The company has decided to combine its top-tier products under the Mark Levinson brand name, with Proceed's best and most successful products—including the AVP2+6, CVP2, HPA2 and HPA3—to be redesigned for a closer cosmetic fit with the Mark Levinson line. "There will be no effort to hide the fact that the new models wore the Proceed badge in their previous lives," the announcement stated. "They have always been Mark Levinson at heart . . . their…
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Madrigal's Proceed line of high-end audio products will be phased out some time later this year, according to an April 3 press release.
From the January 1996 issue, Jonathan Scull listens closely to the Wavelength Audio Cardinal XS monoblock amplifier. Single-ended tube designs such as the Wavelength can inspire controversy within audiophile ranks, so Scull carefully sorts the plusses and minuses.
We couple Scull's review of the Wavelength amp with his interview with its designer: Gordon Rankin, Wavelength's Single-Ended Man. Everything audio about the man and his amplifier are revealed, including which tubes he prefers and why.
Next, from January 1994, Dick Olsher gets hold of the MACH 1 Acoustics DM-10 Signature…
News recently coming out of Cambridge, England promises yet another new revolutionary loudspeaker technology following in the footsteps of NXT's flat-panel speakers and ATC's HyperSonic Sound and Stratified Field Technology. Engineering consultant Tony Hooley heads up a team of researchers who have created what they hope will be a breakthrough in small, lightweight, highly accurate-sounding arrays of digitally driven pressure transducers.
According to a story in the July 27th EE Times, Hooley believes that his group is the first to demonstrate "proof-of-principle" for a completely digital…
Angus McKenzie was a wholly remarkable individual. One of British hi-fi’s legends, he was the country's leading equipment reviewer for more than a decade, but that was only one of several careers and passions he pursued with repeated and conspicuous success, despite losing his sight completely at the age of 26.
He studied electronics and acoustics, and at the same time his passions for music and radio, both amateur and FM, developed. It was early days in the professional recording business, and his first business venture was to start up the famous Olympic Studios—Led Zeppelin, The Who,…
Audiophiles have had little reason to follow the high-definition video DVD format conflict. Until now.
For those who haven't been keeping tabs on the HD video struggles, two competing formats for storing HD video on disc have emerged: Blu-ray and HD DVD. The Blu-ray Disc Association, a 13-member group, which includes Sony, Philips, Panasonic, and Pioneer, claims that Blu-ray DVD players could be available by midyear 2005. High-Definition Digital Versatile Disc or HD DVD is a different and non-compatible technology using blue lasers, which is backed by Japanese electronics firms Toshiba and…
Québec Audio & Video, Canada's premier home entertainment magazine, is hosting its fourth annual contest held in conjunction with the Home Entertainment 2004 Show, scheduled to take place May 20–23, 2004 in New York City.
The Grand Prize winner and his or her guest will receive a trip for two to New York City to attend Home Entertainment 2004. Accommodations will be at the Hilton New York Hotel & Towers, the location of the event, courtesy of the Show's co-sponsors—Primedia Publishing's home-technology magazines: Home Theater, Stereophile, Stereophile's Ultimate AV(Formerly…
For the second consecutive year, a film using the Nagra Digital Recorder (Nagra-D) as the location sound device has been nominated for an Oscar Award for Best Sound. The film this year is L.A. Confidential, which has received a total of 9 Oscar nominations. The winners will be named at the 70th Annual Academy Awards on March 23, 1998. Last year, The English Patient, which also used the Nagra-D, won the award for Best Sound
Recording engineer Kirk Francis used the Nagra-D to capture sound for L.A. Confidential, and has also been nominated for Best Location Sound Mixer by the Cinema…
Move over, CDNow, N2K, and Music Boulevard---Amazon.com and Best Buy want to play.
Within a few days of each other, Amazon.com and Best Buy Company announced that they were entering the Internet's music-retailing market. Amazon.com is reputed to be the world's largest bookseller. Electronics retailer Best Buy operates 284 discount outlets, primarily in the eastern part of the United States.
Reuters news service reported Feb. 24 that Amazon has made a formal commitment to online music sales. No specific date was announced for the debut, but it is expected this year. "The company…
Robert Deutsch writes that "There's a well-known tradeoff in speaker design between sound quality for one listener vs. multiple listeners." But his review of the Dunlavy SC-IV/A loudspeaker reveals that, in the hands of a great designer, these limitations can sometimes be transcended. How did John Dunlavy do it? Deutsch gets to the bottom of this, and more.
Next, a topic that can aways get the audiophile blood boiling: George Reisch discovers that, "Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress." As he writes in…
Consumer electronics stores have long carried computer gear, everything from laptops and desktop systems to software and accessories. Computer stores, led by Gateway Country stores, have slowly been moving in the other direction. Now it looks as if convergence in the retail realm is about to take another great leap forward.
On November 19, CompUSA announced that it would be making room for home entertainment products in 181 of its 227 stores. Reflecting "the convergence of technology and entertainment," in the words of a company press release, the effort will put flat-panel televisions, A/V…