Extra conversion and uneven results across listening seats remain separate concerns that ART’s narrower approach cannot ...

A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with no dedicated DAC chip sounds like a contradiction. XMOS has built one anyway. Its ...

Expensive CD players can still depend on optical hardware designed for computers. Naim has never identified the drive mechanism or maker inside its £3,499 (US$5,699) Uniti Star. But in another part of ...

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

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Across the five Bang & Olufsen (B&O) models Best Buy carries, 279 owner verdicts include 30 rated one or two stars, and every ...

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

BBC Music Magazine placed the Klemperer at No. 27 in its 50 Greatest Recordings of All Time. Popp’s Der Hölle Rache supplies ...

Very-low-frequency measurements deserve another layer of caution. NANR45 notes that under the BS7580 verification procedure ...