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A Pair of
Audible Illusions and Some Reliable Capacitors by Marc Mickelson | June 22, 2024 |
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"A
Timing Machine": Adding the dCS Lina Master Clock by Vance Hiner | August 17, 2023 |
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First Sounds: dCS Bartók Apex by Vance Hiner | May 30, 2023 |
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First Sounds: Wilson Audio Acoustic Diode by Marc Mickelson | July 22, 2022 |
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First Sounds:
dCS Bartók 2.0 by Vance
Hiner | June 23, 2022 |
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Beethoven's Triple Concerto: Why Slum It with
One Soloist When You Can Live It Up with Three? by Roy Gregory | January 31, 2022 |
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First Sounds: Chord Company GroundARAY
by Roy Gregory | July 26, 2021 |
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First Sounds: Audio Research
Reference Phono 3 SE
by Dennis Davis | June 15, 2021 |
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First Sounds: Wilson Audio
Pedestal
by Marc Mickelson | May 11, 2021 |
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Much of What You've Wanted
to Know about Mercury Living Presence
by Marc Mickelson | May 7, 2021 |
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Classics on Vinyl from Warner Classics
by Roy Gregory | April 27, 2021 |
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First Sounds: Arya Audio
RevOpods
by Roy Gregory | January 12, 2021 |
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Stairway to Heaven? Applying the Modular Approach to CH Precision's C1/D1
Digital System
by Roy Gregory | July 30, 2020 |
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First Sounds: Lyra Atlas Lambda
by Dennis Davis | July 15, 2020 |
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What I'd Recommend to a Friend: Denon DL-103R
by Vance Hiner | June 17, 2020 |
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Music For Staying Put
by The Audio Beat | March 26,
2020 |
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Natural Expansion: Going True Monaural with
the CH Precision P1 Phono Stage
by Roy Gregory | March 9, 2020 |
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A Survey of Five Integrated
Amplifiers, Part 2
by Roy Gregory | December 13, 2019 |
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A Survey of Five Integrated
Amplifiers, Part 1
by Roy Gregory | December 7, 2019 |
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First Sounds: Shunyata Research Denali
D6000/S v2
by Marc Mickelson | November 15, 2019 |
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First Sounds: AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt
by Dennis Davis | October 28, 2019 |
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Fifty Years of Magnepan
by Marc Mickelson | September 17, 2019 |
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Variation on a Theme: A DIY IKEA Aptitlig
Isolation Platform
by Marc Mickelson | February 15, 2019 |
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IsoTek's Full System Enhancer Kit
by Roy Gregory | January 28, 2019 |
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What I'd Recommend to a Friend: Nordost
SuperFlatline
by Roy Gregory | December 12, 2018 |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Installing
Wilson Audio Alexx Speakers and Thor’s Hammer Subwoofers in a New Room
by Roy Gregory | December 7, 2018 |
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Roy's New Rooms
by Dennis Davis | December 7, 2018 |
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First Sounds: Timestep T-612
by Roy Gregory | September 26, 2018 |
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First Sounds: Furutech NCF Booster
by Roy Gregory | September 26, 2018 |
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Celebrating Rafael Kubelík
by Richard Freed | September 4, 2018 |
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First Sounds: Zanden Audio AP-1 and AT-2
by Mark Blackmore | August 21, 2018 |
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And Yet More of the Best Music You May Have
Missed
by Vance Hiner | July 30, 2018 |
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First Sounds: Kuzma CAR-60
by Roy Gregory | June 23, 2018 |
