Product Review

2009-12-15

Another perennial over-achiever in fine audio/video is Furutech. This year I was able to sample several of their new designs, and came away impressed once again with the quality of engineering and the performance of the Furutech line.

2009-09-15

Still spinning those black discs from years gone by? Not black CDRs but real 'vinyl' black discs… you know records? What you say… yeah sure (heck even my 21 year old son prefers vinyl over digital which is why he is now buying records when he can—he owns a turntable!). But have you tried any record clamps lately? Say what? Well clamping a record to the platter can yield great benefits, and how it is done will defiantly has it influences.

2009-09-15

Micro Bio & Professional Disclosure: Guido D. Corona recently retired from IBM Corp. with over 26 years of service. He is currently a web accessibility and US Federal Section 508 consultant. He has contributed equipment reviews to The Absolute Sound, and articles on Access World Online ( http://www.afb.org/aw/main.asp ). Guido Corona is also a professional contributing copywriter to the upcoming Jeff Rowland Design online knowledge base. While his connection with the Rowland database project is minor, Mr. Corona will recuse himself from reviews of Rowland gear. Ye Olde Editor]

2009-08-15

Furutech has come on strong the past few years with multiple innovations most of which were relatively low cost high value offerings, but always high tech. Their previous phono cable was under $500 and did a very good job with high-end cartridges. Now Furutech has taken off the gloves and committed their huge resources to a cutting edge cable offering with all the technological expertise at their command. The Silver Arrow Phono Cable, yes its expensive and yes it delivers the musical goods and more.

2009-08-15

If you're a regular reader of this site, you're presumably among the converted: a true-blue audiophile who has no question that there are profound qualitative differences to be heard between different amplifiers, preamplifiers, and CD players—not to mention cables, cords, power conditioners, equipment racks, and even footers. On the other side of the audio divide are the debunkers: those who think those differences are usually at best negligible, and who view audiophiles as pitiable obsessive-compulsives who delude themselves into hearing distinctions that aren't really there.

2009-01-15

I freely confess to being a long-time video junkie. Since VHS first arrived, I've invested in a long sequence of home theater format and gear: VHS, Laserdisc (still got most all of my LDs, too), DVD, DVHS, HD broadcast (Portland was one of the initial test sites for HD over the air), HD over cable (Comcast), and now Blu Ray. (I guessed right on that last one, and went with Blu Ray instead of HD- DVD, which I considered to be an inferior format.) I shifted to HDMI for video only when I purchased my Panasonic BD-10 Blu Ray player; it was video only since my Linn Kisto didn't support HDMI.
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