Components
Snow Delays and Luxman
Well, it’s snowing outside. First major snow of 2011, it seems, and it looks like it’s just in time to cancel my plans to head down to Command Performance A/V this Friday. Bummer. I need […]
Month: January 2011
Cables & Power
An Alan Maher Designs Power Cord Experiment
Today, I felt like taking my life into my own hands, so I undertook to swap out some power cords. I say that this is life-threatening only because those Joule-Electra monoblocks (reviewed here) are, well, […]
Analog
A Visit With the Steelhead RC from Manley Labs
I have only a couple of more days with the Manley Steelhead and that makes me sad. But at the risk of throwing out a spoiler as my lead, I have to say that I […]
Music
Total Cost Of Ownership, or something
You know you’ve got things a bit backwards when you find yourself complaining about the cost of the music but not about the cost of the components that play that music. $10,000 for a pair […]
Publishers Desk
The Unease of the Audiophile
Okay, so this hits a bit close to home. Eff you, Dillon, you bastard! “Music and its accurate reproduction can provide some of life’s great pleasures. Beautiful art meets wonderous technology, and fanatics find communities […]
CES
New at CES: some Perspective from Joseph Audio
It’s probably no secret by now that I’m a big fan of Joseph Audio. So, the news that there’s a new upscale stablemate for the Pulsars is great stuff. So, here’s the new Perspective from […]
Analog
Insane! A quick take on the Feickert Blackbird
Just in case you were wondering, you’re jealous. Yes. It’s true. Remember that Dr. Feickert Blackbird turntable I reviewed here? Well, it’s now … mine. Oh, yes! It’s currently sitting in the rack working its […]
Loudspeakers
Magical Merlin Mystery?
There were several reasons I bought a new pair of Merlin’s flagship speakers, the VSM-MXR (or MXM, as they may yet be called — don’t ask). One of which was the joy I got from […]