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Eric Pye's Tohoku saga comes to a close in Hakodate, and some final thoughts about his Jazz Kissa journey through Japan.
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Eric Pye continues his trip north taking in the Jazz Kissas of Tohoku.
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Does it make sense to buy a vintage turntable? We explain why, what to look for and what to be aware of.
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Get the best sound from your turntable by upgrading its phono cartridge. Our buying guide cuts through the noise with purchasing options for any...
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Tohoku, which is located in the northern region of the Japanese island of Honshu is a treasure trove of Jazz Kissas. Eric Pye has...
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In 2024, our favorite mid-tier budget friendly floorstanding loudspeakers are from Q Acoustics, DALI, Magnepan, Wharfedale and Zu Audio.
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As the days in the Northeast, Northwest and Midwest get chillier and darker with fewer daylight hours, we tend to move indoors and spend...
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Figure 1 Then we moved the measuring microphone 1/2-inch to the side, off center from the sweet spot, and recorded another frequency-response curve. The...
Amplifiers
As Axiom’s chief R&D engineer Tom Cumberland describes it, a digital amplifier is a “power DAC”, and of course a DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) is...
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One of the most difficult-to-understand terms for newcomers (and even experienced enthusiasts) in audio and sound reproduction is the decibel, partly because it’s a...
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All receivers should have inputs for the full range of video connectors — composite, S-video, component video, and HDMI. With the popularity and standardization...
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Thinner and Thinner Thin was in (isn’t it always?), and Sharp, Sony and Samsung showed flat, ultra-thin displays less than 1 inch thick, some...
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Screen Size? Base your screen size on your viewing distance, your budget, and how much High Definition TV you expect to watch. As a...
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There’s a business school case study about the fledgling airline business in the early part of the 20th century. According to the story, after...
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Many of the best video cables on the market today were designed primarily for use in the digital domain; but can a digital cable...
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By now, everyone in our business has either read or knows about Steve Jobs’s essay, Thoughts on Music by Steve Jobs. (If you haven’t...
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by the Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition. (CERC – www.ceretailers.org) 1. When will the transition from analog to DTV broadcasting occur? The Congress has now...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. Big media players are accustomed to watching the ratings for the most popular music, video and book content, but...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. The phrase “free shipping” is like a siren song to many who shop on the Internet. For whatever reason,...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. Although Microsoft recently unveiled an ‘ultra-mobile personal computer,’ or UMPC, in a move to fill a market niche between...
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Reprinted with permission from Knowledge@Wharton. In the spring of 1980, “Dallas” ended its season with the biggest network television cliffhanger ever. Viewers waited all...
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by Alan Lofft, (bio), Axiom Audio When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played...
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