Audio News: PureAudioProject Quintet15 Open-Baffle ‘Wall of Sound’
Israel-based PureAudioProject develops and markets open-baffle speaker systems, offering a variety of tweeter designs for its various models. Largest among the speaker offering is the Quintet15...
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