Music and Audio Minimalism
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Five or six years ago I wrote a breezy, introductory-type piece on mid-fi “knob-surfing,” winding up with a reprise on the old line that the number of the knobs, lights,… More
Five or six years ago I wrote a breezy, introductory-type piece on mid-fi “knob-surfing,” winding up with a reprise on the old line that the number of the knobs, lights,… More
A few years ago I got a commission to design a Media Room with a difference. The client wanted the room’s purpose—an all-out assault on the state-of-the-art in A/V hardware and… More
The word can be traced to the Greek goddess of the sea, Alcyone. In time “halcyon” became synonymous with the kingfisher, fabled to have the power to calm the winds and… More
On a wintry day in 1870, QueenVictoria paid a visit to a colossal auditorium then nearing completion in the South Kensington area of London. Nearly ten times the size of the… More
Subjecting 20 putatively “high-end” in-wall speakers to the same performance standards used to judge conventional in-room speakers proved to be something of a novel idea back in the February and March ’96 issues. The… More