Plangent – A Better Way to Transfer Analog Tape
Tape-scrape induced wow and flutter are intrinsic to the tape recording process. But you don’t have to listen to piano with vibrato on its decay. Jamie Howarth has a transfer process that vastly reduces these ancient artifacts…
Back to Music
Recording live music is like having an entire orchestra as a selectable source. Back from CES, Steven Stone gets right to the business of making a new recording.
What Speaker Manufacturers Should Learn from Eastman Kodak
The time has come for every speaker manufacturer to think seriously about their future. Kodak’s demise should serve as a cautionary tale…
How Headphone Listening is Different
Headphones are different than speakers. How different? Steven Stone Counts some of the ways…
My Retirement Audio System
If Steven Stone ceased reviewing audio gear tomorrow what gear would he keep? That is the question he mulls over on the second day of the new year. Some old favorites combined with new components make up the stuff he couldn’t live without.