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Secrets Q & A with Bryston CEO James Tanner
You’ve no doubt heard the news that venerable Canadian audio brand, Bryston has been sold. The new owners are not some obscure investment...
OpEd
OpEd
Dante: Networked AV Distribution – Q&A with Audinate’s Brad Price
Dante is an audio distribution platform that has seen much use and growth within the professional audio sector. Its purpose is to reliably...
THE PHENOMENON OF TUBE AMPLIFIER BURN IN
A passing comment about tube amplifier burn-in. I have noticed, that on multiple vacuum tube power amplifiers, the sound of the amp changes...
JBL Synthesis SDP-55 & SDR-35 Q&A Nick Clarke – Senior Director of Global Engineering
Recently, Secrets contributor Sumit Chawla had a chance to interview HARMAN’s Senior Director of Global Engineering Nick Clarke on the...
RIAA Vinyl Sales Q&A with McIntosh Group CEO Jeff Poggi
Recently, The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released its mid-year report for 2020 which, among other things, showed...
How Much Amplifier Power Does your Home Theater Need?
The question is often asked, how much amplifier power do I really need? Is my 80-watt per channel AVR going to drive my speakers to an...
Are Expensive outboard DACs a waste of money?
With most consumer electronics offering built-in DACs these days, is it worth the money to buy a supposedly “better” and more expensive outboard DAC?
Full-range Speaker Systems vs. Satellite-subwoofer Combinations
This audiophile debate still rages for stereo but is long settled for movies. Movie soundtracks, with their “point-one” effects channel, has mandated by...
Industry Insider Op-Ed Vol. 3: “Is Your System 24-Bit Ready?” and Q&A with Bill Dudleston
With the plethora of new high res streaming services such as Qobuz, Tidal, and Roon, I frequently have audiophiles approach me to discuss how much they...
Industry Insider Op-Ed Vol. 2: “The Power of Music” and Executive Q&A, HARMAN Luxury Audio
As I compose this article, I am beginning my sixth week of staying at home, having started a week before the official announcement here in California.
Industry Insider Op/Ed Vol: 1
Glory Days of Hi-Fi Are Today – Not The 1980s
I love Bruce Springsteen. The song, “Glory Days” from “Born in the USA” was released in 1984 when I was 14. It was a perfectly timed high-school-aged...
Are room treatments better than electronic room correction systems?
I would contend that this answer is “yes” for several reasons. A room correction system can correct for only one set of speaker locations and only one...
Do subwoofers contribute more to the sound than just improving the bass?
Well, surprise - this one might just be true - but if (and only if) you’re using bass management that actually splits the frequency range by sending low...
The Movie Studios Really Don’t Want You to Own Discs
It hasn’t been a quick decline, but month after month, year after year, movies on DVD and Blu-ray are in a serious state of decline.
Signal to Noise: Adventures in Audio Vol 1
I, like everyone else it seems, use social media. Beyond my regular family-related online sojourns, I follow the accounts of various audio publications...