It takes a while for audio-related technologies to mature. Tubed amplifiers were invented by Lee de Forest in the nineteen-teens, but while there are still some adherents of early high-distortion triode designs, the age of mainstream high-fidelity amplification dawned with higher-power/lower-distortion amplifiers developed by Williamson and McIntosh followed by the Ultralinear take on the Williamson…
Click:ERP System VendorOne summer in the mid-2000s I purchased a pair of Cambridge Audio components for my red-headed, tango-dancing Texas girlfriend. She quickly saw through my ruse to install some solid hi-fi in her New Jersey home away from home—but eventually she acquiesced, and soon Michael Martin Murphey (she), the Beatles (me), and Miles Davis…
The night before I started to write this review, PBS began a five-part series on computers called “The Machine that Changed the World.” The first episode described the development of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Accumulator), the first electronic computer. The ENIAC used 18,000 vacuum tubes, had over 500,000 solder joints, required a room…
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania–based hi-fi dealer Now Listen Here is holding a real, live, non-Zoom event this coming weekend, September 26 and 27, 2020, at the Hyatt House in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, next to the King of Prussia mall. Jeff Joseph of Joseph Audio will be in attendance, demonstrating the Joseph Audio Pearl 20/20 Graphene loudspeakers….
Despite one website’s recent claim that “Vinyl’s Revival Is Already Fading,” Nielsen SoundScan recently announced that vinyl sales for the first half of 2018 were up 19.2% over 2017, led by Jack White’s Boarding House Reach, with 37,000 copies sold so far (and we know that N/S misses a great deal of the action). While…
Click:NBA 直播One privilege of being a Stereophile columnist is the opportunity to cover products from smaller, less well-known manufacturers, including those that don’t have wide enough distribution to qualify for a full review. One such company is Victorville, California–based Paradox. I’d never heard of them until I received an email from Terence Robinson, the company’s…
The text, from Gary Bruestle, a speaker-positioning wizard at Definitive Audio in Seattle, left my mouth watering: “Have you heard the Apex version of a Rossini or Vivaldi yet? It’s stunningly good. Addictive, even. … I usually have a hard time relaxing and listening to music in the showroom, but the Rossini Apex DAC had…
Powerhouse Hobbs will defend the TNT title for the first time as he faces Rey Fenix on Friday's St. Patrick's Day Slam edition of AEW Rampage. Fenix answered Hobbs' open challenge on Wednesday after Hobbs defeated Wardlow for the title last week. The show will air late on Friday night following NCAA men's basketball tournament…
C'est quoi le pire film de la carrière de Franck Dubosc ? À l'occasion de la sortie en salles de Noël Joyeux, focus sur son long-métrage le moins bien noté selon les spectateurs AlloCiné. Franck Dubosc, qui a récemment fêté ses 60 ans, est en ce moment à l’affiche de Noël Joyeux, une comédie feel-good…
Sorti en 2019 et diffusé ce dimanche soir sur France 2, le reboot de la franchise Men in Black, baptisé "Men in Black International", a connu une production très houleuse et tendue, sanctionnée par un échec assez saignant en salle… Sorti en juin 2019, le reboot de la franchise Men in Black, baptisé Men in…
