Remembering Magic and Thinking of Voodoo
Roger Skoff looks back a several memorably impossible CES demos…
Noise Has Always Been The Enemy
Steven Stone looks at the primary limiting factor in sonic fidelity…
Part 3 of the Mono Series – No half-dollar? Need to make change?
Here’s the third of a four-part series by Roger Skoff – And now, the latest and greatest thing yet… Mono…
What really matters?
Roger Skoff looks at audio past and present to see where we have come from and where we might be going…
Bootleg Records and Purloined Tapes – A Recollection
Before illegal downloads and file-sharing there were bootleg recordings for the RIAA to chase down. Back then they were almost as successful at bagging pirates as they are today…
Generations
Audiophiles, regardless of their positions on other issues, all agree that the best source is the original master recording. But we rarely, if ever, get to hear a master. So what’s the next best thing?
Mastering – The Final Frontier
Does your CD copy of The Red Hot Chili Peppers new release sound different than the LP release? According to the guys who mastered it, the two versions SHOULD sound different because they were mastered differently…