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Introducing TuneTot
by Marc Mickelson | May 10, 2018 |
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What I'd Recommend to a Friend: Genesis
Digital Lens
by John Crossett | April 20, 2018 |
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Still More of the Best Music You May Have
Missed
by Vance Hiner | December 27, 2017 |
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What I'd Recommend to a Friend: VPI HW19
by Roy Gregory | December 18, 2017 |
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First Sounds: Wilson Audio Alexia 2
by Marc Mickelson | December 14, 2017 |
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What I'd Recommend to a Friend: Scansonic MB-1
by Roy Gregory | November 10, 2017 |
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Accessorize! Zanden Audio's TPM-1 and ZVA-1
by Marc Mickelson | October 9, 2017 |
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Facing What You Don't Know: Audio Systems Optimized
by Vance Hiner | August 30, 2017 |
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Living Large: Wilson Audio Alexx and Thor's
Hammer
by Roy Gregory | August 25, 2017 |
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First Sounds: Furutech DeStat III
by Roy Gregory | August 16, 2017 |
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Even More of the Best Music You May Have
Missed
by Vance Hiner | July 11, 2017 |
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First Sounds: Silent Running Audio Craz³
by Marc Mickelson | June 21, 2017 |
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First Sounds: Grand Prix Audio Monaco 2.0
by Tim Aucremann | June 19, 2017 |
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The Necessary Link: Nordost's Valhalla 2 USB Cable
by Marc Mickelson | June 6, 2017 |
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First Sounds: Living Voice Avatar OBX-RW3
by Roy Gregory | May 12, 2017 |
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On Solid Ground: CAD Ground Control GC1 and Ground Control GC3
by Roy Gregory | April 24, 2017 |
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First Sounds: Stenheim Alumine Two
by Roy Gregory | March 1, 2017 |
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First Sounds: Wilson Audio Alexx
by Roy Gregory | February 7, 2017 |
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More of the Best Music You May Have Missed
by Vance Hiner | December 27, 2016 |
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Whaam!
by Roy Gregory | December 20, 2016 |
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Time Further Out: Listening to the Wilson
Audio WAMM Master Chronosonic
by Marc Mickelson | December 20, 2016 |
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A Wealth of Riches: Comparing the Audio Research Reference 10,
VTL TL-7.5 Series III Reference and Conrad-Johnson GAT Series 2 Preamps
by Roy Gregory | November 19, 2016 |
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First Sounds: Silent Running Audio Scuttle³
by Tim Aucremann | October 24, 2016 |
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Music On The Go: Phoning It In
by Dennis Davis | October 20, 2016 |
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First Sounds: Fidelizer Nimitra
by Roy Gregory | October 4, 2016 |
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From Stem to Stern: A Gryphon Audio System
by Roy Gregory | September 27, 2016 |
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Classics Online: For the Love of Classical Music
by Mark Blackmore | September 19, 2016 |
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First Sounds: Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri S2 and Model 125
by Roy Gregory | August 25, 2016 |
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This is the End: Music Matters' Final Titles by Marc Mickelson | August 19, 2016 |
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Diamond Dogs: Adding Subs to a VTL/Wilson System
by Roy Gregory | August 12, 2016 |
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Going Color Blind: Exploring Ortofon's 2M Lineup
by Marc Mickelson | August 1, 2016 |
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The Best
Music You May Have Missed
by Vance Hiner | June 22, 2016 |
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Audio Fidelity Improved
Flat: A Record Flattener With All of the Answers?
