Daily Archives: September 6, 2024

BorderPatrol Digital to Analogue Converter SE

The trouble with a classicist he looks at the sky He doesn’t ask why, he just paints a sky—John Cale and Lou Reed, “Trouble with Classicists,” from Songs for Drella Left brain/right brain, yin/yang, male/female, Apollonian/Dionysian, classical/romantic, painterly/linear, dark/light, hard/soft, warm/cool…I use these contrasting adjectives in my reviews because I feel some confidence in their […]

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Exposure CD Player

Exposure owner/designer John Farlowe graduated from the UK’s University of Sussex at the end of the swinging ’60s. He put his B.Sc in electronic engineering to use at HiWatt, manufacturers of tube guitar amplifiers. His keen interest in pro audio, particularly in sound reinforcement for rock bands, led him to Midas (studio mixing desks and […]

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Listening #207

The stars are matter. We are matter. But it doesn’t matter.—Don Van Vliet Only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it.—T.S. Eliot (writing about Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood) In the 17th century, steam engines began appearing throughout Europe and Asia, ushered into existence by any number of different inventors. More recently, multiple inventors conceived and […]

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PDM, PWM, Delta-Sigma, 1-Bit DACs John Atkinson

John Atkinson wrote about Bit Stream DACs in June 1989 (Vol.12 No.6): Following hard on the heels of Peter van Willenswaard’s report in the May issue that the Dutch company Philips had developed a 1-bit D/A converter that offered 16-bit resolution, called the “Bit Streamer,” I visited both Philips’ research laboratories (footnote 9) in Eindhoven, […]

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Michael Fremer enlivens impressive Audio-Ultra demos

Audio-Ultra, a Seattle-area (Sumner, Washington) dealership representing Magico, MSB, Taiko Audio, Kuzma, Vitus, StromTank, Equi=Tech, AudioQuest, Ansuz, and more, held an impressive two-day event November 12 and 13 at the Cedarbrook Lodge near SEATAC Airport. Of all the audio events I’ve attended over the years, this one, masterminded by Audio-Ultra’s Edward DeVito, made the most […]

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Music Reference RM-200 Mk.II power amplifier

In his “Manufacturer’s Comment” in response to my review of the original Music Reference RM-200 power amplifier in the April 2002 issue, designer Roger Modjeski admitted that being a manufacturer was not his first choice. “Frankly, I’d rather consult than produce,” he claimed. “I’d rather be making a living doing stand-up comedy,” I said to […]

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Bonnie Raitt, Blues Sister: Her Life And Times In Eight Songs

Heading Photo By Ebet Roberts When an icon drops her first album in six years, you sit up and take notice. Bonnie Raitt made her earliest record a half-century and more ago, in August 1971. She was 21 and could easily have been carded; the face on the cover of Bonnie Raitt—that first album—has yet […]

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Vignette Airs On TNA iMPACT Promoting Arrival Of Former WWE Superstar

Xia Zhao is “coming soon” to TNA Wrestling. During the post-TNA Emergence 2024 episode of TNA iMPACT on AXS TV and TNA+ on Thursday, September 5, 2024, a special vignette aired to promote the upcoming debut of a new talent. Click Here: Cheap France Rugby Jersey Going by the name “Xia Zhao,” former WWE Superstar […]

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Danse avec les stars : ces rapprochements sensuels que Philippe Candeloro a refusés dans l’émission

Ce vendredi 8 décembre, Philippe Candeloro a donné une interview exclusive au magazine Closer. L’occasion pour lui de revenir sur sa participation dans Danse avec les stars et de faire quelques révélations à ce sujet. En 2011, Philippe Candeloro participe à la deuxième saison de Danse avec les stars et finit deuxième de la compétition. […]

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AEW Dynamite Ratings Report (9/4): Total viewership and ten-week averages compared to one year ago and two years ago, plus key demo data

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Wednesday night’s (9/4) episode of AEW Dynamite on TBS averaged 660,000 viewers, compared to 691,000 the prior week and the 698,000 the week before that. The current ten-week rolling average is 694,000. One year ago this week, Dynamite drew 887,000 viewers. The ten-week rolling average […]

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