Prices listed in US$. $10,000 is a lot of money to spend. Or not. It depends on what you get for your 10K. By the same token, what if that 10K is for an audio system? And when I say a system, I mean it has everything you need to listen to music: a pair…
KIN is all about providing audio solutions that are convenient, simple, versatile and technically up-to-date. The KIN Play Tower follows this tradition with more power, more connectivity and more functionality by providing more of the highly coveted qualities from the remarkable award-winning KIN Play. Multiple analog and digital sources can be physically connected, as well…
After PMA Magazine posted its inaugural โNo, I have the best system in the world!โ, a few willing participants answered our call to talk about their own audio journeys and โBestโ system,ย i.e. a system they felt had reached a certain level of performance they could live with for the long term. To do the series,…
Blind comparison tests use short-term memory, not long-term memory.ย Short-term memory can memorize at most seven different pieces of information simultaneously for a maximum duration of 30 seconds. No wonder this is the test of choice of cable deniers!
The point behind our new โNo, I have the best system in the world!โ series is not to have people brag about their system. Okay, it is, a bit, but itโs a bragging that I think we can all get behind. Itโs a brag without braggadocio or pretention or saying that you need to spend…
During the pandemic, like many music lovers between the ages of 7 and 77 who searched for new ways to entertain themselves at home, I bought a turntable. In the process, I succumbed to its musical charms […]
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…
Whoever said โthe best things in life are freeโ obviously never dabbled in high end audio. Thatโs not to say you canโt improve the sound of the system you already have with some judicious tweaking.
The High-Fidelity Scene Recording technology revolutionized how music is produced, played, and experienced. From the perspective of experiencing it, to the old model of attending a live concert was added the option of listening to a recorded performance. In this new model, the listenerโs role and situation were profoundly transformed; with recordings, listening has been…
ย ย ย ย As a youngster in the late sixties, I was keenly interested in music. Virtually every day, I came home from school, and after doing my homework, spent my afternoons hanging out at the familyโs Philco stereo console spinning LPs. My familyโs relatively meager collection of albums consisted mainly of Momโs selection of easy listening…