Focal Chorus 807V loudspeaker Page 2

Focal Chorus 807V loudspeaker Page 2

Readers often ask how I choose components for review. My method is simple: Ninety percent of what I review is gear that has impressed me at one of our Home Entertainment Shows, or new designs from manufacturers whose products I've liked in the past. The remainder are assigned by John Atkinson.

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Focal Chorus 807V loudspeaker

Focal Chorus 807V loudspeaker

Nov 10, 2007

Readers often ask how I choose components for review. My method is simple: Ninety percent of what I review is gear that has impressed me at one of our Home Entertainment Shows, or new designs from manufacturers whose products I've liked in the past. The remainder are assigned by John Atkinson.

45 Years of Stereophile

45 Years of Stereophile

Nov 10, 2007
It was 45 years ago this month that the first issue of Stereophile, just 20 pages in length, went in the mail. It had been founded by one J. Gordon Holt. Gordon had been technical editor of High Fidelity magazine in the 1950s, and was tired of being asked to pander to the demands of advertisers. "I watched, first with incredulity and then with growing disgust, how the purchase of a year's advertising contract could virtually insure a manufacturer against publication of an unfavorable report," he said in a 1974 article looking back at those dark times. And if a company didn't buy advertising, they didn't get reviewed at all. The Stereophile, as it was then called, was Gordon's answer to audiophiles' need for an honest, reliable source of information. "Okay, if no one else will publish a magazine that calls the shots as it sees them, I'll do it myself," he later wrote.

Recording of November 2007: Exodus: 30th Anniversary Edition

Recording of November 2007: Exodus: 30th Anniversary Edition

Nov 10, 2007

<B>BOB MARLEY: <I>Exodus: 30th Anniversary Edition</I></B><BR>
Island 314 586 408-2 (CD). 2007. Bob Marley & the Wailers, prods.; Karl Pitterson, eng.; Guy Bidmead, Terry Barham, asst. engs.; Chris Blackwell, Aston Barrett, Karl Pitterson, mix. AAD? TT: 37:18<BR>
Performance *****<BR>
Sonics *****

Sound off competition

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The Entry Level
Submitted by tebs on

I am new to the forum but has been an avid reader of the magazine...my question to anyone, is there a contest for home audio, similar to the car audio world? Like a sound off competition?
Since there seems to be a lot of experts in the industry, wouldn't it be awesome if there was some type of judging best in class of some sort. Gather up all those with golden ears in one big convention center, & they can probably come up with the best gear for every category they can come up with.

Carla Bley's Lost Chords

Carla Bley's Lost Chords

Nov 10, 2007

It’s a mystery how Carla Bley’s new CD, <I>The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu</I> (ECM), achieves its greatness. Even the word seems too freighted for music so minimal. A scale segues into a simple melody, followed by a straight harmony, some swishes on snare and hi-hat, a bass line that follows an equally simple counterpoint. Yet some quirky gravity holds these strands in magical equipoise, like a Calder mobile.

My New Lab

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by Ergonaut on

Hi Guys - Just to prove I dont have hair like Beetlejuice

As promised, I'm putting my new lab together -- So ELK can have me run tests on fuses and inductive loads...well ....maybe

My intention is to finish the design ideas and development of two mono-blocs I have had thrashing around in my noodle for some time now.

Volume Control for Music Server?

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Tweaks 'n' Tips
Submitted by Rodolfo on

Hey everyone
Yesterday I purchased a pair of 683 b&w speakers and a Decco (DAC + Integrated Amp)and am now using iTunes to play my music. My question is, how should I be controlling the volume in my system? That is, should I be using the PC volume, or the volume on the Decco? I've read various comments about turning the volume on the PC all the way up, turning EQ off, etc. What's the correct way, and is there better software I should be using to play my music (i.e. something other than iTunes)?

Thanks!

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