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The hi-fi world gets a wake-up call as this piece slams the disconnect between lavish audio gear and underfunded artistsโurging brands to fund music creation, not just polish playback of the same old tracks.
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There are myriad products that claim to clean audio power, but which matter most? Industry experts rank dedicated lines, power conditioners, and wall outlets as top upgrades, while opinions diverge on fuses and power cables.
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Not quite hi-fi, but far beyond TV speakersโsoundbars offer an easy, impactful upgrade for the neophyte stepping into better audio.
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Bruno Putzeys calls class-D a โsolved problem,โ but responses from Peachtree, Orchard Audio, and Bel Canto suggest otherwiseโpointing to GaN FETs, digital input topologies, and implementation refinements as the next frontier for sonic gains.
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Class-D amps ignite debate as Steven Stone, Eric Neff, and Bruno Putzeys clash over whether the tech now rivals or even surpasses class-A and AB.
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With a new LA show planned at T.H.E. Showโs longtime venue, just days after its Vegas edition, tensions rise as organizers clash over datesโreviving questions about industry cooperation and competitive respect.
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Read the article in English here, et en franรงais ici. ํํธ: ๋ต์ ์คํผ์ปค๊ฐ ์๋ ์ด๋ ธ์ ๋ ์ด๋ฐ ๋์ด๋ฅผ ์์ฃผ ํ๊ณค ํ๋ค. ์์ด๋ค์ด ํ์ค๋ก ์ ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฒ์ ์์ด๊ฐ ์ ์์ดํํ ๊ท์๋ง๋ก ๋ฌด์จ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์์ด๊ฐ ๋ค์ ์์ดํํ ๊ท์๋ง๋ก ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ ์ ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ง๋ง ์์ดํํ ๊น์ง ์ฒ์ ๋ง์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ ๋ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ด์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ฑด…
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After cycling through 21 pairs of speakers and 48 amps, Jonson credits his son Michaelโnot just for heavy lifting, but for helping him fine-tune his sound, deepen their bond, and learn the art of joyful obsession.
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Jonson Lee argues that no gear upgrade rivals a clear mindโdistraction and interpretation, he writes, add more โnoise and distortionโ to the listening experience than any component ever could.
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Veteran music editor Robert Baird reflects on high-end audioโs tribalism, from gear vs. music purists to loudness wars and streaming woes, vowing to spotlight artists who value both sonic integrity and musical impact.
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A recent article by PMA Magazine editor Robert Schryer got me wondering about when I began to think of music and audio โ and, specifically, of myself as an audio hobbyist. The answer to โwhenโ canโt be clearly defined by a single moment; itโs scattered across a handful of events that took place over a…
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I have a friend who listened only to classical music. One day I had him listen to the music of John Coltrane, a jazz giant. And in honor of the saxophonistโs Giant status, the track I had my friend listen to was โGiant Stepsโ. As he was listening, I was trying to decide what I…
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I am not an audiophile, or an expert on music. I donโt like being labelled. But I do love most musical genres. I fell in love with music when I was nine. โThatโs a young age to fall in love for the first time!โ I hear some of you saying. It is. But by nine…
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Iโve always loved listening to music on a sound system, even going as far back as when all I had access to was my parentsโ outdated, low-fi stereo system. It was in my collegeโs music library, where I worked, that I was introduced to quality sound, although at the time I had no idea what…
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Of course, music isnโt the kind of language weโll use, say, to order food at the drive-thru or book a car appointment at the garage (even for a car tune up, hehe). Music transcends words. It operates on an emotional frequency to make us feel. Even in songs with lyrics, itโs the songโs harmonic and…