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March 28-30, 2014
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- Created: 30 March 2014 30 March 2014
A Tale of Two French Speakers -- Focal and LEEDH
High-end audio is built around extremes. The attention-grabbing companies generally build products that are large or expensive, or -- more commonly -- both. Great big amps. Refrigerator-sized speakers. Forearm-thick cables. Turntables that take three people to lift. It's all about wretched excess, conspicuous consumption, and one-upmanship.
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- Written by Jason Thorpe Jason Thorpe
- Parent Category: Salon Son & Image 2014 Salon Son & Image 2014
- Created: 30 March 2014 30 March 2014
Marvelous Muraudio
Adjectives like revolutionary, miraculous, and unparalleled are often bandied around in the audio world, but it's rare that the application of these labels is deserved. It's even rarer, in my experience, for a new company to spring up, fully formed, with a statement-level product to which such those terms clearly and obviously apply.
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- Written by Jason Thorpe Jason Thorpe
- Parent Category: Salon Son & Image 2014 Salon Son & Image 2014
- Created: 29 March 2014 29 March 2014
Game Changer? AVA's Rip-N-Play
These days there's a jillion different ways to skin the media-server cat, and most of them seem like mostly stop-gap efforts, requiring significant know-how or large chunks of Rube Goldberg-like system jiggering.
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- Written by Jason Thorpe Jason Thorpe
- Parent Category: Salon Son & Image 2014 Salon Son & Image 2014
- Created: 29 March 2014 29 March 2014
Rega: the Art of the Turntable
I arrived on Thursday night at the Hilton Bonaventure in Montreal, and it didn't take long for my partner, Marcia, and I to mosey down to the lobby bar for a beer. We settled down into our chairs and ordered, and as the buzz and disorientation from the five-hour drive wore off, I looked around at our surroundings.
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