SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Impact Wrestler of the Week: Minoru Suzuki The NJPW star made his Impact in-ring debut last week, teaming with Impact World Champion Moose and W. Morrissey to beat Eddie Edwards, Matt Cardona, and Josh Alexander. It was cool to see Suzuki in an Impact ring…
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… WrestleMania 38 tickets have been on-sale for nearly a week and though metrics viewed through some lenses are good, some in WWE are disappointed. The Wrestling Observer is reporting that 75,000 tickets have been sold for the two night event in Dallas. According to the…
Impact Wrestling returns tonight with Under Siege from London, Ontario, Canada. The event will feature nearly every championship defended with Impact World Champion Steve Maclin putting his title on the line against PCO in a no DQ match. Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo gets a big test in her latest run as champion as she defends…
The respective Ring of Honor and NJPW TV Champions will be in tag team action as part of Thursday's ROH on HonorClub. Following last week's show, ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe will team with NJPW TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. against former ROH Tag Team Champions Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal. The match was made…
A one-night tournament to crown the inaugural Strong Women's Champion headlines tonight's NJPW Resurgence event. Mercedes Mone vs. Stephanie Vaquer, and Willow Nightingale vs. Momo Kohgo kick off the main card in tournament bouts. The winners will meet in the show's main event to crown the first NJPW Strong Women's Champion. In the semi-main, Will…
The priciest loudspeaker ever to have taken up residence in my listening room was the Akira from German company Tidal Audio (footnote 1), which I reviewed in the November 2018 issue of Stereophile. Designed by Tidal founder and CEO Jörn Janczak, the Akiras cost $215,000/pair! “The sheer resolution of the Akiras continued to astonish me…
Daily Update Latest News: Chris Jericho vs. Adam Cole unsanctioned match set for AEW Double or NothingWWE SmackDown live results: Reigns & Sikoa face-to-face with Owens & ZaynReport: Release date scheduled for AEW Fight ForeverAEW Rampage live results: Blackpool Combat Club vs. Best Friends & BandidoAsuka vs. Zelina Vega added to WWE SmackDown Latest Audio:…
Back in the Dark Ages, loudspeaker design was commonly based on semi-enlightened experimentation, with new enclosure configurations appearing almost monthly in professional and consumer journals. One of those, published in Wireless World in October of 1965, was A.R. Bailey’s transmission line, a long, selectively resistive, folded-and-sometimes-tapered tube that loaded the back of the (woofer) driver…
The Raw Women's Championship match has been confirmed for Night of Champions. WWE revealed on Thursday that Bianca Belair will defend her title against Asuka on the show in a rematch from WrestleMania 39. An angle to set up the match took place on SmackDown last week from Belair's hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. Asuka interrupted…
Finally—a way to get a handle on the sound of Aavik Acoustics electronics. I’d heard the Danish-made components many times at shows, but always in the context of Ansuz Acoustics cables and Børresen Acoustics loudspeakers. As much as the threesome was inevitable—all three companies are owned by Michael Børresen, Lars Kristensen, and a third shareholder—there…
