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Recording of December 2013: The Grateful Dead's Original 13 Studio Albums
The Grateful Dead: Original 13 Studio Albums Grateful Dead Productions/HDtracks Hi-Rez Downloads, 24-bit/96kHz or 24-bit/192kHz, 2013. David...
Death to the Loudness Wars?
Photo: The Quietus Over at The Quietus, Nick Southall speaks with mastering engineer Bob Katz about how iTunes Radio may soon put...
The Everything is New Project
The Light of Love Children's Home in Tuni, Andhra Pradesh, India is a refuge for orphaned children—children of parents with HIV, parents who committed...
Swans Speaker Systems Baton
As a privileged reviewer-type person, I was sent the souped-up, all-rosewood, bi-wirable version that sells for $2905/pair. They're quite handsome...
PSB Imagine T2 Tower loudspeaker
What can you tell about the intrinsic sound quality of a loudspeaker if you've heard it only at an audio show? Arguably, not much. If it sounds bad,...
Constellation Audio Performance Centaur Mono monoblock power amplifier
High-performance audio has always been and will probably remain a cottage industry perpetuated by talented and visionary individuals whose products...
Introducing Audio Element of Pasadena
The long-anticipated opening of Brian Berdan’s high-performance audio store, Audio Element, took place on November 1 and 2 in Pasadena, CA. The...
TAVES 2013 Report Part 3
The design and manufacturing of loudspeakers can be described as falling on a continuum. At one end, we have speakers that use off-the-shelf drivers...
TAVES 2013 Report Part 2
Turntables were much in evidence at TAVES, perhaps the most impressive being the TechDAS Air Force One, which had two versions of the famed Graham...
