According to the company:
The Vanatoo Transparent One powered speakers set a new price/performance benchmark in the audiophile world. They produce unexpectedly great sound quality (honest, tight bass down to 48Hz!) from small bookshelf speakers that give you a lot of flexibility in how you use them. They are equally at home as a desktop audio system, a music streaming solution for a room where you want music but not stacks of equipment, or as a compact system you take with you…
At 79, ol’ Jerry Lee is still making new records like this good time jam session out on Vanguard, formerly a premiere folk music label, but then everything changes. Or in the case of Jerry Lee, not so much. Here he sits down at the piano and with a few famous friends, mostly guitar players…
Aaron Copland has called jazz "contemporary chamber music," and this is certainly true of these improvisations by Previn and his friends. I consider this chamber jazz at its best, varying in mood and tempo but never losing interest. The program consists of eight variations on themes from Bernstein's well-known musical, and includes "Maria," "Jet Song," "I Feel Pretty," and "Something's Coming…
There has been much discussion recently among perfectionists about the importance of what is called "absolute phase" in sound reproduction (footnote 1). Basically, the contention has been that, since many musical sounds are asymmetrical (having different waveforms during positive and negative phases), it is important that a…
By days in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spencer Hughes worked as part of the BBC's loudspeaker research team. Among other accomplishments, he helped develop the 5" midrange/woofer for the fabled LS3/5A loudspeaker.
As speaker designers from Henry Kloss to Sonus Faber's Franco Serblin have told me, designing a successful 5" driver is "a doddle" (British for easy) compared to creating an 8" or larger cone. "It becomes harder to maintain clarity, focus, speed, and…
Over the years, all sorts of materials have been tried for woofer cones. Doped paper. Plastic…
Description: 2.5-way, floorstanding speaker. Drive-units: 7" Kevlar-reinforced cone woofer, 7" plastic-cone mid/woofer; 7/8" (22mm) polyamide-dome tweeter. Crossover frequencies: 900Hz, 3.2kHz, Frequency range: 29Hz–25kHz. Sensitivity: 90dB/W/m. Nominal impedance: 8 ohms. Minimum impedance: 4.5 ohms.
Dimensions: 38" high (including spikes), by 7.5" wide by 12.5" deep. Weight: 46 lbs.
Price: $6495/pair (add $1000 for a premium finish).
Manufacturer: Spendor Audio Systems Ltd., G5 Ropemaker Park, South Road, Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 3GY, England, UK.…
Audio Research's National Sales Manager Dave Gordon, joined by the Fine Sounds Group's David Stafford, will be introducing the new ARC Galileo Series, while McIntosh's Chris Smith and Michael Russo will discuss the past and future of McIntosh Labs, and will be demming the MC-275 tube mono amplifiers and C-2500 tube preamplifier with Wilson Audio Sasha Series…
I was shocked when I learned that my dear friend Harry Pearson had passed away, on November 4.
Harry founded the subjective audio magazine The Absolute Sound and published his first issue in 1972. He was enamored of what J. Gordon Holt had done in creating the first American subjective audio magazine, Stereophile, a decade earlier, but Harry wanted to take the concept to another level. In TAS, he and a small cadre of trusted writers reviewed all of the new high-…