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The Past, Present, and Future of Digital
|May 31 - The 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc is approaching and The Absolute Sound is commemorating this milestone with a special issue focused on digital. The September issue of TAS includes reviews of ...read more -
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The Absolute Sound Insider with Robert Harley
|<font face="Times New Roman">May 8 - Reviewing two affordable loudspeakers for the next issue of The Absolute Sound (August) drove home a fundamental truth about high-end audio: The smaller your audio-system budget the more important ...read more -
Vinyl Lives!
|April 30 - The new issue of The Absolute Sound (Issue 172, June/July) just mailed, and I must say that I think it's one of our better efforts. We focus on LP-playing products, with reviews ...read more -
Why 5.1-Channel Sound?
|April 23 - We all take for granted the idea of "5.1-channel" sound for home theater, but what exactly is ".1" of a channel? We all know that the ".1" in 5.1-channel sound is the ...read more -
Amazon Fills Void in Classical Music
|April 13 - Tower Records was the leading outlet for deep-catalog classical music and a favorite place to discover new artists and recordings. But the company's recent demise makes it even harder for classical fans ...read more -
Audiophile Movie
|April 12 - All the joy, passion, and foibles of high-end audio are brilliantly documented in a 20-minute film created by Ken Barns. The Audiophile Club of Athens features interviews with high-end enthusiasts showing their ...read more -
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Best-Selling Recording Artists in History
|June 6 - I was digging around in the CD-sales data for an upcoming article commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc, when I stumbled upon a fascinating chart on the web site of ...read more -
MartinLogan Enthusiasts to Converge on Kansas
|June 8 - An independently run Web site for owners of MartinLogan electrostatic loudspeakers (www.martinloganowners.com) has organized a meeting at MartinLogan's factory in Lawrence, Kansas on June 23 - 25. The event was planned and ...read more -
The Year's Most Eagerly Anticipated Product Introduction: Revel Ultima Salon 2
|June 29 - One of the most anticipated product launches in recent memory is the new Ultima Salon2 loudspeaker from Revel. The original Ultima Salon, launched nearly ten years at the company's creation, was extremely ...read more -
Discovering a great bargain
|July 2 - The most rewarding aspect of reviewing great hi-fi is discovering products that are stunning great at a reasonable price. It's rare for a product to stand out as being clearly superior to ...read more -
Upcoming in The Absolute Sound
|July 5 - Our special feature on the state of digital audio (Issue 174) includes a retrospective in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc's US launch. My editorial in that issue laments ...read more -
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TAS Insider: New Technology Reads Record Grooves by Computer
|July 16 - "It's like a photocopy machine for sound." A new technology being tested at the Library of Congress makes it possible to extract audio signals from record grooves without playing them with a ...read more -
New Op-Amps Promise High-End Sound
|August 16 - A new generation of operational amplifiers (op-amps) and power-amplifier drivers from National Semiconductor might result in a wholesale improvement in sound quality across a wide range of audio products. Op-amps are everywhere: ...read more -
How to Choose the Best Loudspeaker
|(Excepted and adapted from Introductory Guide to High-Performance Audio Systems by Robert Harley © 2007 by Robert Harley. To order, call 800 888-4741 or visit hifibooks.com.) August 21 - Your first decision in choosing loudspeakers ...read more -
Luxman Returns to US Market after 25 Years
|September 20 - The venerable Japanese high-end audio manufacturer Luxman is re-launching the brand in the U.S. Although Luxman components have been in continuous production since the company's founding in 1925, the brand has been ...read more