Stephen Mejias

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The Four Seasons with Larry Staples of LSA Group/DK Designs
CES 2006
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 10, 2006  |  16 comments
Sometime near the close of Sunday, when vinyl was being slipped into sleeves and room treatments were coming down, I wandered my way to the end of a hall at the St. Tropez, where I heard such sweet music emanating from the LSA Group/DK Design suite.
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The Funk Firm’s FXR II tonearm
RMAF 2011
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 19, 2011  |  0 comments
Riding the Acoustic Signature Storm ($7500) was the new FXR II tonearm ($1995) by the Funk Firm. Super cool.
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The Future of Musical Instruments
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Stephen Mejias  |  May 18, 2010  |  5 comments
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The Glamorous Side
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Stephen Mejias  |  Apr 01, 2010  |  15 comments
Here we are in Art Dudley’s listening room, preparing to load the Wilson Audio Sasha into the back of John Atkinson’s Land Cruiser. After removing the Sasha’s WATT head unit from its large Puppy woofer cabinet, we carefully tipped the Puppy onto its side, removed the spikes from its bottom plate, installed the dedicated casters in place of those spikes, hoisted the Puppy back into an upright position, and dressed it up in protective Saran-Wrap.
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The Good Life
RMAF 2011
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 18, 2011  |  1 comments
The Tape Project’s Piper Payne enjoys an iced coffee while listening to a Bottlehead headphone amplifier driving AKG K1000 ear speakers—be still, John Marks' beating heart!—and receiving a massage from Bottlehead’s Dan Schmalle.
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The Good News Is
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Stephen Mejias  |  Jun 02, 2009  |  6 comments
Last week, we moved—from the sixth floor of 261 Madison Avenue to the fifth floor of 261 Madison Avenue. The good news is abundant:
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The Good, Old-Fashioned Way
RMAF 2011
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 18, 2011  |  5 comments
As we can tell from Michael Lavorgna’s awesome reporting over at AudioStream, computer audio was very hot indeed at RMAF, but there were still lots of old-fashioned vinyl enthusiasts to be found digging through the old-fashioned crates for old-fashioned music.
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The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Face The Music
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 06, 2007  |  1 comments
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
EMI/Parlophone
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The Hartsfield from Classic Audio Loudspeakers
AXPONA 2011
Stephen Mejias  |  Apr 18, 2011  |  2 comments
Take a look at this beauty, the Hartsfield from Classic Audio Loudspeakers, a tribute to the original Hartsfield, introduced in 1954 by the James B. Lansing Sound Company. In John Wolff’s version, a 15” low-frequency driver couples to a long exponential horn; above 500Hz, a 2” midrange unit couples to a horn-lens assembly, designed to provide wide dispersion and uniform high-frequency sound distribution.

Something about this speaker gets people feeling all romantic. When I walked into the room, I sat down behind a couple whose hands were joined and whose arms swung in the space between their separate chairs, happily and slowly, in time to the music. After they departed, their places were taken by a second couple. This time, however, the woman simply moved her seat as close as possible to her companion’s, creating a virtual love seat, so that the two could hold each other while the music played.

What the hell? Was this a hi-fi show or some sort of love fest?

I couldn’t blame them, though. The system was playing some extremely gorgeous, palm-in-eye-socket piece of violin music, and it sounded sweet, inviting, and nearly rapturous, with delicate, extended highs and easy, voluptuous mids.

Designer John Wolff said something about field-coils and 106dB...

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The Heartbreaking Avid Acutus
HE 2006
Stephen Mejias  |  Jun 06, 2006  |  0 comments
I was fooled into believing that Ryan Adams was in the Mobile Fidelity room. He was telling me he wished I'd steal all of his records and screw all of his friends. This seemed strange, indeed.
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