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| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? Agree with all three of your points and I'll add a couple more: the artist gets more money and streaming is too doggone expensive to get high-quality sound. | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” Before you buy any of these really expensive amps, check out the Advance Paris A10 ($2,500) or A12 ($3,700). They have numerous analog and digital inputs, beautifully designed circuitry, including a high-bias setting with which the first several w... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh At first, I was horrified but with a bit of thought, I don't really believe much will change. I believe Bose will leave McIntosh, Sonus Faber and Sumiko pretty much alone unless something drastic occurs. I do think you'll see the McIntosh name and... | |
| Music Hall Classic Turntable Love the Music Hall Classic. However, the built-in phono stage is OK but not great so a better stage might be called for - Moon by Simaudio LP 110 v.2 perhaps. I'd replace the OEM cartridge with an Ortofon 2M Blue or Gorldring E4 in a heartbeat. | |
| No God No! Say it Ain’t So! I don't think Bose will fool with the McIntosh/Sonus Faber lines too much. Yes, they'll probably take over HR and financials but leave R&D and production in Binghamton. There's probably as much (or more) mystique surrounding McIntosh than any ... | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... The audio industry offers nothing for young people to get into the hobby. There are no stepping-stone brands anymore. Manufacturers and many hi-fi enthusiasts consider anything under $3k "affordable." But to a person who just got out of college an... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh After my initial horror, I came to the conclusion it may be better for McIntosh, Sonus Faber and Sumiko to be under Bose's ownership than some vulture capital firm from Dallas. At least Bose is in the audio field. Personally, I think McIntosh has ... | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget Just heard both the Kantas and Sopras this week and compared to B&W's (which I also heard), they are not at all bright. They have a very lovely sound - full-bodied, tight bass, good transient response, silken highs, excellent mids. If I had th... | |
| Reasonably priced preamplifier Rogue RP-1 ($1,795). 12AU7 buffer rounds out sound. Great phono stage if that's important to you. If you want a few more bells and whistles, check out the RP-3, RP-5 and RP-9 | |
| Turntable suggestions for a newbie Are you sure you want to go whole-hog on a turntable right off the bat? Might it not be better to start with something a bit less expensive (but still fine) to "get your feet wet?" For instance, a UTurn Audio Theory with an Ortofon 2M Bronze for ... | |
| VU meters added to Cambridge Audio I have a "Neohipo" amplifier/speaker switching unit w/VU meters. They don't "measure" anything (unlike VU meters on a radio station console or a tape deck), but they are fun to watch.The British, especially the BBC, use peak-level meters, claiming... | |
| The Medical Explanation Of Why You Are Addicted To HiFi Audio During the day and evening, I listen to my not-quite-audiophile-but-far-better-than-mid-fi system. At night, to relax me in bed, I listen to the same music (Classical mostly) on a pocket radio with a 1.5" speaker that's tuned for talk. No, it does... | |
| No More Fake Reviews - So Who’s Gonna Tell Us What To Buy? Regarding the lack of negative reviews: in my case, if I don't like a product for one reason or another, I don't write a review. I have never in my 30 years of writing audio reviews been asked by either publisher for whom I've worked to plug undul... | |
| No More Fake Reviews - So Who’s Gonna Tell Us What To Buy? I review equipment for an online audio zine. I have reviewed gear for 30 years. In that time, I have received exactly two freebies: a pair of Linn interconnects and a set of vibration absorption feet for a turntable. I reviewed the interconnects f... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD I've been into audio since the 1970's so I've seen audio formats come and go . . . and come back again. Every time I travel to a new city, I search out audio and record shops. In every case, the owners have told me the primary group that buys LPs ... |