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Anyone who thinks the ultra-chic New York progressive music scene lacks a sense of humor hasn't heard Laurie Anderson. Her last album, Mister Heartbreak, proved to be the most listenable and entertaining example of the genre on years. It also provided a sound quality that put most "audiophile" discs to shame.
Anderson's style has elements of Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Japanese koto music, and George Carlin, but in United States Live the result is a unique and fascinating form of multi-…
We received the following press release on May 7.—Ed.
Mauro Grange, CEO of Fine Sounds SpA, and Charlie Randall, longtime President of McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., have announced their plans for a management buyout of Fine Sounds Group in partnership with LBO France and Yarpa. The acquisition will facilitate greater opportunities for global collaborations amongst the product development, marketing, distribution and finance teams of each of the Group's portfolio of brands,…
Design constraints are quite serious in this price range. Cabinet size is kept modest so that lumber and finishing costs are kept to a minimum. Driver quality and crossover complexity must be juggled so that no one design parameter is favored over the others. All of the speakers reviewed here use two drivers because two good drivers are better and usually cheaper than three mediocre ones-not to mention the simpler crossover required…
Listening tests were carried out in my 14' by 20' living room. The soundsource was primarily analog records played on my Pink Triangle turntable, and the cartridge was a Sao Win strain-gauge model fed directly to the power amplifiers. I have found this cartridge to be tonally neutral-in fact, one of the most neutral I've heard-as well as very fast, but lacking the somewhat "zingy" top end of many moving-coils.
I used a variety of power amplifiers to audition the speakers, all of them likely candidates (from a cost standpoint) to be used with $300–$500…
Description: Two-way, sealed-enclosure, stand-mounted loudspeaker. Driver complement: one 6½" solid flat-piston driver, one 1" soft-dome tweeter. Crossover frequency: 2kHz. Nominal impedance: 4 ohms.
Dimensions: 8 13¼" H by 8" W by 8" D. Weight: 12.5 lbs each.
Serial numbers of units tested: 3801, first samples; not noted, secon samples.
Price: $400/pair (1984); reissued as the PC60 CA at $1400/pair (2014).
Manufacturer: Phase Technology, Jacksonville, FL 32244 (1984). Phase Technology, 8005 W. 110th Street, Overland Park, KS 66210 (2014). Tel: (…
Ahhh, No. While that portrait may fit a rarified few, there are a whole lot more audiophiles or audiophile–leaning music fans who are home, using their Class B through E gear, listening to, shall we say, less dignified tunes. Either that or several audiophile and major record labels are completely out of their minds…
The object of their praise is the Munich High End show, which takes place every year at the MOC Veranstaltungscenter München.…
In December 2013, the KEF LS50 loudspeaker ($1499.99/pair) was named Stereophile's Budget Product and Overall Component of the Year, marking the first time in 22 years of voting that any component had earned this strange double distinction. Consider the achievement: The former award is typically granted to products that provide outstanding value but may nevertheless exhibit some obvious, albeit carefully considered, compromise(s); the latter, loftier award is often won by cost-no-object, flagship designs that shun even the…