by Roy Gregory | May 4, 2016 |
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First
Sounds: Living Voice Vox Palladian/Vox Basso
by Roy Gregory | April 29, 2016 |
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Hi-Fi
Video: Nordost's Heimdall 2 4K UHD Cable
by Marc Mickelson | April 26, 2016 |
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American
Recording Premieres of Tchaikovsky Symphonies: Still Engaging After All These Years
by Richard Freed | March 19, 2016 |
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Dare to Compare:
Wireworld's Headphone Cable Polygraph
by Marc Mickelson | February 22, 2016 |
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Hedging Your Bets:
Why High End Should Be About More Than High Prices
by Roy Gregory | February 19, 2016 |
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The
Ultimate Jazz Collection: Considering the Law of Unintended Consequences
by Roy Gregory | January 25, 2016 |
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First
Sounds: Art Loudspeakers Alnico 12
by Roy Gregory | January 4, 2016 |
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First Sounds:
Harmonic Resolution Systems RXR and R-Shelf
by Roy Gregory | December 30, 2015 |
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Rolling
the Dice with the Monaco 1.5
by Tim Aucremann | December 23, 2015 |
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Shunyata
Research: Bringing New Meaning to the Term Critical Performance Factors
by Roy Gregory | December 5, 2015 |
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Four
Play: Moving-Magnet Cartridges from Ortofon, The Cartridge Man, Nagaoka
and VPI/SoundSmith
by Kevin Walker | November 24, 2015 |
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Inside the
Spiral Groove SG1.2
by Dennis Davis | November 12, 2015 |
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JitterBugging
by Vance Hiner | October 27, 2015 |
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First
Sounds: Fono Acustica Sinfo
by Roy Gregory | October 20, 2015 |
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First Sounds: Audio Research Reference 150 SE
by Roy Gregory | September 19, 2015 |
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First Sounds:
Naim NAP 300 DR
by Roy Gregory | August 29, 2015 |
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What I'd Recommend to a Friend: Logitech Squeezebox Touch
by Rad Bennett | August 24, 2015 |
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Strange
Bedfellows
by Roy Gregory | August 18, 2015 |
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First
Sounds: Concrete Audio N1
by Roy Gregory | July 30, 2015 |
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The Brave New World of
System Optimization
by Roy Gregory | July 22, 2015 |
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First Sounds:
Wilson Audio Sabrina
by Marc Mickelson | July 18, 2015 |
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First Sounds:
Shunyata Research Hydra Triton v2
by Tim Aucremann | July 7, 2015 |
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What
I'd Recommend to a Friend: Pioneer Elite DV-79AVi
by John Crossett | June 11, 2015 |
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The Hard Way:
Nordost's Blue Heaven HDMI Cable
by Marc Mickelson | May 9, 2015 |
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First Sounds: booplinth
by Roy Gregory | May 4, 2015 |
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Little or
Large?
by Roy Gregory | April 4, 2015 |
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Why Everything You
Thought You Knew Is Wrong, Or . . .
If Dr. Frankenstein Created a Tonearm
by Roy Gregory | February 10, 2015 |
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The Vinyl
Revival Reaches Current Classical Releases
by Roy Gregory | November 18, 2014 |
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HP: Reflecting On (and
Reflecting) His Legacy
by Roy Gregory | November 6, 2014 |
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Remembering
Harry
by Paul Bolin | November 6, 2014 |
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First Sounds:
Magnepan 3.7i/DWM Speaker System
by Marc Mickelson | October 1, 2014 |
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Smoothing the
Way: Heed Orbit 2 Turntable Power Supply
by Roy Gregory | September 17, 2014 |
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Happy
Feet: Bamboo Cable Risers from HighEndCable.co.uk
by Roy Gregory | September 4, 2014 |
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SACD at 15
by John Crossett | August 30, 2014 |
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The Other Side of
Audio Reviewing
by Roy Gregory | August 27, 2014 |
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Blasts From the
Past? The New Generation of Direct-Drive Turntables
by Roy Gregory | August 21, 2014 |
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The Best Things
in Life Are (Almost) Free: IKEA's Aptitlig Chopping Boards
by Roy Gregory | August 13, 2014 |
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First Sounds:
Ayre DX-5 DSD
by Marc Mickelson | July 17, 2014 |
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VPI's
3D-Printed Tonearm Upgrade
by Roy Gregory | July 11, 2014 |
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The Road to
