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Tube Power Amp Reviews
Woodside MA50 Renaissance monoblock power amplifier
Larry Greenhill  |  Aug 26, 2007  |  First Published: Jun 26, 1994  |  0 comments
Brian Tucker, the US Quad importer, introduced me to the Woodside MA50 tube amplifiers and their manufacturer, John Widgery, during the 1992 Summer CES. Tucker's combination of Woodside MA50 tube amplifiers and Quad ESL-63 USA Monitors sounded unusually neutral, dynamic, and detailed. This was good news; back in 1987, Dick Olsher (Vol.10 No.6, pp.104–5) was unable to recommend an earlier Woodside-manufactured amplifier, the Radford STA 25 Renaissance. Brian mentioned that the MA50's design is a much-improved version of that earlier Radford model. Time for another review.
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Solid State Power Amp Reviews
Mark Levinson No.23.5 power amplifier
John Atkinson  |  Aug 26, 2007  |  First Published: Sep 26, 1991  |  0 comments
"A high-quality amplifier must be capable of passing rigid laboratory measurements, meet all listening requirements, and be simple and straightforward in design in the interest of minimizing performance degradation..."—Cdr. Charles W. Harrison Jr., Audio, January 1956 (footnote 1)
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News
Return of the Son of Web Radio
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 25, 2007  |  0 comments
Digital Music Association (DiMA) and Sound Exchange (SX) announced on August 23 that they had reached an agreement to "cap the Internet radio '$500 per channel minimum royalty' at $50,000 per service, signaling the start of productive negotiations and bringing resolutions to three important music industry issues," according to DiMA's press release.
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Tweeter Twists in the Wind
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 25, 2007  |  0 comments
It has been a fraught week for Tweeter Newco LLC, the A/V specialty chain acquired by Shultze Asset Management in July. On August 17, the company trimmed its corporate staff by "half," approximately 80 staffers at the home office in Canton, MA. It was the second corporate re-structuring since January, when 20% of the corporate staff was laid off.
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Microphone Placement Tip
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 24, 2007  |  0 comments
Hint to recording engineers: Anna Netrebko gives it to you in the second sentence of graf 8.
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Modern Art
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 24, 2007  |  0 comments
"I'm an abstract expression," Huckleberry boasts. "Bold, vivid, active—wait, what was that middle thing again?"
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Some Art is Classic
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 24, 2007  |  0 comments
Bagheera opines that you just can't beat the "cute kitty" school of art.
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Game, Set, & Match: Rosen
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 24, 2007  |  0 comments
In 2005, journalism professor Michael Skube wrote an uninformed "think" piece about blogs and blog culture, concluding that bloggers didn't do "real" journalism. (He's probably seen this one.) On August 19 this year, he did what hacks do—he wrote the same piece again, this time for The LA Times.
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The Colonization of Silence
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 23, 2007  |  0 comments
I don't disagree with the need for contemplative silence, but I find our contemprary society particularly ill-suited to it. Perhaps iPods are the cure to noise pollution rather than the problem itself.
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The Eggcorn Database
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 23, 2007  |  0 comments
An eggcorn, as regular readers of The Language Log are aware, is the label given to non-standard reshaping of expressions in common use. Substituting "eggcorn" for "acorn" or "baited breath" for "bated breath," for egg samples.
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