EN 
FR -
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 author’s 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. It’s 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 “when” 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 don’t like being labelled. But I do love most musical genres. I fell in love with music when I was nine. “That’s a young age to fall in love for the first time!” 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, it’s the song’s harmonic and…
-
I’ve heard the comments from audio enthusiasts trying to put a positive spin on being Corona-confined: “Stuck inside? Hey, it’s like I’ve been preparing for this all along!” I know about music’s 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 can’t 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…