Vinyl Addiction is Paved with. . .Vinyl
by Robert Pincus | June 14, 2014 |
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Back to the Good Old
Bad Old Days: Johanna Martzy LP Reissues
by Roy Gregory | June 11, 2014 |
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Memories of Lenny
by Leonard Bloom | April 11, 2014 |
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A Transport of
Delight: CEC's TL 3N
by Roy Gregory | March 17, 2014 |
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The King is Dead:
IKEA Kills the Expedit
by Roy Gregory | March 4, 2014 |
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All the World's a
STAGE
by Roy Gregory | February 14, 2014 |
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First Sounds:
Nordost Valhalla 2
by Dennis Davis | January 6, 2014 |
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Music Matters
Changes Speeds
by Dennis Davis | December 10, 2013 |
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Ten Christmas
Gifts for Audiophiles Who Have (Almost) Everything
by Roy Gregory | December 9, 2013 |
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Soundsmith Counter
Intuitive VPI JWM Modification
by Roy Gregory | December 9, 2013 |
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First Sounds:
The Mystery Maggie
by Marc Mickelson | December 3, 2013 |
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Hiding in Plain Sight
by Roy Gregory | November 25, 2013 |
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Throwing
Open the Window on System Performance: Achieving Proper Speaker Placement
The Audio Beat's RMAF/TAVES 2013 Seminars
by Roy Gregory | November 7, 2013 |
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Home Business
2.0
by Marc Mickelson | October 4, 2013 |
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First
Sounds: Audio Research SP20
by Marc Mickelson | September 19, 2013 |
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Mr. Record
at THE Show Newport Beach
by Robert Pincus | July 15, 2013 |
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The Tease of
Show Reports, or My System Search Begins
by Jim Saxon | July 12, 2013 |
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How Close is Close
Enough? The Acoustical Systems SMARTractor
by Roy Gregory | June 19, 2013 |
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Four Seasons in
One Day: An All-Too-Brief Encounter with Half the dCS Vivaldi Stack
by Roy Gregory | June 12, 2013 |
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Building a
Firm Foundation: A Strategic Approach to System Optimization
by Roy Gregory | May 1, 2013 |
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The
Objectivity of Subjectivity: A Philosopher Considers Audio Reviews
by Eric Hetherington | March 21, 2013 |
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Something
Wicked This Way Comes: Kuzma Stabi M
by Roy Gregory | March 6, 2013 |
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Going for
Broke: Wilson Benesch Wheels Out the Big Guns
by Roy Gregory | February 27, 2013 |
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When Great Music Goes
Bad
by Roy Gregory | January 24, 2013 |
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Mr. Record
Goes on the Record About Audio Shows
by Robert Pincus | January 4, 2013 |
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Young Love by Roy Gregory | December 6, 2012 |
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Covering the Beatles by Marc Mickelson | November 21, 2012 |
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Tempting Titles From Somewhere Else by Roy Gregory | November 19, 2012 |
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Introducing Mr. Record by Robert Pincus | November 5, 2012 |
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The Audio Beat's System Setup and Optimization Seminar:
What We Did, What It Did, and Why It Worked by Roy Gregory | October 24, 2012 |
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The Audio Beat's System Setup and Optimization Seminar by Roy Gregory | October 3, 2012 |
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Trouble Comes A-Knockin': The Untold Story of One Review by Roy Gregory | September 19, 2012 |
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Getting Back to the Source: More on Demagnetization by Roy Gregory | September 11, 2012 |
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Exorcizing System Demons by Marc Mickelson | September 7, 2012 |
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Mobile Fidelity, Past and Present by Marc Mickelson | July 20, 2012 |
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Is New Necessarily Better? by Roy Gregory | July 14, 2012 |
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Weighty Matters: Stillpoints Ultra LP Isolator by Roy Gregory | July 4, 2012 |
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To Munich and Back With the PSB M4U 2 Headphones by Dennis Davis | June 20, 2012 |
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First Sounds: Audio Research Reference 75 by Paul Bolin | May 26, 2012 |
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Music Matters Marches On by Marc Mickelson | May 25, 2012 |
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Riding High with the Dynavector DRT XV-1t by Marc Mickelson | May 22, 2012 |
