In this penthouse suite on the eve of September 13, Polk Audio presented their line of UltraFit active headphones to members of…
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The outer walls of the Cooper Square Hotel reflect blue sky and angle gently as they rise to the penthouse suite. When construction on the hotel began, New Yorkers cried “Abomination!” at the idea of a glass-sheathed high-rise towering over the short brick buildings of the East Village. Now that the Cooper Square Hotel has integrated itself into the Bowery’s landscape, it is the ambitions of the building’s architects that are remembered, not New Yorkers’ gripes.
In his autobiography, Miles Davis wrote that all his live concerts through the 1960s were taped by someone and that Columbia Records, his label in those days, would no doubt release them after he died.
He was so right. Not that I'm complaining.
A few years ago, after the umpteenth of these high-concept releases, I thought that Columbia (now Sony) must have reached the end of the Miles treasure trove. But it seems the fun is just beginning. The latest multidisc set (three CDs and one DVD) is Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe, 1967, subtitled The Bootleg Series, Vol.1.
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Art Dudley returned to the Thomas Schick tonearm in October 2011 (Vol.34 No.10):
Having purchased my review sample of Thomas Schick's transcription-length tonearm ($1475), I decided to have some fun and try it on a turntable other than my beloved Thorens TD 124—namely, my more recently acquired Garrard 301 motor unit. In the process, I took a fresh look at all the installation and alignment data I've accumulated for the Schick, in light of both Keith Howard's watershed article for Stereophile on tracking geometry ("Arc Angles," also in the March 2010 issue) and my own cartridge- and…
While it didn’t quite save my life per se, music, not a D. J., really helped transport me out of a tight situation last week. As we all know, music nerd-dom has its downsides—excess clutter, disgruntled mates, etc—but every once in a while, like on a day when you’re staring at an MRI magnet, those big weird–as–hell tubes that are instant death to the claustrophobic, the fact that you love music and it keeps you alive both emotionally and intellectually, becomes a saving grace. It means you’re able to retreat into your own head and not feel closed in or trapped by those wonderous, non–invasive…
McIntosh VP of Sales and Marketing Linda Passaro poses with producer Tony Visconti (middle) and fashion designer John Varvatos (left)
Iconic hi-fi manufacturer McIntosh and fashion designer John Varvatos are joining forces in hopes to spread the love of great sound to customers at Varvatos stores across the country. Both brands hope to bring customers closer to the rock’n’roll experience by bringing them closer to the music through a high-fidelity audio system. Varvatos’s relationship with McIntosh began at age 17, when he heard his first Mac system. Varvatos, an audio enthusiast,…
The first audio writing I did for Stereophile was a report on the Toronto consumer electronics show in the fall of 1988. I was on Stereophile staff as a record reviewer, but I also had an interest in equipment, so I asked John Atkinson if he would like me to do a report on the Toronto show, not normally the subject of show reports in Stereophile, pointing out that, since I live in the Toronto area, I would have no travel expenses, and he gave it the go-ahead.
Boy, was I excited! Not only would I be attending the show and get to see/hear all that nifty equipment, but I would be there as…
Anthem, Paradigm's sister company, has a very interesting new class-D amplifier, the M1 monoblock ($3799 each), a slim unit that is capable of putting out 1 kilowatt into 8 ohms and 2kW into 4 ohms. The M1 has an integrated fan-less cooling system that allows multiple amps to be stacked without feet.
Paradigm has some new active speakers, including the A2 ($300–$350/pair, depending on finish) demoed here by Erin Phillips and Mark Aling using a Numark DJ mixing deck. Paradigm has also entered the earbuds market, with models ranging in price from $59 to $149. Like Paradigm's speakers, these were developed utilizing anechoic testing.
Totem's Vince Bruzzese is very proud of his new Element series of speakers, which have the bass drivers running full-range, with no crossover. The Element series include Fire (compact), Earth (column, passive radiator), Metal (column, twin woofers), Wood (center channel), and Water (subwoofer). In a demo of the Metals (Arcam BDP100 Blu-ray player, Arcam 888 pre-processor, and Bryston 7B amplifiers), I was particularly impressed by the bass, which didn't seem like it had any need for a subwoofer.