Halving sound-pressure amplitude takes 6 dB, while a perceived halving of loudness is often closer to 10 dB. Add 10 dB to the ...

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Sold as the Orsefon GL-005, the copy carries the same 75-watt rating as the McIntosh. In some tube configurations, though, it produced roughly 2.1 watts into an 8-ohm load before distortion climbed ...

For instance, one front-panel chip in Emotiva’s amplifier line dropped out of supply three times in roughly two years, ...

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Neither of them grew fastest. That distinction belongs to a catch-all category the Recording Industry Association of America ...

The album’s version history is almost as interesting as its marketing. The original US edition included five Eric Thorngren ...

Mode choice moves the published numbers by a wide margin, which is the one thing a spec-reading beginner must absorb.

Hi-fi buyers often compare brands as if each one stands on its own. In reality, many familiar names now sit inside the same corporate groups. We traced the ownership of 91 well-known brands and found ...

Twelve songs, one working day. Marty Robbins recorded the whole album at Bradley Studios in Nashville in a single eight-hour ...

The comparison has limits, though, as The Odyssey uses gold-marble rather than solid gold-colored vinyl, the test covers one ...

Alexandra Plesa is an Audio Writer at Headphonesty. She has more than 10 years of journalistic experience. Deeply immersed in music and audiobooks, she has honed her expertise in evaluating audio ...