Blogs
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TAS Editor-in-Chief and Magicos Founder at Overture Event this Saturday
|Here’s a gentle reminder about an upcoming opportunity to meet and greet Robert Harley, Editor-in-Chief of the absolute sound, as well as Alon Wolf, the creator of the Magico M5 at Overture Ultimate Audio/Video on ...read more -
Sign of The Times: Stereophile's Parent Company Declares Bankruptcy
|According to Bloomberg.com (see http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aDmRedq9AdQo&refer=us), Source Interlink--the parent company of 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords, Lowrider, Street Chopper, Soap Opera Digest, and Stereophile (among others)--"sought bankruptcy protection as it moves to become a private company." ...read more -
Bare Naked Cables from Tara Labs
|There is a bit of a myth that says that the Cable Wars didn't really start in earnest until Bob Fulton came along with his first custom numbers back in the late 70s. That's true ...read more -
The Smyth Realiser A-8 or How I Learned to Love Virtualization, Part 2
|The Smyth Realiser arrives as a bundle that includes the A-8, headtracker modules, Stax SR-202 headphones and driver unit and the necessary connectors and cabling. So what’s the difference between the Realiser and the Dolby ...read more -
Speaker Maker ScanSpeak Back in Danish Hands
|If you own a high-end loudspeaker, there's a good chance that some of the drivers were made by the Danish firm ScanSpeak. The company was known for years as building the creme de la creme ...read more -
How Does Harmonia Mundi Continue to Thrive?
|With the reported demise of Telarc Records (see HP’s recent blog), the Tower Records bankruptcy, and classical music sales down some 30% in the past year, things were beginning to look pretty bleak for the ...read more -
The Smyth Realiser A-8 or How I Learned to Love Virtualization; Part One
|A couple of days ago I drove out to a modest industrial park in Camarillo, California where I was to meet with Lorr Kramer of Smyth Research. The purpose was to receive a full-on, no-holds-barred ...read more -
Sneak Preview of TAS Features and Reviews
|Sneak Preview of Upcoming TAS Features and Reviews Robert Harley Although it’s mid-April (and snowing in New Mexico as I write this!), I have on the drawing board issue plans for The Absolute Sound through ...read more -
The Last Days of Telarc
|While Telarc Records, as we knew it, did not officially cease to exist on the last day of March, it will only be a shell of its former self. As one of its principals put ...read more -
Analog Versus Digital: Another Perspective
|Take a look at these two pictures: Given the small difference in the angle from which they were taken and the larger one in the time of day they were taken at (the first was ...read more -
The $2000 CD Made From Glass
|The $2000 CD Made from Glass Robert Harley Japanese CD manufacturer Memory-Tech is offering to replicate CDs made from glass rather than the conventional polycarbonate. The rationale? Glass CDs sound better. Memory-Tech calls the discs ...read more -
"Music is a basic need for human survival."
|Editor's Note: TAS' esteemed founder, HP, brought this wonderful speech given by Karl Paulnack, the Director of the Music Division at The Boston Conversatory, to my attention. We thought it would be of interest to ...read more -
First Look: The New All Tube V-60 From Vincent Audio
|I unpacked the triple-boxed Vincent Audio V-60 integrated amplifier the other day and what a beauty she is. As the images show, this all-tube 60Wpc amp has a look that is equal parts homage to ...read more -
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off!
|For the last six months I’ve been listening to the best solid-state amplifiers I’ve yet heard in my home: the Soulution 710 stereo and 700 monoblock. This gear (coupled with Soulution’s superb 720 full-function preamp ...read more -
First Look: Sonics New Amerigo Speaker
|I caught my first glimpse of the all-new Amerigo from Sonics by Joachim Gerhard at last years Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and was able to have a further listen at CES. I liked what I ...read more