Subwoofers: Active or Passive – They Take the Low Road Subwoofers are speakers designed to reproduce the sounds lower in frequency than the system’s woofer can handle. To extend the…
Best Bookshelf Speakers of the Golden Age
You can enjoy a vintage system that sounds better than a modern system and costs less. The best bookshelf speakers from the Golden Age of Audio (late 1960’s through early 1980’s) were…
The Golden Age of Audio
Today’s typical music system consists of a pair of headphones and an MP3 player or an audio streaming device like a phone or computer. If the listener wants to share the tunes with others…
The March of Convenience – Wireless Speakers as the New Frontier
The Elegant Music Room Once upon a time, if you wanted to listen to music, you either had to have the means and talent to make music at home, or you had to go to a concert hall or other…
Don't Touch That Knob!
There are a variety of reasons why some listeners can’t or don’t want to adjust the tone controls that are fixtures on most consumer receivers, integrated amps and pre-amps. The most…
The best laid plans...
…of mice and men often go awry. With apologies to Robert Burns for appropriating his words and wisdom and to you for missing our date last week, but I hope that once you read the…
