RMAF 2016: Friday Afternoon with Herb
The inside of the Brinkmann Nyquist is beautiful, like a jet fighter
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RMAF 2016: Ascending to Floor 5
Before me, the name Auralic. Inside the room, that company's new Polaris wireless streaming amplifier ($3800), paired with Ryan R630 loudspeakers ($5000/pair)
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RMAF 2016: More Marvels on the Marriott Mezzanine
Peachtree's David Solomon, operating an iPad while jacked up on enough caffeine to enable a mouse to fly to the moon on its own steam, seemed caught by surprise as non-industry showgoers appeared in his room during the time reportedly reserved for the press.
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RMAF 2016: Day 1 with Jana
The first seminar of the dayand the showwas Affordability: How Low Can You Go?
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RMAF 2016: Herb's Friday Morning
My brain began to spin, wondering how the thing actually works. What keeps the record on the platter? What keeps the tonearm on the record?
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RMAF 2016: Day 1 Liftoff
On Friday morning at 9am, the blogging team of (left to right) yours truly, John Atkinson, Herb Reichert, and Jana Dagdagan gathered for a strategy meeting
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Dealer events in Cambridge & Canada Thursday
Thursday, October 13, 68pm, Blink High End (129 Franklin Street, Cambridge, MA)02139) is presenting an evening with Raidho, Aavik,and Ansuz and from 5:308pm: Trutone Electronics (980 Dundas Street East, Mississauga, Ontario) will host a computer audio seminar hosted by AudioQuest, featuring how to successfully use a computer as a high-performance media source.
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RMAF 2016: Day 0 with Jana (and John Jameson)
Somehow, the conversation started to lean toward the topic of whiskey
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RMAF 2016: Herb's Wild West Preview
I flew to Denver in a tin can
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Suffering and Celebration in Glorious SACD Sound
Not having listened to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6, aka the "Pathétique," in quite some time, I had forgotten how heart-tugging beautiful it is. While there are many recordings of the work, few can possibly sound as good and feel as right as the new hybrid SACD from Channel Classics with Iván Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Due out October 7, when it will also be available for download in high-resolution format from nativedsd.com, the recording also enlists the fine Brno Czech Philharmonic Choir for its atmospheric pairing, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances.
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