Digital
Geek Pulse Round 2 Closing Soon
What’s this? Another post about the Geek Pulse? Didn’t that end a month ago? Well, yes it did. This, however, is a notice that the second round is about to close down. Did you miss out last […]
Month: January 2014
Publishers Desk
Music, Mind and Meaning
About a million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the mega-continent, I was a PhD student at the University of Maryland, studying Philosophy. Yes, Philosophy. And no, I had no plans to open a “Philosophy and […]
Audio-Life
Fritz Reiner leads on Iberia, or, My Christmas Present
by Darryl Lindberg This story is about my wonderful Christmas gift. I can tell you right now it wasn’t gold (damn), frankincense, or myrrh—although I’ve found you can never have enough myrrh. It didn’t come […]
Loudspeakers
Review: Opera Callas Loudspeakers
by Brian Hunter At first look, the Callas bookshelf-style speakers ($5,000/pair) by Italian-based Opera Loudspeakers should grab your attention. Grill on or off, black leather can be seen covering the front faceplate and a fine […]
Music
MOG Shutdown Announced (Updated)
It seems that the options for streaming music are down a man — or will be by mid-April when the audiophile darling MOG will take its final curtain call. Beats Entertainment, which purchased MOG a […]
Headphones
Audio360.org Digs the Woo Audio WA7 Fireflies
A syndicated article from Audio360.org by amos barnett, warren chi, michael liang, kevin venable & ethan wolf Remember your first kiss, a new puppy wagging its tail at you, the opening notes of your favorite song, […]
Publishers Desk
How much is too much?
In this month’s “Records To Die For” at Stereophile, I was struck by a few things. One, almost no new music pops up in there. Why is that? Two, sound quality rarely takes a back seat to […]
Components
Merrill Audio Veritas | Review
The Veritas monoblocks from Merrill Audio ($12,000/pair) are the latest audiophile darlings, and represent the current SOTA around Class D amplifier technology, sporting as they do the new Hypex Ncore 1200 modules. The modules have […]
CES
Deranged lunatic spotted on Enjoy The Music TV
Steven Rochlin, of Enjoy The Music, has a new video up on EnjoyTheMusic.TV. I apologize, in advance, to all concerned.
CES
More on the new Pass Labs Dot-8 Series
From the CES Press Release. Figured it was just easier to copy the thing instead of summarizing it. Prices and availability have been appended, below. Note also that the Dot-5 amplifiers will remain in the […]
CES
CES 2014: What’s Up?
I’m not going to CES this year. Sorry. Couldn’t do it. It’s not that I didn’t want to go. I did (God help me), and still do! It’s a lot of fun, there’s a ton of new […]
Headphones
Sub-$500 Closed-Back Headphones: AKG K551, V-MODA M100, Spider Audio Moonlight, Mr. Speakers Mad Dogs, Alpha Design Labs H118, Focal Spirit Pro
by John Grandberg “Why headphones?” It’s a question I hear often. I’d like to start by pointing out that headphone listening is in no way exclusive – I know many headphone enthusiasts who also have […]