Articles
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One Fine Evening...
|On a wet and windy Friday in late November, the day after Thanksgiving, Edinburgh's premier audio and video supplier, Loud & Clear, along with digitalmeister general dCS, made recorded music wonderful again. Playing to an ...read more -
Classic Album Living Room - The Best of British!
|DISCLAMER: As I was effectively compare of this event for the full three days, my objectivity must be considered compromised. However, this does give a unique perspective on the event that might not be so ...read more -
Remembering Syd Barrett – The Audiophile Way
|A trendy art gallery in the middle of London’s even trendier Shoreditch is not the first place you’d think of to find 100 people sitting round listening to a 41 year old album of frail, ...read more -
HiFi-Plus 67: Top 10 21st Century Test Discs (part II)
|Last time, we served up 10 discs that have been made in the in the last nine years, but still offered the ultimate in sound quality. Then we asked you to do the same. This ...read more -
Kraftwerk/The Catalogue
|Every Home Should Have One By: Richard Clews Kraftwerk’s The Catalogue seems rather perverse at first glance. The band best known for giving voice to computers and robots, and using electronic beats to recreate the ...read more -
Future of The Blues
|Author: Drew Hobbs To the uninitiated, the blues is all about hard times, losers, hobos and winos, with the typecast image being of an unkempt, down-on-his-luck, middle-aged black guy with a beat up old acoustic, ...read more -
HDtracks Welcomes Verve Music Group In 96/24 Sound
|(Editorial Note: Late last week, AVguide received word that the HDtracks, the well-regarded high-res music download service, is now offering Verve Music Group offering in 96kHz/24-bit format. Below is the text of the HDtracks announcement, ...read more -
RMAF Seminar videos
|Rocky Mountain Audio Fest has posted videos from most of the 2009 seminars. Go here Sorry about my purple shirt...read more -
HDtracks Expands Catalog with New Hi-Res Indie Rock Offerings
|HDtracks, an audiophile-oriented music download service that specializes in sales of high resolution (that is, CD-quality or better) music files, announced earlier this week that it is expanding its catalog of indie rock offerings through ...read more -
CES 2010 - Hard Rock Cafe Pictures
|Tuesday evening I went to the Nobu restaurant in the Hard Rock Hotel. I arrived early so I spent about ½ hour making some photographs in Hard Rock’s lobby. They were all made with the ...read more -
AVguide.com Visits Ne Plus Ultra for Preview of Dean Peer’s "Airborne"
|It isn’t often that I get an opportunity to meet to one of my musical heroes, but that’s exactly what happened last week when I received an email from the world-class bass guitarist Dean Peer, ...read more -
Two smart ideas from Manchester (Hi-Fi+)
|Last weekend, there was an audio show in Manchester, England. Although very successful in its own right, a lot of the equipment on demonstration there had been seen before, was very home theater oriented or ...read more -
How I spend My Summer Vacation
|How I spend My Summer Vacation Some people go on cruises, some putter around the house, but my “official” summer vacation starts this afternoon when I register for the RockyGrass Academy. This will be my ...read more -
Starting Today, Ray Charles’s Post-1960 Catalog Becomes Available in Digital Format
|According to a Concord Music Group press release, Ray Charles’ post-1960 catalog will, as of April 7, 2009, and for the first time ever, become available in digital format. Starting on April 7, Apple’s iTunes ...read more -
Vienna Teng, Dreaming Through the Noise
|Dreaming Through the Noise If you like singer-songwriters, but are looking for a different sound, try this. I'd compare Vienna Teng's latest to something, but saying she's like Cowboy Junkies meets Lucinda Williams isn't really ...read more