Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Physical Difference for Solid State and Tube Sound

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Transistor sound vs. tube sound; a controversy that has been explained away by even and odd harmonics. But yet there are also differences in...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Free Television: a Political Commentary

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I remember in 1954 when my dad brought home our first television. Its box was huge, about twice the size of a large microwave, and had a bla...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Six-Cent Trick

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A friend of mine attended MIT is in love with Bose speakers. I personally think Dr. Bose is an amazing marketer with mediocre and overpriced...
Friday, March 9, 2012

The Sampling Rate Debate

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When I heard the first Sony CDP-101 CD player at its debut in 1982, I really had high hopes that it would sound good.  Analog records were a...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Your System's Sound Stage

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When building a recording studio, the room in which the final mix is made has a rigorous design approach called the Live-End, Dead-End conce...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Weakest Link

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Any stereo is like a chain were the entire chain is only as strong as the weakest link. In a high-end system, every component can have ...
Monday, March 5, 2012

I never heard that before...

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What was that?  Listen...there it is...that subtle nuance in that passage...there it is again...WOW! I never noticed that before! Sound fa...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

Streaming

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Yesterday we talked about how long it takes to perfect a new technology so that it starts to sound like music. For 8-track tapes, it never d...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Evolution of the High End, Part 1

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When I was in college, I had a 1972 Honda 600 Sedan, a two cylinder car based on Honda's wildly successful 350cc twin motorcycle engine ...