September 06, 2024 / By mobanmarket
Based in Bulgaria, European audio company Thrax has been active since 2009. Their ingenious and varied design approaches seen over several product lines have continued to intrigue me with their conceptual originality, innate musicality, and imaginative use of a broad spectrum of technologies. Their products range from valve (tube) amplification to digital audio and, more […]
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To accompany my review of the Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Progression monoblock amplifier elsewhere in this issue, I talked to Dan D’Agostino about the amplifier’s design. I started by asking him what were some of the major differences between the Momentum and the Progression monoblocks? Dan D’Agostino: I took the best parts of the […]
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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