If you are a music or audio professional, the chances are good that you will have a room dedicated to music and its performance or reproduction. For the vast majority of music lovers there…
The introduction of “big” amplifiers (60 watts instead of 3 watts) at reasonable prices propelled the Golden Age of Audio. These amplifiers allowed a major change in speaker design and…
How Many Subwoofers is Best? 1, 2, 4, or More?
Zero would be a good number for a music only system with big full-range speakers. How big the speakers need to be is determined by the size…
Well, boys and girls, once upon a time there was the “Dark Age of Audio.” Music in the home was reproduced by things called Victrolas, Gramophones and other names, all had a turntable…
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…
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…