Here we see him singing, furiously, at the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society’s 18th Annual Society Gala and Awards Banquet, held last weekend in the Grand Ballroom of the Buena Park Holiday Inn. He really hits his stride at about 40 seconds in. (Thanks to "The Audio Otaku" for capturing the magic.)
Besides JA’s cancan, there were lots of other fun and interesting things at this year's Gala: Bybee Labs’ Jack Bybee offered opening remarks; Vandersteen Audio’s Richard Vandersteen…
Sunday, January 15, 5–9pm and Monday, January 16, 6–9pm: As a way to recuperate from the madness of the Consumer Electronics Show and with a hat tip to Devore Fidelity's popular Monkeyhaus listening parties, Pitch Perfect Audio (300 Brannan Street, Suite 209, San Francisco) will host their first “Greenhaus” events.
Jonathan Halpern of Tone Imports, John DeVore of DeVore Fidelity, and Anthony Abbate of Box Furniture Co. will be on hand to present their gear, play records, answer questions, and pour drinks.
On Sunday, a range of DeVore Fidelity…
Fact is, the predominant digital source at audio shows is now a computer, and Stereophile has been covering…
I spent the rest of that day trying to measure the differences between these two USB cables. It proved as frustrating as a snipe hunt, though I did find a very slight difference in jitter between the AudioQuest and generic cables with the…
Description: USB-AES/EBU, -S/PDIF, or -I2S data format converter for use with PCs and Macs (driver software included). Drivers available for Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP/2003, Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Input: USB 2.0–compliant. Operates in asynchronous isochronous mode. Output: S/PDIF electrical on RCA jack, AES/EBU on XLR jack, I2S on RJ-45 jack. Sample rates supported: 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192kHz. Input/output bit depth: 16 or 24. Power supply: 12V DC wall wart. Options: Monolith lithium-ion battery…
Digital Sources: Ayre Acoustics DX5 universal player; G4 Mac mini running OS X 10.5.8, iTunes 10.4.1, Pure Music 1.82; Logitech Transporter, dCS Debussy, Bricasti M1 DAC D/A converters; Halide S/PDIF Bridge USB-S/PDIF converter.
Preamplifier: Ayre Acoustics K-5xeMP.
Power Amplifiers: Classé CTM-600 monoblocks.
Loudspeakers: Sonus Faber Amati Futura, TAD Compact Reference, Vivid B1, BBC LS3/5a.
Cables: Digital: Kimber Orchid AES/EBU. USB: AudioQuest Coffee. Interconnect (balanced): AudioQuest Wild. Speaker: AudioQuest Wild. AC: PS Audio Lab…
I measured the behavior of the Empirical Audio Off-Ramp 4 using the Audio Precision SYS2722 system (see www.ap.com and "As We See It" in the January 2008 issue). I installed the correct version of the driver program for the Snow Leopard operating system, and played test tones at various sample rates and bit depths from BIAS Peak 7 on an Intel MacBook running OS X 10.6.8. The Macintosh USB Prober utility reported both the manufacturer and product strings as "Empirical Audio Async 192." The interface was identified as "vendor-specific," with no information offered…
But a decade later here I still am, and Modjeski is still producing his own Music Reference brand of electronics and marketing computer-matched tubes sold under the RAM Tube name—not that both of us aren't also doing…
So choosing the optimal tap should take into account your speakers' nominal impedance as well as the lowest impedance they dip to. My Wilson Audio MAXX 3s dip down to 3.4 ohms at around 20Hz…
Description: Stereo power amplifier with solid-state input stage and tubed driver and output stages. Tube complement: two 6BQ7, four KT88. Output transformer taps: 8, 4, 2, 1 ohm. Output power: 100Wpc (20dBW) into 8 ohms. Frequency response: 6Hz–20kHz, ±0.5dB; 2Hz–60kHz, ±3dB. Bandwidths: 13Hz–65kHz (half power), 20Hz–35kHz (full power). Harmonic distortion: <0.5% at 1kHz/100W. Signal/noise: not specified. Input sensitivity: 1.1V (full output). Input impedance: 15k ohms (one leg driven), 30k ohms (balanced).
Dimensions: 17.25" (440mm) W by 7" (180mm) H by…