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The Grail Quest: Searching for Superior Single-Box SACD Sound by Roy Gregory | April 26, 2012 |
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Havergal Brian’s Gothic Symphony:
Additions & Corrections by
Richard Freed | April 12, 2012 |
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We Didn't Know How Good We Had It: Thoughts on Maggie
Dealer-Direct and the Mini Maggie System by Marc Mickelson | March 26, 2012 |
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Positive Discrimination: Righting EQ Wrongs with the Allnic H-3000V by Roy Gregory | March 21, 2012 |
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Get Your Deccas Here by Marc Mickelson | February 10, 2012 |
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Small Wonders: Further Thoughts by Roy Gregory | January 9, 2012 |
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Remembering Sheila Weisfeld by Roy Gregory | December 22, 2011 |
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Small Wonders by Roy Gregory | December 16, 2011 |
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Dealer-Direct: The Answer to "But Where Can I Hear It?" by Marc Mickelson | December 9, 2011 |
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Beauty in Simplicity by Paul Bolin | December 8, 2011 |
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DSD Over USB: An Open Standard by Chris Thomas | November 8, 2011 |
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BMC: Uncommon Execution of New Ideas by Marc Mickelson | September 29, 2011 |
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Harmonia Mundi: One to Cherish by Roy Gregory | September 15, 2011 |
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Focal and Naim: The Beginning of the End? by Roy Gregory | August 22, 2011 |
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Magnepan's 3.7/Tri-Center System: The Second Time Around by Marc Mickelson | August 11, 2011 |
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Cable Burn-In: The Missing Link, or How to Toast Your Tonearm by Roy Gregory | August 5, 2011 |
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First Sounds: Listening to the Reference 250s by Marc Mickelson | July 26, 2011 |
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Furutech's Phono Cables: Master Class and Beyond by Marc Mickelson | July 20, 2011 |
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Roy's Room by Dennis Davis | June 29, 2011 |
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OSIRES and Magnepan: Reinforcing Music-Making by Dennis Davis | May 17, 2011 |
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MoFi Flying High by Dennis Davis | May 1, 2011 |
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Analog by Allnic by Marc Mickelson | March 2, 2011 |
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MA-1 Mk 3.1: More Than
"Another Upgrade" by
Tim Aucremann | February 16, 2011 |
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Over the Bridge: A Shortcut to Computer Audio by Marc Mickelson | December 28, 2010 |
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First Sounds: Cabasse Pacific 3 and L'Ocean by Jason Kennedy | December 6, 2010 |
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Love is a Three-Channel Word by John Crossett | October 27, 2010 |
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A Witness to DTCD by Marc Mickelson | September 24, 2010 |
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Off-the-Grid Audio by Marc Mickelson | September 13, 2010 |
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Music in Mind by Paul Bolin | August 10, 2010 |
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Casual Revelations: Audio Research's Reference Anniversary
Preamplifier by Paul Bolin |
July 1, 2010 |
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Chess Boxing with a Craz² by Marc Mickelson | June 3, 2010 |
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Confessions of a Cautious
Objectivist: Zanzibar & Linearity by Allen Edelstein | May 28, 2010 |
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WATT/Puppy Then, Sasha Now by Marc Mickelson | April 22, 2010 |
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The Garden of edenSound by Marc Mickelson | March 30, 2010 |
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Video for Audio: Michael Fremer's 21st Century Vinyl and It's
a Vinyl World, After All by
Marc Mickelson | February 18, 2010 |
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No.15 is No.1 by
Marc Mickelson | January 22, 2010 |
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Magnepan's Tri-Center: The Sound of Things to Come for Home
Theater? by Marc Mickelson |
November 25, 2009 |
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Vivid Speakers, Vivid Music by Marc Mickelson | November 13, 2009 |
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Facets of Excellence • A Brief Comment by Paul Bolin | November 9, 2009 |
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Setting Up Sashas by Marc Mickelson | October 23, 2009 |
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On the Lamm Again by Paul Bolin | October 12, 2009 |
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Remembering Jim Thiel by Marc Mickelson | October 1, 2009 |
