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Westone 4R In-ear Headphone Sweepstakes
Register to win a set of Westone 4R In-ear Headphones (MSRP $599.99) we are giving away. According to the company: The Quad-Driver Westone...
Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks
Readers of this space know of my near-boundless admiration for Maria Schneider, the most accomplished and imaginative big-band composer of our time...
Aidan Baker: On Music, Sound, and Already Drowning
Aidan Baker. Photos: Leah Buckareff. Aidan Baker’s Already Drowning is our “Recording of the Month” for June 2013. In preparation for...
Roy Gandy: 40 Years of Reganomics
It's not easy to get Roy Gandy to look back. "I'm not a past person, I don't reminisce," he says. "But right at this moment I'm feeling very happy....
Recording of June 2013: Already Drowning
Aidan Baker: Already Drowning Gizeh GZH 043CD/LP (CD/LP). 2013. Aidan Baker, prod.; Baker, Jonathan Demers, engs.; James Plotkin, mastering....
Nordost Premiers the Valhalla 2
Rune Skov shows off the new Nordost Valhalla 2 interconnect ($9799/2m pair) next to his sweet Nordost tattoo. On Tuesday May 28th, 2013,...
Your Show of Shows: Newport Beach 2013 Starts Friday
In only its third year, T.H.E. Show Newport Beach has already become the largest consumer high-end/high-performance/fine-audio show in the United...
Payday Albums: 5/24/13
I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t made much progress since the last Payday Albums post: I keep buying records, but the days don’t get any...
21 Tracks for Newport Beach: A Playlist
T.H.E. Show Newport Beach will be held May 31 through June 2, at the Hilton and Atrium hotels, near Orange County Airport, in Irvine, California....
VTL's Luke Manley
Jonathan Scull: How long has VTL been in business, Luke? Luke Manley: My dad, David Manley, and I co-founded VTL in June of 1986. We started...
How Not to Change a Tweeter
In April of 2011, after watching one of the many iterations of The Due Diligence perform at Silent Barn, the soundman made an announcement: “We...
Broken Deer: Polaraura
I first became acquainted with Lindsay Dobbin’s work in 2010, when she released, under the name Broken Deer, a limited-edition cassette on Al...
Focal XS Book Music System Sweepstakes
Register to win a Focal XS Book Music System (MSRP $299.00) we are giving away. According to the company: Whatever your musical taste,...
Velodyne DF-661 loudspeaker
Silicon Valley–based Velodyne was founded in 1983 to develop a range of subwoofers that used servo-control to reduce non-linear distortion to vanishingly...
Tony Wins Some Schiit
Tony Tueni of Charlotte, North Carolina is the happy winner of our Schiit Bifrost USB and Modi DACs Sweepstakes. Tony's current system includes...
Passion of the Hi-Fi: Part VI - Resolution
JA guffawed, “It sounds like you need a tweeter-ectomy.” “I hope that’s all I need.” After buying a replacement tweeter for one of my Usher...
