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Jonson Lee
As an audiophile and a voracious listener of all kinds of music, Jonson believes that the experience of being immersed in music is often something spiritual. Born and raised in Korea, he cut his teeth on western music mostly through the music of the 80s and the 90s. As of today, names that make his heart beat a little faster include Vladimir Horowitz, John Coltrane, Youn-Sun Nah, Francis Poulenc, Leonard Bernstein, Tannoy, and Magnepan. Jonson also runs a podcast and a YouTube channel about language learning, called SpongeMind.
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I’ve been reporting on T.H.E. Show for PMA Magazine for 3 years now and every year I’ve been selecting PMA’s Top 3 Rooms of the show.
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The fact is, your digital source player, computer or streamer is the first contact point between the music and your audio system. It’s your digital needle.
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Audioguy’s sanjo recordings have given me the most ecstatic listening experiences of my audiophile life.
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Read the article in English here, et en français ici. 힌트: 답은 스피커가 아님 어렸을 때 이런 놀이를 자주 하곤 했다. 아이들이 한줄로 선다. 그리고 처음 아이가 옆 아이한테 귀속말로 무슨 얘기를 한다. 그러면 그 아이가 다음 아이한테 귓속말로 같은 말을 전한다. 이런 식으로 마지막 아이한테까지 처음 말을 그대로 전달하는 게 놀이의 목적이다. 물론 이건…
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This may seem like a radically bold statement, but here goes: The choice of speakers accounts for 12.5% of the sound quality in your room. ‘How the heck did he get to that number?’, you may ask. That number is a half of a half of a half, a calculation I’ll explain soon. I’ve owned…
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The number of amps I’ve owned in my home is 49. Some of them were back-breaking heavy. And since my listening room/attic is on the third floor and I’m a skinny guy with no muscles to show off, it wouldn’t have been possible for me to try out all these amps and subsequently write this…
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I’m of the opinion that cable design is a thing, which is why some audio cables perform better than others, and you can’t convince me otherwise. I’ve heard the differences.
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When I told my son, Michael, that I was going to write about the role he’s played in my audio hobby, he said: “So you’re going to write about child labor?” Now, before you start imagining things, I want to clarify that I didn’t make Michael work on my audio stuff when he was a…
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“Audio Show” is a funny term to me. “Audio” and “Show”. They don’t really fit together, do they? How can you show sound? Or is audio show shorthand for audio gear?
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Hints: It isn’t your speakers. And it isn’t your source. As a child, you probably played the game “Telephone” or “Chinese Whispers”. It’s a simple game where each kid in a line or circle whispers a message into the next kid’s ear with the goal that the message remain intact all the way to the…
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By this point, I felt confident that I could recommend Ian to any of my friends looking to buy audio products—on the condition, of course, that the system we were about to hear sounded good.
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Prices listed in US$. $10,000 is a lot of money to spend. Or not. It depends on what you get for your 10K. By the same token, what if that 10K is for an audio system? And when I say a system, I mean it has everything you need to listen to music: a pair…
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A volume control always hurts. You can’t completely avoid its damaging effect on sound reproduction no matter who designed or built it.
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Everything in life moves forward and the way classical music was recorded since the “Golden Age”—the mono and early stereo period—is no exception. How did the landscape change since then, and what does it mean to audio enthusiasts?
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I vividly remember the first time I heard a high resolution file. It was a 24/96 download from HDtracks.com of Vivaldi’s Spring played by violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. It sounded amazing. But it got me thinking: was the better sound really due to the hi-res format or, rather, to the quality of the recording itself?…