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DPT: Three Critical Steps To Maximize Musical ...
It was about 7 years ago. I was voicing a system to his room for a Get Better Sound owner. Not sure if I had started calling these sessions RoomPlay yet. Anyway, he had...
It's a Lonely World
I didn’t set out to be a hired gun, but it occurred to me pretty quickly that this was the likely path to earning a living — either that or...
All I Want For....
If you could ask for one piece of vintage gear that you once owned and regret getting rid of—get it back again, crisply new and fully functional, neatly wrapped with...
Purer, More Perfect Sound
I have spent a lot of time focusing on the Red Book standard of CD Audio, which calls for 16-bit data at a 44.1kHz sample rate. In doing so, I...
The Sounds of Christmas: Batteries Not Included
I grew up on Ash Drive in suburban Connecticut. When you hit Thanksgiving you started thinking about Christmas. Today they’re running Christmas ads starting just after the 4th of July. In...
Shinola Audio
The name Shinola is most familiar as part of a common expression—which I’m sure you know. As often happens over time, the inherent sense of that expression has become lost (as in...
SET in Carolina
The speakers are Tidal Contriva Diacera-SE speakers, sitting on Symposium platforms. The amps are Chalice Audio “Grail” SET (Single-Ended Triode) mono-blocks. The amps are 1 of only 2 pair in...
Berlioz for Christmas
And Liszt for the New Year! Here we go. Hector Berlioz (1803–69) was no novice by the time he created L’enfance du Christ. Well past the sensational premiere of the Symphonie fantastique and his...
Why Do We Do ...
Aside from the fact that it sounds like the chorus of an unreleased Sinatra flop,I think the title presents an interesting question. Why bother? What is it that drives people...
Objective? Subjective? Who Cares? Part 2
Part 2: Testing 1, 2, 3. Forget the stories and debates about “objective testing,” or its failings, that you read about in consumer magazines or hear about on audio internet...
Japanese Garden
While visiting HiFi shops in Japan we took a day off to enjoy the magnificent gardens high in the misty mountains. iPhone 6