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Listening #166
They don't make 'em like they used to. That aphorism has few fans among people shopping for cancer drugs, contact lenses, GPS receivers, and laptop computers, all of which seem to get better with each...
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Listening #167: Auditorium 23 Hommage Cinema loudspeaker
Keith Aschenbrenner, proprietor of Auditorium 23, based in Frankfurt, Germany (footnote 1), has long been associated with the people and products of Shindo Laboratory: From the early 1990s until the...
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Listening #168: Ortofon SPU #1S phono cartridge
I'm a progressive who enjoys the company of his conservative friends, a Catholic who's thankful for his atheist friends, and a carnivore who cherishes his vegetarian friends. I'm also a vintage-audio...
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Listening #169
On a bright, warm day in September, at the memorial gathering for our colleague Wes Phillips, I overheard John Atkinson, in pre-ceremony conversation, discussing men's fashions: "What's popular these...
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Listening #170: Audio Origami UniArm
My first attempt at writing this piece began with a list of the Top Ten Audio Products I Wish Were Still in Production. Unfortunately, that proved unworkable. Although some of my selectionsthe Audio...
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Listening #171: Bob's Devices Sky 40 transformer
In contrast with such line-level source components as DACs and CD players, record players generate a lower-voltage signal that requires extra gain from either a standalone phono preamplifier or the...
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Listening # 172: Music First Audio MC Step Up 632, Vinyl Cleaner Pro
Before I revert to form and leave the subject for another nine or ten months, I'll pick up where I left off in last month's column to focus once again on step-up transformers (SUTs) for moving-coil...
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Listening #173
The first time I saw Thomas's Sandwich Size English muffins on the shelves of my local supermarket, I thought, This is it: the English muffin has now been perfected, and I need never buy another kind....
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Listening #161
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.Robert Frost Perhaps it was different for other audio hobbyists in other parts of the world, but to this American, the Naim...
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Listening #162: Tavish Adagio phono preamplifier
Though Westchester County, New York, seems a likelier locale for Bikram yoga studios, pet psychologists, and pricey restaurants specializing in "grain bowls" and fermented vegetables, the idea of...
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Listening #163
One Everything makes a difference. Everything. File that away.Two There are two kinds of good sound: good sound sound and good music sound. While I could describe the distinction in few words or many,...
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Listening #164: Luna Cables
I should have seen this coming: Less than a year after the last time I railed against the darkness of cable reviewingthe indignity of crawling around behind my equipment rack, the tedium of comparing...
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Listening #165
Fifteen years ago, when I was the Editor of Listener, I wrote a response to a reader's letter in which I repaid unpleasantness with unpleasantness: something I justified by flattering myself that my...
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Listening #166
They don't make 'em like they used to. That aphorism has few fans among people shopping for cancer drugs, contact lenses, GPS receivers, and laptop computers, all of which seem to get better with each...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Listening #167: Auditorium 23 Hommage Cinema loudspeaker
Keith Aschenbrenner, proprietor of Auditorium 23, based in Frankfurt, Germany, has long been associated with the people and products of Shindo Laboratory: From the early 1990s until the EU's 2006...
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Listening #168: Ortofon SPU #1S phono cartridge
I'm a progressive who enjoys the company of his conservative friends, a Catholic who's thankful for his atheist friends, and a carnivore who cherishes his vegetarian friends. I'm also a vintage-audio...
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Listening #169
On a bright, warm day in September, at the memorial gathering for our colleague Wes Phillips, I overheard John Atkinson, in pre-ceremony conversation, discussing men's fashions: "What's popular these...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Listening #170: Audio Origami UniArm
My first attempt at writing this piece began with a list of the Top Ten Audio Products I Wish Were Still in Production. Unfortunately, that proved unworkable. Although some of my selectionsthe Audio...
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Listening #171: Bob's Devices Sky 40 transformer
In contrast with such line-level source components as DACs and CD players, record players generate a lower-voltage signal that requires extra gain from either a standalone phono preamplifier or the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Listening # 172: Music First Audio MC Step Up 632, Vinyl Cleaner Pro
Before I revert to form and leave the subject for another nine or ten months, I'll pick up where I left off in last month's column to focus once again on step-up transformers (SUTs) for moving-coil...
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