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The Entry Level
Submitted by MarkBryston on

One thing that always stuck in by craw was when reading Stereophiles Recommended components issues and after reading about the Bill Gates systems you read..."there are no class C recommendations"...or "There are no class D recommendations"....WHY not???? The analog stuff really gets me....there are NO Carts that are class D? or maybe one or two phono preamps???

Update on the laser light room tweak.

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The Dead Zone
Submitted by Buddha on

As you may recall, NFS Audio had created a room tweak wherein laser light of a certain frequency was used to make the air in the listening room more 'coherent' and thereby more effectively couple the speaker/air interface and improve sound quality.

Also, the more 'coherent air' in the room iteself becomes a better conductor of sound, with less 'air induced' distortion products added to the music signal once it leaves the speaker.

Refresher image...

If you look closely, you'll see how well it makes the speakers 'vanish!'

So, I was walking through the forest, and heard a tapping coming from underneath a large flat rock..

Submitted by Buddha on

I was taking a stroll along a pleasnt forest path and heard a steady "tap tap tap" coming from underneath large, flat rock near the base of an old ash tree.

I looked all around the rock, but couldn't find the source of the sound.

Conditioned as I am from such rambles with my sons, whose interest in wildlife echoes that of my own childhood, I bent down and lifted one end of the rock, hoping to catch a glimpse of some exotic creature or another: perhaps a delicate ring-necked snake, or a plasticky-looking red eft.

Bo Christensen

Bo Christensen

Aug 21, 2010 First Published:Feb 21, 1999

Bo Christensen, who was the guiding light behind, first, Primare, then Bow Technologies, graduated as an architect&#151;not surprising, considering his products' drop-dead-gorgeous looks. I talked with Bo while preparing my review of his Bow Technologies ZZ-Eight CD player (see <I>Stereophile</I>, August 1998, Vol.21 No.8), and started by asking him if his knowledge of electronics was self-taught.

Phono interconnects

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Tweaks 'n' Tips
Submitted by Freako on

Having experienced a vast improvement in replacing my old phono interconnects lately, I am rather curious as to whether anyone of you guys have done the same, or if you still play through the standard ones that came with the turntable.

If you have changed cables, to what brand? Special RCA's? What is your opinion on the new cables vs the standard/old ones?

Fred Hersch's Whirl

Fred Hersch's Whirl

Aug 20, 2010

Fred Hersch, one of the top handful of jazz pianists on the scene, spent several months in a coma last year, owing to complications from HIV, with which he’s been living for well over a decade. When he emerged, he had to teach himself how to play piano all over again—not the technique, but the reflexes, the timing, the coordination—but you wouldn’t know it from <I>Whirl</I> (on the Palmetto label), his first album since the return.

Cubicle Life

Cubicle Life

Aug 20, 2010

<a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/moving/">The move</a> is going fairly well. I’m almost completely settled in. I didn’t feel like waiting for the movers, so I just moved myself. Because all Source Interlink employees at 261 Madison Avenue will now be on a single floor, some people lost their private offices. While some are now sharing offices, I took a cubicle. So I no longer have a view onto sunny decks, no redbrick walls, no green trees; the only thing I can see from my seat is a gray cloth partition.

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