Month: November 2013

Progressive But Without The Rock In 5.1 Surround

Audiophile Music

Mark Smotroff looks a some classical titles avaialble in surround

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What Ever Happened to Progress?

Analog

Roger Skoff looks at progress and audio and wonders if we are going forward, backward, or just sideways......

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Background Music Devices and Sources

News

Steven Stone comes up with a new audio category that better reflects our modern times than "Mid-Fi"......

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Flamin’ Groovies: Vinyl Replica CDs Are a Shadow Of Original LPs

Audiophile Music

Mark Smotroff finds reissues you should avoid…

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Flamin’ Groovies: Vinyl Replica CDs Are a Shadow Of Original LPs

Audiophile Music

Mark Smotroff finds reissues you should avoid......

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Amara Symphony Adds Impulse Response Correction

Room Acoustics

Steven Stone looks at Amarra Symphony's newest capability which expands it's features into signal and room corrections......

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New Jazz Releases For 11-22-13

Audiophile Music

Paul Wilson finds six new jazz releases from small labels that demonstrate that jazz is alive and well.

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You Do Have To Sweat the Small Stuff

Cables

Are Cables under $40 all you really Need? Nope, not according Roger Skoff, who looks at the folly of using cheap cables......

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Tweaks and Explanations

Cables

Steven Stone looks at a tweak and wonders how it works......

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Close To The Edge in 5.1 Blu-ray Is Pretty Much Perfect

Audiophile Music

Not much in this world is without flaws, but Mark Smotroff finds something…

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DSD and PCM – Horses for Courses

Digital

Which is best, DSD or PCM? How about neither?...

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Nick Drake in 5.1 Surround? Who knew?

Audiophile Music

Mark Smotroff finds Nick Drake in surround.... ...

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Edges

News

Roger Skoff ruminates on the spaces between the music…

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What You See Isn’t What You’d Hear

Room Acoustics

Steven Stone looks at Synergistic Research's 2013 RMAF Demo......

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Nonsuch – Exemplary XTC Sounds Fab in 5.1 Surround

Audiophile Music • 3 Comments

Mark Smotroff gets ecstatic over XTC in surround......

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Grateful for a Great “Box” Set

Audiophile Music

Steven Stone listens a whole bunch of Grateful Dead and likes it…

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Sebadoh’s Defend Yourself : Progressive Bittersweet Indie Rock Confection

Audiophile Music

Want some new pop music? Mark Smotroff's got it......

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The Emperor’s New Ears

Audiophile

Roger Skoff gives a brief history of subjective listening......

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New Releases For 11-06-13

Audiophile Music

Steven Stone looks at new releases from Patty Larkin, Band of Heathens, Noam Pikelny, Peter Cooper, Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott, and Fred Fried.

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Lost Soul Treasures Groove Again On Affordable Reissues

Audiophile Music

Mark Smotroff looks at some soulful reissues......

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