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Changing minds
We all know how hard it is to change one's mind on anything. But, why is that? Turns out to be something built in from our evolutionary past. Fitting in...
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What's the point?
Do we need a point? Sometimes we do things like simply listen and enjoy the music. There's no point to it other than the sheer enjoyment of it. And, maybe...
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In or out of house?
The Aspen loudspeakers are making quite a name for themselves. From sharing the stage with Magico, B and W, and Magnepan in The Absolute Sound's Greatest Bargain's in Loudspeakers, to gracing the covers of...
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Dry vs. wet
What makes a recording sound dry or wet? Musician, Tony Furtado's Raleigh and Spencer, for example, is quite "wet". Have a listen to the opening of the piece where the drums...
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Origins
Ever wonder why Mexicans love beer and their music often features tubas and brass instruments playing what sounds like polka music? An interesting question since the country we now know as...
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What if?
Ever daydream about what ifs? What if I had this or that? The perfect streamer? Drop dead gorgeous loudspeakers? A DAC that made me swoon? Mine would include the perfect...
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Emotions meter
How cool would that be? A metering system that connected with the goosebumps on our arm or the tears of joy forming in our eyes. I was at the studio...
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Step by step
I know I've shared the story of how years ago we (and others) discovered the bypass cap—that small film capacitor placed in parallel with a big electrolytic. If you look inside...
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Moving forward
I find myself happiest with forward movement. I'm ok on idle, but not for long. And I really don't like reverse. Perhaps this makes me a bit volatile because I...
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Are we shrinking?
I've been involved in the high-end for more than 50 years. That's longer than a number of our HiFi Family members have been alive. And always, during that half century,...
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Stickiness
I'm right in the middle of auditioning a new set of software updates that will one day become a new mountaintop for the MK2 DirectStream. Aside from the obvious traits...
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A moment of reflection
Over the past weeks I have immersed myself in writing. I got this wild hair idea to expand The Audiophile's Guide to an entire series of 10 books covering everything from subwoofers,...
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Homegrown
On a recent trip to France, Terri and I had the opportunity to look around at what passes for stereo equipment in European homes and we were reminded of the...
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Emotional connections
Our musical systems are all about connecting our emotions with the music. If the system's working correctly, if all the tweaks and the work we put into it matters, then...
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Powering the source
In 1997 we introduced to the world the idea of regenerated power. Back then, the notion that the AC power's quality mattered was revolutionary. Scoffed at. We persisted and today few...
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Old habits
My electric car has no oil to leak onto the garage floor, yet each and every morning I take a peek under the car just to make sure. It's an old...
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Fast subwoofers
A subwoofer properly setup so it is augmenting the main speakers and filling in the few holes in the room shouldn't need to sound "fast". Why? Because at 30Hz or...
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Design choices
If you cut up a coat hanger and use it to connect your power amplifier to your speakers it'd work, though there are no doubt better choices we could make....
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Moving air
Our stereo systems won't work in the vacuum of space. That's because the task at hand is the moving of air. Our loudspeakers are like pistons, pushing and pulling the...
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My new book!
It's been a long time since I've announced a new book I just published, but now it's time.I am delighted to let you know that the final book in the Eemian...
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