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Farther down the faceplate, still within the oval depression, sits another, smaller meter, looking like a frowning Powerpuff Girl; it lights up the same vaguely old-fashioned way when power is applied. There are no indications on this meter except a curved line with a dot in the middle.

A freelance reviewer's workload is erratic. On the odd occasion one might have a few moments' respite, while at other times the coincidence of multiple deadlines for copy results in several weeks of panic...

When it comes to video, most audiophiles are insufferable snobs. These normally reasonable people, who are among the first to admit that great sound in a motion picture theater makes a great film much more enjoyable, nonetheless...

This disc is an under-acknowledged classic—or at least, in a just world, it would be a classic. The sound is overwhelming: Delmoni plays a 1780 J.B. Guadagnini violin, and it's a cannon! The instrument's sound is bold and bright, and the Chapel of Christ the King at St....

Stereophile is happy to start off another year, only one issue behind our published schedule. For most magazine subscribers, this would seem a confession of weakness; underground aficionados will, however, know what I'm talking about...

PMC user-endorsers include artists like Brian May of Queen and Robbie Williams (the latter more popular in the UK than in the US), among dozens of other celebrities listed in the company's sumptuous, full-color brochures—Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Coldplay, Kraftwerk, Brian (sic) Ferry, Prince, ...

The formula has been applied, with apparent success, to a number of subsequent products, the latest being the PrimaLuna DiaLogue Seven monophonic tubed amplifier ($5495/pair), which offers 70Wpc in ultralinear mode or 40Wpc when run as a triode amp—and does so in a mildly remarkable way.

That's how it used be done, when audio's alternative press was green in judgment...

The article was not concerned with panel resonances, but rather with suppressing the delayed output and cabinet resonances produced by the woofer's back wave. Dr...

I requested a pair of ATC's SCM 11 passive monitors because its price of $1750/pair in real cherry veneer (or $1850/pair in black ash) fit into my quest to find affordable systems in the $2500–$3750 range....

But a funny thing happened. MP3s may have sounded mediocre, but they accustomed the mainstream to regard the personal computer as another source of music. And if you can play MP3s on your PC, why not files of higher resolution...

For many in the new world, the sinuous melodic lines and infinite variety of dark harmonic shading produced by the exotic oud define the term Middle Eastern music...