Primephonic Classical Music Streaming | REVIEW
When approaching Primephonic (website), one of the few high-res (24-bit/192kHz) streaming services devoted to classical music, I was interested to see if they could go beyond [...]
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Homebody’s Hi-Fi Halloween: Posing My Dog as Nipper
When it became clear that I wasn’t going to be hitting the Halloween parties this year, I was still eager to participate somehow in the ritual. I decided to let a season of [...]
McIntosh Labs’ Charlie Randall with Nan Pincus | INTERVIEW
The RIAA has released their midyear report, and for the first time since the 1980s, vinyl sales have surpassed CD sales. This news comes with no surprise as vinyl sales [...]
Rat Tale: How a Fictional Audiophile Got Me into Hi-Fi
This story originally appeared in our print publication, The Occasional Magazine. Words by Nan Pincus, Photos by Eric Franklin Shook I had dark hair and she had blonde. She [...]
Pitch Don’t Even: The Global Quest for a Lowering of the Standard Tuning Pitch
Forgotten Audiophile History This series explores little-known stories of twentieth century audio technology, sound experiences, and radio chicanery. There are some ideas so [...]
“Beethoven Pleads The Fifth” Won’t Stay Silent
Since the pandemic hit, most of us are just trying to make it from one day to the next. A small few of us are making it easier for everyone, through music, through the fight [...]
The Golden Spinning Wheel: Classical Music Radio Keeps Bringing Us Back to Life | RADIO SCHMALTZ
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák wrote a series of fantastical tone poems in 1896 that are some of my favorite short pieces in the classical canon. One called The Golden [...]
Absofoxinglutely: The Delights of A Radio Fox Hunt | RADIO SCHMALTZ
RALEIGH, NC (PTA) — I usually wake up early. I’ve heard that habitual early-risers tend to be optimists. This makes some sort of sense to me because this habit shows that [...]
Nan Pincus, Toneses Are Roses
Having lived next to Virgil for about three months, there were a few things I knew. I knew that he liked to shell peanuts outside on the deck, that he had installed car [...]
Ocean FM Was Fire: How Local Radio Done Right Can Heat A Cabin | RADIO SCHMALTZ
A ROCKY PENINSULA IN NORTHERN IRELAND (PTA) — There was a stove in the kitchen, a stove in the living room, and a stove in the bedroom. I kept all three constantly fed [...]
