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Description: Servo-driven, remote-controlled, sealed-box, powered subwoofer with digitally controlled room equalization electronics and graphical user interface. Drive-unit: long-excursion, carbon-fiber-reinforced 18" paper-cone woofer and tandem, push-pull 3" voice-coil and 24-lb magnet. Inputs: 2 line-level (RCA), 1 balanced (XLR), 2 speaker-level (bare wire, banana plugs, or spade lugs); two XLR balanced microphone inputs, one each on rear & front panels. Outputs: 2 line-level (RCA), 1 line-level (RCA) output for test signal L/R & video. Rear-panel…

Analog source: Linn Sondek LP12-Lingo turntable, Linn Ittok tonearm, Spectral moving-coil cartridge.
Digital sources: Krell KPS-28 CD player, Sony SCD-C555ES multichannel SACD player.
FM tuners: Day-Sequerra Classic, McIntosh MR-78, Sony ST-5000.
Preamplification: Mark Levinson ML-7 preamplifier with L3A moving-coil phono cards, Duntech MX-10 head amplifier, Margulis phono section, Krell KCT preamplifier.
Power amplifiers: Mark Levinson ML-2 monoblocks, Krell FPB600c, Mark Levinson No.334.
Loudspeakers: Quad ESL-989.
Cables: Interconnect…

After digesting Malcolm Omar Hawksford's papers on signal transmission,1 Smith concluded that the answer was obvious: He…

Description: Interconnect and loudspeaker cables. Interconnects available in single-ended and balanced configurations, terminated with Eichmann Bullet Plug RCA connectors or Neutrik XLR connectors, respectively. Speaker cables supplied in one-wire-per-conductor (+ or –) configuration, terminated with spade-type cutout in end of silver ribbon conductor, cutout sized to match speaker binding-post diameters.
Prices: Interconnect: $1400/3' unbalanced pair, $1450/3' balanced pair. Loudspeaker cable: $2950/8' pair. Approximate number of dealers: 10. Warranty: 30-…

Analog Source: VPI HR-X turntable & tonearm, Lyra Titan cartridge.
Digital Sources: Burmester 001, Ensemble Dirondo CD players.
Preamplification: Ensemble Fonobrio phono stage; Placette Remote Volume Control; VTL TL-12.5, Burmester 011 preamplifiers.
Power Amplifiers: Simaudio Moon Rock, VTL S-400.
Loudspeakers: Thiel CS6.
Accessories: Finite Elemente Reference equipment stand, SSC equipment feet; Nordost ECO3, Disk Doctor, Disksolution, Auric Illuminator CD-cleaning/treatment systems; MIT ZCenter power-conditioning and delivery system…

The Rising Sons became legendary for their historic influence on 1960s blues-rock, inspiring many a player besides Duane Allman to pick up the slide and call down the blues like sweet showers of rain. It would have been quite a stretch, though, to predict that the Sons would become a touchstone of world music via the solo careers of its two best-known members, Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder.

Audible wallpaper is broadly defined as background music—any music that is introduced into any place for the purpose of setting a mood or preventing lapses into silence. Most people like to hear music when they shop or dine or stroll on the mall, so why not give it to them at every opportunity? Simply because the enjoyment of music, like the…

Wallpaper & fidelity

Editor: About your editorial in the last issue, I've never before seen the particular phrase "audible wallpaper," which may well have been coined by Alistair Cooke, but when? I had thought that I was the first to think of, and use in print, the terms "musical" or "tonal wallpaper" and "wallpaper music," in my book Good Listening, published in 1953 and written 1951-1952. And I'm almost sure that I had used one form or another of the term earlier than that in some record review or article or,…