Walking around the golf course, I stumbled on a pair of KEF Blade Two speakers in the middle of a field of rare Porsche 911s!
Each listing-in alphabetical order within classes-is followed by a brief description of the product's sonic characteristics and a code indicating the Stereophile Volume and Issue in which that product's report appeared. Thus the May 2017 issue is indicated as "Vol.40 No.5."
Streaming music isn't new. US companies have been doing it since the 1920s, when it was discovered that multiplexingthe then-new practice of combining multiple signals over a single conductorcould be used to send live or recorded music over public power lines. The first of those companies was Muzak LLC.
File that away.
What ties Luciano Berio's boundary-breaking Sinfonia for Eight Voices and Orchestra (196869) to Pierre Boulez's out-there Notations IIV for Orchestra (1945/1978) to Maurice Ravel's progressively off-kilter La Valse (19061920)? The Seattle Symphony's about-to-depart music director, Ludovic Morlot, cites their "ingenious transformation of pre-existing musical material or styles." I'm also inclined to say that it's their descent into chaos, even madness, which these performances transcend with an impeccably controlled, highly refined aesthetic, which I auditioned in 24/96 2-channel.
