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Impedance
Your speaker’s impedance matters!! A very low impedance presents a very difficult, even dangerous task for your amp to drive. We’re always encouraging amps, like NADs at reasonable pricing, that are able to drive low impedances. With an NAD you can buy whatever speakers you like the sound of, with no worry as to their impedance. But NAD is unusually OUTSTANDING at…
Improve Your Streaming
When people buy new streaming products like NAD’s M33, C658, C700 or a Bluesound Node, we often get calls related to the streaming feature. The problems are almost never with the new products. The problems relate to DETAILS pertaining to your Internet provider and to a greater extent, your home’s network system. Streaming audio puts much more demand on your network than…
Vinyl Resurgence
The resurgence of vinyl is sure fun to see for us old goats, excuse me, veteran audiophiles. Young folks can hardly believe that LPs were our only format of quality up until 1982 when CDs made their mark. Yes we had pre-recorded cassettes & 8-Tracks, but I’ll stand my sentence #2. While the wave is riding high for vinyl, let’s look at…
Vikingur Olafsson
How Did He Make It As A Professional Classical Pianist? Vikingur Olafsson is a professional classical pianist. He’s 37 and at the top of his game. It took him a while to get there. It’s an interesting path. If you’re a great pro athlete, stats usually make it clear that you’re a stand out. At 18 Bryce Harper hit 22 homeruns and…
478 Listings With Some Mistakes
You know I love to chide the rags. Stereophile’s Oct 2021 issue lists 478 recommended products. Yowza! Most of these are indeed fine products. Here’s a word of warning though. Please be sure you read this while lying down in bed. If not, you’ll likely fall over and sustain a concussion as you read some of the ridiculous pricing and foolish rankings/omissions….
How Much Sub Do I Need?
Only I can answer this question. Because the question is “How much sub do I need?” I’m a music lover. I listen to music in 2.1, stereo with a subwoofer. I don’t want the sub to intrude into the rest of the music and muddy it up. My system is in the second floor loft of my house, which is a wooden…
Bi-Amping
What about bi-amping? When does it make sense to run two amps instead of one? Let’s massage the topic! The theory behind bi-amping is, it is better to run one amp for the mid & tweeter array and another for the woofers- as opposed to having one amp drive the whole tower and have to fight its way through a bigger crossover…