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Manley Labs Appoints New Sales Manager
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 27, 2005  |  0 comments
Manley Laboratories, Inc. has appointed Albert Schippits as its hi-fi division's national sales manager. While Manley Labs has maintained a presence in the consumer high-end market since its 1988 launch, the company's energies have often seemed more focused on its successful line of professional studio equipment, such as its tube preamps, compressor/limiters, and equalizers.
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iTunes Becomes Seventh Largest Music Retailer
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 27, 2005  |  0 comments
At stereophile.com, John Atkinson, Jon Iverson, and I troll the Internet constantly looking for audio-related news, so on November 21,when I spotted an article by John Borland about iTunes outselling traditional retail record outlets like Tower and Borders, I passed it on to the other two without even thinking about it.
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Balanced Audio Technology VK-3iX preamplifier & & VK-55 power amplifier
Robert Deutsch  |  Nov 26, 2005  |  0 comments
It's been 10 years since Balanced Audio Technology (BAT) introduced their first products: the VK-5 line-stage preamplifier and the VK-60 power amplifier. (I reviewed both in the December 1995 Stereophile, Vol.18 No.12.) The success of these and other BAT products has allowed designer Victor Khomenko (the "VK" of the model designations) and partner Steve Bednarski to quit their day jobs at Hewlett-Packard; they were joined by Geoff Poor as a partner to handle the sales end of the enterprise. BAT's current lineup includes several preamps, phono stages, a CD player, and tube as well as solid-state amplifiers. The top of BAT's preamp range is the VK-51SE, which costs $9000; their top tube power amp is the VK-150SE monoblock ($17,000/pair); if you want their best phono stage, the VK-P10 will set you back $8000.
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Subwoofer Reviews
Genelec HTS4B subwoofer
Larry Greenhill  |  Nov 26, 2005  |  0 comments
Home theater has dramatically influenced the design of aftermarket subwoofers. Multichannel processors automatically provide a properly filtered low-frequency signal to drive a subwoofer, relieving the need for the sub to be shipped with a passive crossover network or an active electronic crossover. When Genelec offered one of their subwoofers for review, I decided it was important to try to evaluate such a product, even if it meant I'd have to scramble around to find a quality external electronic crossover.
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Art Dudley Listening
Listening #35
Art Dudley  |  Nov 26, 2005  |  0 comments
"It's rather warm in here."
—violinist Mischa Elman, at Jascha Heifetz's Carnegie Hall debut
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Music in the Round
Music in the Round #15
Kalman Rubinson  |  Nov 26, 2005  |  0 comments
In the past few installments of this column I've promised to talk about another subwoofer equalizer system. Now I'm going to pull the old switcheroo and discuss a different subwoofer EQ. The SMS-1 is a new, standalone digital equalizer system from Velodyne, based on the EQ built into their DD-series subwoofers. Larry Greenhill went gaga over the Velodyne DD-18 in the June 2004 Stereophile, particularly because of the ease and sophistication of the EQ system. Apparently, one of the Velodyne sales guys asked the obvious: What about making the EQ available separately for use with other subwoofers?
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Friday Cat Blogging, Part Two
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 25, 2005  |  1 comments
"You know I hate it when the system's not warmed up!"
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Friday Cat Blogging, Part One
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 25, 2005  |  0 comments
Bagheera digs retro-fi.
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How to Have a Number One the Easy Way
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 25, 2005  |  0 comments
The Justified Ancients of Mumu tell you how to be on top of the charts.
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404 Error: Not Found
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 25, 2005  |  1 comments
Ever wonder what the heck that meant? Wonder no more.
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