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“Oedipus, Shmedipus, I love you, momma.”: A Cable Appreciation
Cables. Every person in the whole wide world that owns a hifi comprised of more than one box needs cables.
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Certainly Uncertain: When Measurement Results Don’t Match Part Two
Another of the greatest misconceptions in all of Audiophiledom is the notion that the interpretation of measurements are objective.
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When Measurements and Blind Tests Go Wrong: A History Lesson
The correlation between measurements and hearing is tenuous at best. If we use history as a guide, engineers in the 1940’s were convinced people preferred narrow band music reproduction. They’d done blind listening tests to prove it!
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Certainly Uncertain: When Measurement Results Don’t Match
One of the greatest misconceptions in all of Audiophiledom is the notion that measurements are objective.
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HiFi Extremists?
I write these words with a heavy heart — Our hobby is under attack by HiFi Extremists.
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Letters to the Editor
[a dramatization] Subject: A Question
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MQA: That Sounds Good. To Me.
Some audiophiles insist on redundancy when it comes to talking about preference, believing the addition of superfluous qualifiers makes things sound more. . .scientific.
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Looking Ahead From The Red Chair
A new year stretches out beyond our view yet I see a path filled with hope, music, and gear.
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Happy New Year!
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.” W. C. Fields
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2020: The Year In Rear-view
Live in the moment. Be kind. Sometimes the simplest of notions are the most difficult to maintain and 2020 was a stress test for every caring human being.
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Poll: MQA: Love It or Leave It?
Just mention MQA and some people react as if you’ve kicked their dog.
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HiFi Pedigree or Have A Heart About HiFi
Is a piece of HiFi just a piece of HiFi? Can we reduce the value of a given thing down to those items listed in the accompanying spec sheet?
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Darko.Audio Podcast #21: Work Experience with Twittering Machines’ Michael Lavorgna
Darko and I shoot the breeze about “Work Experience” in his recently posted podcast where we cover taste, selflessness, judgement, ego, reviewing, comparisons, and more.
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Is USB Audio Going The Way Of The Dodo?
Remember Computer Audio? When I was hired as Editor of the then nascent AudioStream in 2011, Computer Audio was all the rage. If you wanted to play with all of the newfangled higher PCM resolutions and DSD, USB was your only option. The thing was, […]
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Twittering Machines History
Some of you may not know that the Twittering Machines you know is actually its second incarnation: TM launched in its original form in March of 2007. Here’s the very first post:
