Talking points include even/odd-order THD, active/passive bass traps, active xovers, DAP + tubes, fast ‘n’ loose facts, cassettes on the go again. Tune in as John and I cover these and more topics… |
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THD. Short for total harmonic distortion, its measurements show how much harmonic artifacts hifi components inject. It’s a complex subject with a math aspect. As an Irish country bumpkin, I give you the super-lite version. First we need to understand… |
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Some gals dig broad shoulders. Some guys are done in by long legs. These days accessories get me hot under the collar… |
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Classy warfare. A, A/B, D. Silicon Mosfets vs GaNFets. Ethernet copper vs fiber optics. Ball bearings vs viscoelastics. Dynamics, planars, electrostats and AMT vs ribbons… |
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MSG is one of the most misunderstood kitchen flavorings. It was invented in 1907 by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda who boiled down cubits of kombu seaweed to extract glutamate… |
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I’m a worthless piece of shit. Please let me in… |
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Peeling Tom? This time he’s not peeping but peeling; down to the bone. And there’s two of ’em. What am I on about? |
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Case closed! Is it, really? |
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This exploded Audeze graphic from their cookbook of planarmagnetic driver design shows symmetrical push/pull magnets… |
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It’s not short for full-metal clank but fibre media converter. It’s how you can pimp out your router… |
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Numbers. If you’ve been to a classical concert, you’ll have heard the first oboe play a non-vibrato A4 to which all other instruments in the orchestra tune themselves… |
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Swiss Made. Although chatting with audio designers of non-conformist hardware is essential to appreciate it fully, nothing beats… |
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C-Wave. Non-switching Continuum Processing. Ironless motors… |
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Oskar Heil protegé. Ongoing AMT developer at first ADAM now HEDD – for studio/home speakers and headphones. For that CV, we call on Klaus Heinz and his Heinz Electrodynamic Designs. When he first bowed the original HEDDphone… |
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August 10, 2011. A year past my September 2010 review of Voxativ’s original Ampeggio… |
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Mark Levinson gets UK citizenship. Of sorts. His company Daniel Hertz just signed… |
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Southend On Sea, Essex. It sounds picturesque. It’s where… |
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From Dune to done in $3’295/pr? That’ll be… |
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When Jarek Waszczyszyn’s press release for today’s Fram Arte hit… |
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The art of the steal. Press releases are all about stealing eyeballs; the more the merrier. So there’s… |
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Audite’s bite… |
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Anachrophilia. Love of spiders? That’d be arachnophilia. Close but no web… |
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The canton of Reference, 2023. It’s not the latest Swiss county; nor its swankiest zipcode. It’s Canton’s new 8-deep Reference range which dropped at this year’s Munich show… |
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No woman no cry; no hifi no sound. When it comes to enjoying music playback… |
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It wasn’t a quad bike for a son of anarchy with revoked driver’s license. It was a quad of review wobbles. The first wheel that came off… |
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Help! If you’re a new hifi manufacturer in the shits; or want to avoid them at all costs… |
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INS for insular? I ‘knew’ the emailer; which is to say, I’d reviewed his products. Now he asked whether I could help with a letter of recommendation for the American immigration and naturalization services… |
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For about a year Ivette had suffered a worsening clogged-up ear… |
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Dawid does Munich. Day One finished. Day Two wrapped. Done. |
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Show preview. At 145 entries deep, our teaser listing of what to see and hear in Munich just completed. Enjoy! |
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Ever since Steve Jobs’ carefully orchestrated product reveals, I remain curious how hifi companies adapt the recipe for their own YouTube versions. Here are three… |
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Had TNT just blown up one of my review shipments from the UK? The Irish Sea is quite narrow. You’d not think that… |
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Jaded jaundice jammed up? Some color commentary on a divisive subject… |
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Axxess is the fourth brand in the Audio Group Denmark family of Ansuz, Aavik and Børresen. Axxess will consist of… |
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A few sweet arguments against salty overpriced ‘audiophile’ servers; for local files only. If you buy music to own and support its creators with more than fractional cloud-streaming cents, you don’t need… |
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Cable risers or lifts. They give engineers the fantods and audiophile critics perfect ammunition to indulge in ridicule. I couldn’t care less. I use… |
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In late 2019 I visited Denmark’s Aalborg to learn about Audio Group Denmark and its brands Aavik, Ansuz and Børresen. Fast forward to early 2023 when I was invited once more… |
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As the world’s only country with the proper URL extension for our hobby, Finland aka dot.fi is home to Hypostatic and their current Blackbird model. That’s a… |
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Audiophile slang, translated… |
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The emailer was Jeffrey Jenkins of Carbide Audio LLC. “We just released an updated version of our footer called the Evo… |
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You too? Lumin’s U1, a pure streaming transport from ~2015, just hit the reset button. Voilà, the U2 successor with all-new processor, linear power supply, fiber-optic and dedicated USB⇒DAC ports plus PCM768 and DSD512 routing… |
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The word ‘cardioid’ already made many rounds in our pages circling Martin Gateley’s sound|kaos subs and prior to those, subs or bass systems from Bastanis/Zugspitz, Cygnus, Ecobox, ModalAkustik and Voxativ. We also heard it with the Silent Pound Challenger, Kii Three/BXT, a master tuning for Buchardt’s A700 and finally… |
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I’m skint. adjective. pertaining to being poor, out of money or broke. British in origin, it derives from ‘skinned’. “I’m way too skint to go drinkin’ tonight.” From my recent news post: In the UltraFi Olympics, Denmark just unleashed a whole team of Ansuz challengers spanning flagship cables and power distributors… |
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Adidas loses NY trial against Thom Browne over three-stripe design. That was the headline of… |
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12 for inches, D for dual. Voilà, the next chapter in Martin Gateley’s exploration of music’s Mariana Trench… |
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In hifi, anything not the signal which somehow arrives at the ear is distortion. In this context, the signal is what’s measured on an oscilloscope. What kind of dead-obvious distortion… |
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Get syng’d up three ways. With Syng’s Cell Alpha, you can. Inside the truncated sphere, this fully class D active omni… |
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Winning. The word could recall actor Charlie Sheen’s tiger-blood period when winning, $50K professional goddesses and cocaine crashed. For me it recalls… |
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En plein air. It’s French for outdoor painting. Now Airplain is Swiss for active speakers with… |
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Knuckleheads; dense enough so nothing penetrates. If true about nothing getting in, nothing should leak out either. Speaker cabinetry enjoys its own variants; boxes so inert that nothing gives. Internal air pressures incite no mechanical response. Welcome to what’s thought of as dead boxes… |