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Talking With Gayle Sanders of Eikon Audio and M...
Gayle Martin Sanders was one of the co-founders of electrostatic loudspeaker manufacturer MartinLogan, along with Ronald Logan Sutherland. (They combined their middle names to name the company.) The company first...
Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Nine: Inconsis...
Many of us know that the sound of our stereo changes from day to day or even hour to hour. Very often the better (or more sensitive, or finicky) the...
Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Eight: Too Hot...
When I was working at The Absolute Sound as Harry Pearson’s set up man in the mid 1980s through early 1990s, Goldmund was a name at the top of the high-end pantheon....
A Visit to Audio Classics: Vintage Vibe, Modern...
Founded in 1979, Audio Classics, located in Vestal, New York, is one of the world’s foremost dealers of vintage, used and new audio equipment. They specialize in classic McIntosh components and are...
Rumer: Nashville Tears
Rumer has one of the most beautiful and captivating voices I’ve ever heard, a sublime mix of purity and expression. Her 2010 debut album, Seasons of My Soul, went platinum in the...
Talking with Carl Marchisotto of NOLA Loudspeakers
Carl Marchisotto is the president of Holbrook, NY-based Accent Speaker Technology, manufacturers of NOLA loudspeakers. Before then, Marilyn and Carl owned Acarian Systems, makers of Alon speakers, and Carl worked...
Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Seven: You Can...
When I was a few years out of college I had put together a pretty respectable stereo system, in large part thanks to the advice of my friend and The...
Confessions of a Setup Man, Part Six: Sinister ...
What Goes Up, Must Come Down When I worked at The Absolute Sound as Harry Pearson’s setup man he had a strict rule: no shoes could be worn in his house. I...
Introducing Octave Records: Audiophile Sound, B...
Hope you don’t mind if I put on my proud-family-member hat here, to announce that PS Audio has just launched a new record label, Octave Records. As you might expect, Octave...
How I Met Buck Dharma of Blue Öyster Cult
When I was a teenager I wanted to be a rock star. Every month, the magazines Creem and Circus came out and I devoured them, windows into that mythical rock and roll world I...
The Incalculable Influence of Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk’s influence on today’s pop music is so pervasive, the band is so historically important, and so much has been written about them already that doing an introduction here almost...
Getting It Wrong: Confessions of a Setup Man, P...
Audio system setup is, I feel, as much an art as a science. I suppose one school of thought would insist that there’s only one way to get it “right,”...
In Memoriam: Art Dudley
The audio industry lost one of its greatest with the passing of Stereophile Deputy Editor Art Dudley on April 14, 2020 from metastatic cancer. I’m having a tough time writing this because...
You’re Grounded! Confessions of a Setup Man, Pa...
Hum has no place in an audio system. It’s often caused by improper grounding. When I worked at The Absolute Sound from around the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, eliminating unwanted hum was a...
My Life with Harry Pearson
I worked for Harry Pearson full-time for many years in the late 1980s through early 1990s as technical director, managing editor and pop music reviewer and wrote for The Absolute Sound from...
James Lee Stanley: Musical Survivor
Every now and then I’m going to write about artists who deserve wider recognition. I can think of no one more deserving than James Lee Stanley. Since 1972 the singer-songwriter-producer-recording-engineer-actor...