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As an audiophile on a journey of perpetually better sound, I was left slightly disconcerted by class-D trailblazer Bruno Putzeysโs assertion, in my previous class-D article, that, as he put it, well-done class-D amplification was now so good that โthe amplifier part is basically a solved problemโ. I understood the gist of what Bruno meant…
A couple of years ago, a designer of high-end tube equipment said something to me that left such an impact it eventually led me, now that the conditions seem right, to write this article. That mind-bomb was set off when I asked the designer if heโd ever consider making a class-AB amp. Shaking his head,…
This article presents the authorโs personal perspective and does not necessarily reflect the endorsements or viewpoints of the editorial team. To submit your own opinions, please contact our editor-in-chief. A few days ago, I received a press release announcing that the Los Angeles Orange County Audiophile Society (LAOCAS) and the Chester Group from England are…
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…
When I told my son, Michael, that I was going to write about the role heโs played in my audio hobby, he said: โSo youโre going to write about child labor?โ Now, before you start imagining things, I want to clarify that I didnโt make Michael work on my audio stuff when he was a…
Hints: It isnโt your speakers. And it isnโt your source. As a child, you probably played the game โTelephoneโ or โChinese Whispersโ. Itโs a simple game where each kid in a line or circle whispers a message into the next kidโs ear with the goal that the message remain intact all the way to the…
How did music become science? Or an ugly and personal battle royale over what speaker measurements mean? Or a mud-slinging political brawl over whether some gear writers are on the take? These are questions that Iโve pondered many times over during my years as a music editor in the sometimes blood sport universe of high-end…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Iโve heard the comments from audio enthusiasts trying to put a positive spin on being Corona-confined: โStuck inside? Hey, itโs like Iโve been preparing for this all along!โ I know about musicโs health benefits. Iโve read those credibly-sourced studies that prove how listening to music can help reduce depression, anxiety, physical pain, and enhance Alzheimer-,…
When the CD came out, many vinyl record enthusiasts decried the format. โIt sounds mechanical!โ Theyโd protest. โIt sounds cold!โ Digital sucks became their mantra. A format war ensued. And while most of them today will concede that CD playback sounds leagues better than it used to, many still canโt fully warm up to it.…
A musical recording is designed to do one thing especially well, barring which it fails completely: make people want to hear it. To get there, a lot of work and reflection goes into bringing a music release to fruition: the writing, the musicianship, the beat, the compositions, the words, its tone, its catchiness, the mixing…