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Wes Phillips
Louis Armstrong "Swinging on Nothing"
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 25, 2006  |  0 comments
Christmas without Pops? Unthinkable!
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Wes Phillips
Christmas Cartoon Extravanganza!
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 25, 2006  |  0 comments
The 50 greatest cartoons of all time? Could be.
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Have you ever built a piece of audio gear? What was it?
Stereophile  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  124 comments

Some of us remember Heathkit and Hafler build-it-yourself audio kits. Others have designed and built their own stuff from scratch, with the pride in ownership that follows. Have you ever built a piece of audio gear? What was it?

Have you ever built a piece of audio gear? What was it?
Yes, here it is
83% (121 votes)
No, never
14% (20 votes)
Tried once, but it didn't work out
3% (5 votes)
Total votes: 146
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Tube Power Amp ReviewsTube Preamp Reviews
PrimaLuna ProLogue Three tube preamplifier & Seven monoblock amplifier
Robert Deutsch  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Everybody loves a bargain. No—make that: Most people love a bargain. Some just want the best, and they don't care about the cost. Some even distrust and reject out of hand any product that's not expensive enough. If you're one of these people, you might as well stop reading this review right now—the PrimaLuna ProLogue Three and ProLogue Seven are not for you. $1395 for a tube preamp? $2695 for a pair of 70Wpc tube monoblocks equipped with four KT88 tubes each? Must be based on old designs in the public domain using cheap parts carelessly assembled...
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Art Dudley ListeningTurntable Reviews
Listening #48
Art Dudley  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  0 comments
People love it when audio reviewers reach for that highest of all compliments: "I enjoyed the thing so much, I decided to keep it" (footnote 1). Manufacturers love it for obvious reasons. Readers love it because nuance is out of style at the moment, and the ambiguities implied by less decisive conclusions can be frustrating to adults who read with their mouths open. Publishers love it because strong, declarative statements have been scientifically proven, in double-blind reading tests, to attract subscribers.
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Audacious AudioCable Reviews
TARA Labs The Zero interconnect
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Let me take you by the hand, and together we'll jump off an audio cliff. I promise a soft landing, though there might be some turbulence on the way down.
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Phono Cartridge Reviews
Rega Apheta MC phono cartridge
Art Dudley  |  Dec 24, 2006  |  0 comments
I see a pattern taking shape: Roy Gandy's Rega Research offered their first CD player in 1996, which was 13 years after the medium was introduced to the public. Now, in 2006, some 50 years after Joe Grado designed and sold the first moving-coil phono cartridges, Rega has released one of those. The year 2016 may see the first Rega fluoroscope, or perhaps wire recorder. And it'll be a good one, I'm sure.
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Labels Sue www.allofmp3.com
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 23, 2006  |  0 comments
A cabal of record labels—including Arista Records, Warner Bros., Capitol, and BMG—have taken legal action against the Russian music site allofmp3.com, charging that the site offers their music without having received permission. The suit, filed in federal court in New York, is only the latest step in the war against the Russian digital download site.
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Sony BMG Settlement Grows Even Larger
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 23, 2006  |  0 comments
Two days after reaching $1.5 million settlements with the states of Texas and California over its knuckleheaded attempt to prevent "unauthorized" use of its CDs, Sony BMG agreed to pay another $4.25 million to an additional 39 states and the District of Columbia in what has become known as "the rootkit debacle."
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Robert Baird
Worse Than A Fruitcake
Robert Baird  |  Dec 23, 2006  |  1 comments
There's almost no gray area when it comes to Christmas music. You either love it and feel it's charming, or it's a holiday plague that you endure, cringing instinctively every time a bell jingles and someone wants a "figgy" pudding.
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