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  • TAF2023: Triangle, EverSolo, Perreaux, XLO, Tidal

    Prices listed in CA$. Something most of us can relate to is how important speaker placement is. When I entered retailer Elite Audioโ€™s room, it was immediately apparent the folks setting up this system knew how to position speakers in a difficult room. The speakers โ€” the chic-looking Triangle Magellan Cello 40th Anniversary Edition in…

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  • TAF2023: Vinyl Sound, Thorens, Accuphase, MoFi, Fleetwood, Furutech, Ortofon, Norstone

    Prices listed in CA$. Some systems sound so effortlessly musical, so capable of preserving the musicโ€™s essence and soul, that while listening to them I tell myself that Iโ€™d be happy living with such a system for a very long time. Accordingly, I tell myself that this is my type of system, this is the…

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  • An Interview with Andrรฉ Perry, legendary record producer and founder of the fabled Le Studio, Part 1

    This interview was initially released on June 25th 2022. Founder of Quebecโ€™s fabled Le Studio music studio and recipient of the Order of Canada and an honorary doctorate from Laval University, Andrรฉ Perry has worked with a whoโ€™s who of musical icons: John Lennon, Rush, Cat Stevens, The Police, the Bee Gees, Keith Richards, Roberta…

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  • Artistry in Audio: 9 Strikingly Unique Speakers

    Bowers & Wilkinsโ€™ Nautilus The Nautilusโ„ข loudspeaker by Bowers & Wilkins is as much a testament to cutting-edge design as it is to unparalleled sound. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this iconic speaker remains a symbol of craftsmanship and innovation, handmade by experts in the companyโ€™s Worthing, UK factory. With three standard colorsโ€”Midnight Blue, Black, and…

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  • Treasures from the Vinyl Vault, Part 4

    Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.

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  • Florida Audio Expo, 2023

    This yearโ€™s edition boasted 77 exhibits, with over 180 brands on display.

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  • Where did my music go? Signal loss, Pt 2

    Life is full of noise. Donโ€™t you want less of it from your system?

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  • Rock Chronicles, Part 7 โ€” Bobby Whitlockโ€™s Key to the Highway

    Having completed a tour in England that featured George Harrison and Eric Clapton as guest guitarists, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends returned to America to help Clapton finish his solo debut and embark on a four-month tour to support the album.

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  • Rock Chronicles, Part 5 โ€” Mad Dogs & Englishmen

    In our last episode, Joe Cocker had just fired the members of his Grease band after recording his newest album, Cocker! His manager, Dee Anthony, was looking forward to returning to the U.S. to promote the highly anticipated album that featured Cocker originals and unreleased Beatles songs.

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  • Triangle launches MAGELLAN 40th Anniversary loudspeaker rangeย 

    Designed from the ground up, featuring several new audio innovations, this range of speakers from the renowned French manufacturer is limited to 500 pairs per model. The MAGELLAN 40th Anniversary range comprises two floor-standing speakers, the Quatuor 40th and Cello 40th; the Duetto 40th bookshelf speakers; and the Voce 40th centre speaker. The new S08…

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  • MoFiโ€™s Alan Parsons Projectโ€™s Eye In The Sky – a review and a word about the MoFi controversy

    Having cut his teeth at age twenty as an assistant engineer on none other than the Beatles’s Abbey Road and Let It Be sessions, Parsons truly rose to prominence by engineering the landmark rock and audiophile favourite, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.

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  • Lowther Loudspeakers introduces its first speaker in 30 years – The Almira

    Northampton, UK:ย Lowther Loudspeakers, the well-known British speaker manufacturer, has announced its first brand-new speaker design in almost 30 years โ€“ the Almira. Following on from its revered Heritage Collection, Almira is a modern twist on a classic, preserving the clarity and scale of larger Lowther speaker cabinets, but with a more compact footprint. Long regarded…

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  • Treasures from the Vinyl Vault, Part 1

    Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.

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  • Diving into Disco, Part 6 โ€” Psychedelics and Funkydelics

    By 1967, the Motor City is still monopolizing the music charts and airwaves, cruising full speed ahead, rivaled only by Britain’s Fab Four. But thereโ€™s turbulence and static on the horizon stemming from a strong current blowing from the West Coast, along with inner tensions within Hitsville U.S.A., a.k.a. Motown Records.These combined factors would eventually…

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  • Rock Chronicles, Part 2 โ€” The adventures of Delaney & Bonnie

    Last you heard from me, husband-and-wife singing duo Delaney & Bonnie were working on their album Home, their first recording on the Memphis-based Stax label, between February and November of 1968. The general idea in the minds of the Stax executives was to create an album that would introduce the world to the โ€œfirst white…

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