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Finishing a Panel
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 30, 2008  |  1 comments
This precision sander puts the lovely exterior finish on the Anat's panels. Yes, the machine does the grunt work, but factory manager Roger Wertz supervises the entire time with his hand on a deadman's switch.
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Crossover
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 30, 2008  |  3 comments
It's an acoustic fourth-order Linkwitz-Riley, crossing over at 1.75kHz, if you're keeping score at home.
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The Other Side
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 30, 2008  |  0 comments
More crossover naughty bits.
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Anechoic Chamber
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 30, 2008  |  5 comments
YGA gets its open air measurements by lifting the speaker under measurement away from that pesky floor boundary with a forklift.
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PSB Launches "Imagine" Loudspeakers
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 28, 2008  |  0 comments
PSB came to New York in late July to debut its new line of loudspeakers, giving journos an advance peek at them before the official launch at the CEDIA Conference in early September. Paul Barton, showing a lot of emotion for a normally reserved Canadian, was frankly in love with the four new loudspeakers.
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KEF Reference 201/2 loudspeaker
Stand Loudspeaker Reviews
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 24, 2008  |  0 comments
In the waning days of 2007, I delivered some small audio doohickey to John Atkinson one weekend afternoon. "Come down to the listening room," he said. "I want you to hear something."
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Bel Canto e.One S300iu integrated amplifier
Integrated Amp Reviews
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 28, 2008  |  0 comments
After using Bel Canto's e.One DAC3 with the McIntosh Laboratory MS750 music server, I was so impressed that I wanted to hear Bel Canto's CD transports as well. But willing as Bel Canto president and CEO John Stronczer was to supply me with a CD-2, he suggested I audition the S300iu ($2195, footnote 1).
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Pratchett and Gaiman: Together Again
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Wes Phillips  |  Jun 17, 2008  |  0 comments
At Waterstone's website, Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett. If that isn't enough to whet your interest, the interview is accompanied by excellent Paul Kidby illustrations.
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Louis Armstrong's Mix-Tape Art
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Wes Phillips  |  Jun 16, 2008  |  0 comments
When I visited The Louis Armstrong Archives a few years ago to visit archivist Michael Cogswell, Cogswell escorted me back into the stacks to show me Armstrong's collection of 650 open-reel tapes, almost all of which sported collages assembled by the great trumpeter. More than touching his trumpet, I felt a direct connection to Armstrong viewing (and hearing) his mix tapes—Satchmo was one of us!
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"Making Available": It's All Over—or Is It?
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Wes Phillips  |  Jun 15, 2008  |  0 comments
On June 11, Recording Industry vs the People, Ray Beckerman's popular blogspot site covering the recording industry's ongoing series of litigations, revealed that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had voluntarily and "without prejudice" filed a motion on May 27 to dismiss its ongoing complaint, Warner v Cassin, which maintained that posting files to a peer-to-peer network was distribution of those files, whether or not actual distribution occurred. This is known in copyright law as "making available."
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