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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…
After PMA Magazine posted its inaugural “No, I have the best system in the world!”, a few willing participants answered our call to talk about their own audio journeys and “Best” system, 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,…
And yes, the title refers to me. I’m a cable guru, with a minor in tweaks and accessories which I’ll also be covering in this column.
Welcome to our new “Best audio systems for $10,000” series, in which we ask audio retailers to assemble a great system with an MSRP of around $10,000, cables and accessories included.
My setup has evolved over the last few years into one of the best I’ve ever heard anywhere, especially for one that hovers around the $50K mark, not an outlandish sum for a high-end setup.
Everything in life moves forward and the way classical music was recorded since the “Golden Age”—the mono and early stereo period—is no exception. How did the landscape change since then, and what does it mean to audio enthusiasts?
I vividly remember the first time I heard a high resolution file. It was a 24/96 download from HDtracks.com of Vivaldi’s Spring played by violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. It sounded amazing. But it got me thinking: was the better sound really due to the hi-res format or, rather, to the quality of the recording itself?…
Now that LPs are once again the biggest selling form of physical media, industry players large and small are getting into the LP game. Waiting times of nine months or more are now common at LP pressings plants. New artists who are smart about managing their careers routinely produce many limited-edition LPs in various colors.…
The point behind our new “No, I have the best system in the world!” series is not to have people brag about their system. Okay, it is, a bit, but it’s a bragging that I think we can all get behind. It’s a brag without braggadocio or pretention or saying that you need to spend…
I met Dave Frost, Business Development Manager and head of home audio export for British speaker manufacturer PMC Ltd.—a dream role, Dave calls it, that he managed to get six years ago with a little persistence and the help of a friend—in a snazzy resto-bar on the outskirts of Montreal, as part of his special…
Richard Reed Parry talks to PMA Magazine’s Mark Lepage about family, punk, and Arcade Fire. “I realized early on ‘I’m not like these other kids’,” Richard Reed Parry says. No. “They were not getting up at 5 a.m. on May Day morning to dance around the maypole and sing as the sun rises.” Yep, that’s…
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 I’ve pondered many times over during my years as a music editor in the sometimes blood sport universe of high-end…
First impressions All prices listed in USD My wife is not an audiophile. But as a classically trained pianist and a professional musician, she has ears for sound quality. It’s why I sometimes seek her opinion after changing something in my audio system. This year’s T.H.E. Show, held in Long Beach, was her first audio…
A recent article by PMA Magazine editor Robert Schryer got me wondering about when I began to think of music and audio — and, specifically, of myself as an audio hobbyist. The answer to “when” can’t be clearly defined by a single moment; it’s scattered across a handful of events that took place over a…
I’d heard about Paul Whitehead from my colleague Michel Plante, who clued me in that Paul is a California-based artist who paints wonderfully complex, spiritual, surrealistic art, who also did the artwork on three Peter Gabriel-era Genesis albums: Trespass, Nursery Cryme, and Foxtrot. Michel thought it’d be a good idea to interview Paul for PMA…