Rule #3: The loudspeaker and listener positions in the room affect the audibility of room resonant modes. Room resonant modes are reinforcements and cancellations at certain frequencies that create peaks and dips in the frequency ...

Rule #5: Listening height affects tonal balance. Most loudspeakers exhibit changes in frequency response with changes in listening height. These changes affect the midrange and treble, not the bass balance. Typically, the loudspeaker will be ...

April 9 - In 1912 the Victor Talking Machines Company paid opera star Enrico Caruso a whopping 25% royalty of the $2 retail price of each disc he recordedâan arrangement that earned Caruso $90,000 a ...

<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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...