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Sonos Play:3 and Bridge Wireless Music System Sweepstakes
Register to win an Sonos Bridge and PLAY:3 system (MSRP $348) we are giving away. According to Sonos: Experience the Sonos Wireless...
Headphone Commute's ...and darkness came: Music to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy
We were in Puerto Rico when people started talking about the “Frankenstorm.” Our immediate concern was that its arrival would keep us from getting...
Ted Nash's The Creep, Frank Kimbrough's Live at Kitano
Ted Nash and Frank Kimbrough—co-founders of the Jazz Composers Collective, which I recently wrote about in this space—have new albums, and they're...
Recording of December 2012: Love This Giant
David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant 4AD CAD3231 (LP). 2012. David Byrne, Annie Clark, prods.; Patrick Dillett, John Congleton, asst....
Thiel Audio Acquired by Nashville-based Private Equity Firm
Thiel co-founders the late Jim Thiel (left) and Kathy Gornik (right) at the 2009 CES We received the following press release last night....
A Short Show Report from Manila
Show organizer Antonio De Leon (far left) and President of the Phillipines Benigno Aquino III (center) listen together. At least 2,500...
Attentions Screen at Goodbye Blue Monday
Amidst the concrete bodegas and basketball court fences of Bushwick, there rests a blue-lit doorway hiding strange and warm sounds. A sustained piano,...
Stereophile's Products of 2012
It's been a long year. Now it's time to party. Each December since 1992, Stereophile has named a few special components its "Products of the Year."...
Coincident Speaker Technology Troubador loudspeaker
Coincident Speaker Technology was known until recently as Concentric Speaker Technology. Under that name they marketed a line of cylindrical speakers...
Winning the Loudness Wars
At the 133rd Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, a full house flocked to aptly numbered Room...
Thanksgiving in NY: Jason Moran and Maria Schneider
Photo: http://jasonmoran.com/look.html Those of you in the New York area for the holidays (or for all times) should know that two of...
Jadis JPL line preamplifier
In its comparatively few years in the marketplace, the line-level preamplifier appears to have established commercial parity with its full-function...
Petition for Better Sound
“A change is gonna come, oh yes it is,” said the wise prophet Samuel once. What the prophet failed to foretell was that change never just comes,...
A Collaborative Playlist: Greatest Guitar Solos
Three weeks ago, I published my top five guitar solos, a subjective list based entirely on the guitarists’ ability to move my soul through their...
Music in the Round #57
I'm writing this in the dog days of a hot August. Over the past few months, a couple of interesting devices have accumulated, but were bumped from...
