I heard my first genuinely awesome hi-fi through a pair of Tannoy speakers. The 15" Monitor Blacks were installed in wardrobe-sized Siemens cabinets that the owner had wrangled from a decommissioned ...

Recently I learned that a diner in Los Angeles had closed. I felt a pang of regret bordering on loss, even though I'd never set foot in the place. The Copper Penny was the La Brea Avenue greasy spoon ...

Launched in 1967, Quad's highly original, elegantly styled 33 preamplifier and 303 power amplifier were Quad's first all solid state designs and among the first solid state separates. The 303 may have ...

A phono cartridge is a mechanical-electrical thing with a single job: tracking a squiggly spiral groove as accurately as possible and converting that mechanical tracking into an electrical signal.

I.R.S. Records SP70044/Interscope-Capitol Records Definitive Sound Series DSS 16 (LP; auditioned as a test pressing). 1984/2026. Don Dixon, Mitch Easter, prods ...

Behind Bombard are Loïc De Buck and Stijn Dauwe, two friends whose backgrounds include sound engineering, product design, and sales. They spent three years developing the OB1 (€15,000/pair), a ...

I used DRA Labs' MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the KEF Blade Two's frequency response in the farfield, and an Earthworks QTC-40 for the nearfield and spatially averaged ...

Description: Remote-controlled, upsampling, stereo D/A processor with volume control. Digital inputs: 1 AES/EBU on XLR, 2 S/PDIF on coax, 1 S/PDIF on TosLink, 1 USB 2.0 on USB type B connector. Analog ...

It hit me not long ago: I need more Mac in my life! I promptly purchased the current production version of McIntosh Laboratory's time-honored MC275 tubed amplifier, to mate to the Mac C2300 tubed ...

When a loudspeaker is measured, the underlying assumption is that the distance from the speaker to the microphone is significantly greater than the largest dimension of the speaker's drive-unit array.

Description: Stereo, line-level preamplifier with passive, solid state, and vacuum tube output modes and relay-selected resistor arrays for volume control. Inputs: 3 stereo pair RCA (unbalanced), 2 ...

I remember a Saturday morning around 30 years ago, when I just happened to be at Sound by Singer, the New York City audio salon, watching this wizardy German fella named Joachim Gerhard unbox the ...