Brown boxes come, and they go. These are going. When they are gone, I will feel a little happy bit of relief.
To be returned to their homes:
dCS Puccini SACD player
dCS Puccini U-Clock
McIntosh C2300 preamplifier
McIntosh MC275 power amplifier
Einstein Audio The Tube preamplifier (with separate box for remote control unit?!)
Peachtree Audio iDecco integrated amplifier
The cute Gradient Helsinki lends itself to elegance and simplicity. But did Art enjoy his time spent living with it?
Some think yes, some think no. I would guess a bit of both. Art had an extremely tough time finding the places in his…
The woman seen here is deep into her listening experience with Phiaton’s PS210. You can read John Atkinson’s review of the PS200 here. Wes Phillips reviewed the MS400. And I compared the MS400 to the highly fashionable Beats by Dr. Dre.
I’m most interested in the cheap stuff.
The CD5004 CD player uses a Cirrus Logic CS4392 D/A converter capable of handling high-resolution 24-bit/196kHz PCM signals. But the player can also read CD-R and CD-RW discs with MP3 and WMA files. Interestingly, there’s also a front panel…
Best Coast's full-length debut, Crazy For You, will be released by the awesome Mexican Summer label on July 27th. (That's just a few days away!)
She devoted much of the rest of the set to very early pieces, including an upbeat number she wrote for the (now-defunct) Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and an arrangement of the ballad standard “My Ideal” that she said…
I first met Micah in January 2005 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. You can read about that experience here. It was my first time in Vegas, my first time attending a CES, and my first-ever press demo. Jim Thiel was discussing his CS3.7. All at once, and just off a plane, I was being introduced to Jim Thiel, Kathy Gornik, and the latest iteration of a classic loudspeaker design. Jim Thiel was vibrating with an incredible kind of…
Last Night, in Other Music, I held out my copy of Best Coast’s Crazy For You, and I smiled at Karen and, because I needed to say something, I said, “I’ve been looking forward to this one.”
She lit up like a firefly, like a summer moon, like a pretty girl in love with a song, and she said:
“Oh yeah…yeah. It’s so…it’s so…high.”
She raised one hand up to her head.
“It’s like way up here. But then…”
She lowered her hand to her waist.
“It’s down here, too.”
What the hell was she talking about? I had no idea. I…
Leben CS300 integrated amplifier? What is this beautiful thing? It’s got big silver knobs and little black switches and a gold faceplate and wood side panels and green trim and it uses four EL84 tubes and it’s “A Motion Sound,” whatever that means, and its dimensions are entirely adorable and I want it! I want it now, I want it.
A…
Thursday, July 29, 6–8pm: Join musicians from the world-renowned Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Gramophone’s Timonium Showroom for Music Matters: interludes of music and intimate conversation amid fine wine, hors d’oeuvres and state-of-the-art audio systems. Space is limited for this FREE event, so reserve today.
In addition, representatives from Meridian will be on hand for the US premier of two new products. The Gramophone Timonium Showroom…