No Matter What


  • How Much Power Is Enough?

    “Almost all speaker damage is a result of speakers being played too loudly for too long.”

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  • Rock Chronicles, Part 9 โ€” Badfinger’s Tragic Story Begins

    Badfingerโ€™s new album was both falling behind schedule and becoming more expensive, and the label rejected the initial session tapes

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  • Volumio launches Volumio AI: AI Music Discovery with the power of ChatGPT

    Harnessing the power of OpenAIโ€™s ChatGPT, Volumio AI delivers a revolution in music discovery. Innovative Italian audio company, Volumio โ€” creators of the award-winning Volumio Music Player ecosystem โ€” introduce Volumio AI, the latest version of their award-winning Volumio Music player application. Launched in 2013, the Volumio Music Player ecosystem has been built from the…

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  • T.H.E Show 2023

    Iโ€™ve been reporting on T.H.E. Show for PMA Magazine for 3 years now and every year Iโ€™ve been selecting PMAโ€™s Top 3 Rooms of the show.

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  • 3 Things I Learned Aboutโ€ฆ Interconnects

    Iโ€™m of the opinion that cable design is a thing, which is why some audio cables perform better than others, and you canโ€™t convince me otherwise. Iโ€™ve heard the differences.

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  • Metaxas & Sins: the Ferrari of audio

    If there’s a specialist audio company that better exemplifies the meeting point between high end audio performance and objet d’art aesthetic than Netherlands-based Metaxas & Sins, I don’t know about it.

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  • Arcade Fireโ€™s Richard Reed Parry: โ€œItโ€™s gotta find a way out.โ€

    Richard Reed Parry talks to PMA Magazineโ€™s Mark Lepage about family, punk, and Arcade Fire. โ€œI realized early on โ€˜Iโ€™m not like these other kidsโ€™,โ€ Richard Reed Parry says. No. โ€œThey were not getting up at 5 a.m. on May Day morning to dance around the maypole and sing as the sun rises.โ€ Yep, thatโ€™s…

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  • A conversation with my younger selfโ€”an audio fable

    Much younger, I used to listen to music without ever thinking about sound quality. It simply didnโ€™t dawn on me that a better sound quality could translate into more elevated musical experiences. My younger self was purely a music lover and unaware of the importance of sound quality. As they say, you donโ€™t know what…

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  • Hitting the right (audio) balance

    The human voice is an amazing thing. I can think of no other instrument that moves our emotions and soul as powerfully. The examples are endless: Freddie Mercury, Beyoncรฉ, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby McFerrin, Luciano Pavarotti, Ariana Grandeโ€ฆ Just take your pick. And itโ€™s not just singersโ€™ voices that we respond strongly to. How about the…

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