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Free Online Course on Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
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John Marks  |  Aug 27, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
In collaboration with Coursera, the online learning company, and starting September 3, The Curtis Institute will be offering at no charge the course Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, taught by Curtis Institute's Neubauer Family Foundation Chair in Piano Studies Jonathan Biss. The course will last five weeks, with an anticipated workload of 1–2 hours a week.
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Fried Compact 7 loudspeaker
Stand Loudspeaker ReviewsBudget Component Reviews
John Marks  |  Oct 24, 2008  |  0 comments
Fried Products Corporation's Compact 7 is a two-way, standmounted loudspeaker with a 1" ring-radiator tweeter and a 7" woven glass-fiber–coned mid-woofer in a "line tunnel" enclosure. Its cabinet is substantial and well made, with handsome real-wood veneers. The speakers come in mirror-imaged pairs, the tweeters offset toward the inside. The Compact 7 is unusual in that its mid-woofer is above its tweeter, which is likely related to the line-tunnel bass loading. Fried insists that the speakers be placed at least 28" above the floor, which dictate I followed.
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Gini Systems "LS3/5a" loudspeaker
Stand Loudspeaker ReviewsBudget Component Reviews
John Marks  |  Dec 19, 2008  |  0 comments
The Gini Systems "LS3/5a" is an unlicensed and inexact replica of the celebrated LS3/5a outside (remote location) broadcast monitoring loudspeaker originally developed by the BBC in the early 1970s. (For a précis of the LS3/5a's history, click here.)
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High-End Faces
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John Marks  |  Feb 07, 2005  |  0 comments
Medford, Long Island–based manufacturer Shahinian Acoustics has announced a recapitalization and a manufacturing-facilities expansion to meet demand for its quasi-omnidirectional loudspeakers. In a related development, Vasken Shahinian has succeeded his father as president and managing director.
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Horses for Courses
As We See It
John Marks  |  Nov 12, 2006  |  0 comments
The single most enduring controversy in audio is: What method or methods should we use to evaluate the performance of audio equipment?
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House Calls: Value-Added Retailing
As We See It
John Marks  |  May 09, 2004  |  First Published: May 01, 2004  |  0 comments
There's this really awful joke:
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How many live jazz concerts have you attended in the last year?
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John Marks  |  Nov 02, 2003  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  49 comments
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How often in the past year have you attended live classical concerts, recitals, or opera?
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John Marks  |  Oct 26, 2003  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
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If you had to spend eternity listening to only one song or one piece of music, what would it be?
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John Marks  |  Oct 20, 2008  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
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It Takes More than Martinis, Mister!
As We See ItAudiophile Essentials
John Marks  |  Aug 12, 2008  |  First Published: Aug 13, 2008  |  0 comments
In the 1970s, a small black-and-white ad sometimes ran in the pages of Playboy magazine. The ad pictured an attractive young woman with lots of disheveled hair and a crooked grin. There was little else to the ad other than the headline, which the reader would assume was being spoken by the model: "It takes more than Martinis to build an image, Mister!"
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