Month: January 2012

Plangent – A Better Way to Transfer Analog Tape

Analog

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…

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New CD Reviews Jan 27, 2012

Audiophile Music

Steven Stone looks at six new releases, from Otis Taylor, IIIrd Tyme Out, Gene Watson, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Martin Sexton, and the...

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Why Great-Sounding Speakers Will Never Be Cheap

Reference Speakers

Why do top-tier speakers cost so much? Steven Stone looks at some of the economic realities that make it difficult to manufacture a...

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Back to Music

Digital

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.

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The Gourds and Grisman – Two Great CDs from 2001

Audiophile Music

Here's two more great CDs from 2001 that should be in your music library. Although both were released over eleven years ago, they may have...

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Why CES Sucks and Rules

News

Steven Stone hates and loves CES. Here are a few of the myriad of reasons......

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What Speaker Manufacturers Should Learn from Eastman Kodak

Headphone + Accessory Reviews

The time has come for every speaker manufacturer to think seriously about their future. Kodak’s demise should serve as a cautionary tale…

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New CD Reviews Jan 13 2012

Audiophile Music

Here's Steven Stone's second bi-monthly set of exclusive capsule reviews for Audiophile Review of new and soon-to-be-released albums....

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Headphone Fit – An Apology to B&W

Headphone + Accessory Reviews

Everyone gets in wrong sometimes. Steven Stone's first experience with the B&W C5 earphones was less than an unqualified success due to...

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How Headphone Listening is Different

Headphone + Accessory Reviews

Headphones are different than speakers. How different? Steven Stone Counts some of the ways…

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Two Must-Have Albums from 2001

Audiophile Music

Sherman, set the wayback machine for 2001. Let's revisit a couple of essential albums that should be in every new acoustic music fan's...

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The Wealth Gap in Audio

News

Are $5000 power amplifiers and $50,000 power amplifiers created for the same customer? Of course the answer is no. But we often see them...

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My Retirement Audio System

Amps

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.

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