MartinLogan Sequel II loudspeaker

MartinLogan Sequel II loudspeaker

Loudspeaker designers are dreamers. Something takes hold of a man&#151;the fact that loudspeaker designers are <I>all</I> men must be significant&#151;and he wrestles with recalcitrant wood, arcane drive-units, and sundry coils, capacitors, and cables, to produce something which will be individual in its sound quality yet inherently more true to the original sound. An impossible task. Yet if there were to be an aristocratic subset of those dreamers, it would be those who have taken upon themselves the burden of producing <I>electrostatic</I> loudspeakers. For these farsighted engineers, there is no standing on the shoulders of others, there is no recourse to tried and tested combinations of other manufacturers' drive-units. Every aspect of the design, no matter how apparently insignificant, has to be created afresh from first principles. For a new electrostatic design to produce a sound at all represents a great triumph for its progenitor, let alone having it sound musical. And to produce an electrostatic loudspeaker that is also possessed of great visual beauty is indeed a bonus.

Review: Squeezebox Duet vs. Apple Touch Remote App

Introduction

I have been using a Duet for a while and have been happy, but the Remote App for the iPod Touch looked good so I thought I'd give it a go.

Both solutions offer a remote control that displays all of your music.

The Touch offers touch screen and a larger screen. It is also a web browser and much more. Oh, and a portable music player!

Need help from Windows Media Player 11 experts

I just got a Philips NP1100 which among other things streams music files from the users computer. Out of the box it only streams files that can be found in the Windows Media Player 11 library. How can I get WMP11 to add Applelossless and AIFF files to it's library and to play them? Please tell me I don't need to re-incode everything, that's hundreds upon hundreds of CDs.

Blood, Looms, and Blooms

Blood, Looms, and Blooms

Tighten the laces on your Vans and jump on your skateboard, strap on your helmet and hop on your scooter, pump some air into the tires of your cruiser, do whatever you have to do, dudes; Dash, sprint, leap, fly like Olympians to your nearest record shop and lay down the $19.99 for the new Leila Arab album.

Playstation 1 vs. Denon 2910

Hi all, just taken delivery of an Ebay sourced PS1(SCH1002) - Have left it powered up for 48 hours and have been listening for a couple of hours now -easily the best $25 I have spent - apart from the lower output level (just crank up the vol. on the amp!) I am finding it hard to pick any downsides compared to the $1500 Denon
I have applied various Peter Belt treatments to both units (except the PS1 has yet to be put in the freezer) and it (PS1) just sounds as sweet and expansive as it's much more expensive, albeit more convenient rival.

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