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  • Dragon, Concerto for Pipaโ€”A Historical Meeting Between East and West

    Dragon, Concerto for Pipa is the first pipa concerto ever written in the Westโ€”a groundbreaking fusion of Eastern tradition and Western orchestration.

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  • Le Quatuor Cobalt dรฉvoile son premier album, Reflets du temps : Un hommage vibrant aux compositrices au cours des siรจcles

    Montrรฉal, 13 janvier 2025 โ€“ Le Quatuor Cobalt, ensemble ร  cordes montrรฉalais, annonce la sortie de son premier album, Reflets du temps, disponible le 17 janvier 2025, sous le label indรฉpendant canadien GFN Classics. Ce projet unique prรฉsente une collection dโ€™ล“uvres cรฉlรฉbrant la diversitรฉ du rรฉpertoire pour quatuor ร  cordes avec trois compositrices exceptionnelles mรฉconnues…

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  • GFN Productions & Fortรฉ Art And Music Presents: Dragon, A Concerto for Pipa

    We are thrilled to announce the release of the CD โ€œDragon โ€“ Concerto for Pipa,โ€ produced by GFN Productions and Fortรฉ Art & Music. The first pipa concerto composed in the Western world, this remarkable work by Quebec composer Christian Thomas is performed by the internationally renowned virtuoso Liu Fang. Described as โ€œthe empress of…

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  • How Disneyโ€™s Fantasound Brought Surround Sound to Hollywood in 1940

    In the late 1930s, when Hollywood was still refining synchronized sound, Walt Disney had an audacious idea. He wanted to create an animated film that not only brought classical music to the masses but did so in a way that allowed audiences to feel like they were immersed in the music itself. Enter Fantasiaโ€”a revolutionary…

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  • NAD Electronics Launches New C 700 V2 BluOS Streaming Amplifier

    Latest generation of NAD’s popular compact, value-driven โ€œjust add speakersโ€ solution upgraded with ESS Sabre DAC, MM phono input, Dirac Live readiness, and Dolby Digital decoding.

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  • Feng-Shui Hi-Fi’s Sound Revolution: Harmonizing Music & Chi

    Feng-Shui Hi-Fi Debuts Cutting-Edge Audio Tech: Because Chi is the New High Fidelity Ever paused your favorite track to consider if your speakers might prefer facing the door rather than your sofa? Or if your subwoofer wants to align with the roomโ€™s energy flow? Welcome to the world of Feng-Shui Hi-Fi, where the traditional audio…

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  • Should You Get a Surround Sound System?

    “Thereโ€™s plenty of quality content available in surround sound for music and movies. Why not take advantage of it?”

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  • De-Kloss-ified: Decoding the Genius of Henry Kloss

    In the sleepy town of Altoona, Pennsylvania, during the twilight of the Roaring Twenties, a future luminary of sound, Henry Kloss, entered the world. Born on February 21, 1929, Kloss was handy with tools from a young age. In his childhood, he was known for his precocious building skills, adding fixtures and even rooms to…

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  • What Is Spatial Audio on Apple Music? Also, How To Turn It On!

    Curious about spatial audio on Apple Music? Find out how to activate this cutting-edge technology and enjoy a new level of audio immersion.

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  • Cutting-Edge Home Theater Performance at High End Munich 2023

    Dirac, StormAudio, and Perlisten Team Up to Showcase the Cutting-Edge of Home Theater Performance at High End Munich 2023. MUNICH, GERMANY, May 11, 2023 โ€” Swedish audio pioneer Dirac has teamed up with luxury audio heavyweights StormAudio and Perlisten to showcase the most high-performing and immersive home theater demo ever delivered at High End Munich.…

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  • Introducing Focalโ€™s new Theva line of loudspeakers

    Designed for your first foray into pure high-fidelity sound. Axpona (Shaumburg, IL) โ€“ April 12, 2023 โ€“ Focal introduces Theva; a new range of loudspeakers combining pure hi-fi sound, design and accessibility. Renowned for its savoir-faire in sound, the French brand has designed, developed and manufactured the six-model range to span the spectrum of Hi-Fi…

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  • KEF releases latest generation R Series

    Now featuring the ground-breaking Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MATโ„ข) Marlboro, NJ โ€“ February 7, 2023: Once again, KEF is redefining soundscapes with the latest generation of the R Series HiFi Speakers, now featuring the ground-breaking Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MATTM). The R Series is an exceptional seven-model range engineered to provide superior performance with more detail, deeper…

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  • The new Beatles Revolver Special Edition remaster. Just wow.

    The Beatles had suddenly disappointed me. Sure, in 1966 I was just a kid, but Iโ€™d been a fan of the group since the beginning. Iโ€™d spent hours hunched over my little blue and white 45 RPM record player playing the 7-inch singles of โ€œI Want to Hold Your Handโ€ and โ€œShe Loves Youโ€ over…

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  • In Search of audio at CEDIA Expo 2022

    Long ago are the days when CEDIA could be considered, among other things, a high-end audio industry show. Now itโ€™s mostly for designers, sellers, and installers of various home and commercial electronics products that revolve around home automationโ€”the Smart Home segment.

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  • The Montrรฉal Audiofestโ€”an American in Montreal

    Audio show enthusiast and writer Mike Harkins travelled from his home in Austin, Texas, to the Canadian province of Quebec to visit the Montrรฉal Audiofest, where he found the temperature in March to be a bit nippy. Welcome up North, Mike. Mike took down notes and took pictures at the show which he graciously allowed…

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