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Denver's Vintage Voltage Show - Anachrophile Heaven
|The Denver Vintage Voltage Show-Anachrophile Heaven Denver’s Vintage Voltage show had something for nearly anyone who ever lusted after a piece of stereo gear or musical ephemera. In its third year, with over 80 tables ...read more -
Meet your Maker - Boulder
|Boulder Amplifiers is located in a small semi-industrial area south east of downtown Boulder, Colorado. With 20 full-time employees, all Boulder products are designed, and manufactured almost entirely within its factory. Only Anodizing is done ...read more -
Sonos Multi-Room Music System
|Sonos has been making multi-room music servers since 2004. In the four short years since the introduction of its first player this 180-person company has become the market leader in moderately priced wireless multi-room music ...read more -
The Antique Collector Installment 3: More Scott Classics
|The Antique Collector Installment 3: More Scott Classics By Steven Stone Hiya fans. I hope that by now, our third installment, we may have picked up a few devotees. This installment, we were going to ...read more -
MacSpeech 1.3 - Look Ma, No Hands for the MacIntosh, Speech Recognition Comes of Age
|List price $199, street price $160 Website: WWW.MacSpeech.com Any Trekkie worth their salt has probably fantasized about a speech program for their computer. Up until recently that’s all it could be was a fantasy. Sure, ...read more -
Antique Collector Installment 2: Scott Tuners
|Antique Collector Installment 2 By Steven Stone Scott Tuners Scotts' first FM tuner, the 310A was introduced in December 1954. It was boxy, 4 1/2 " by 13" by 10 1/4" housed in a metal ...read more -
How To Blow Up Two Computers In Two Days
|It all started when my 14-year-old niece visited me in my home theater to tell me, “My computer isn’t working.” I’ve heard this more than once and usually it means the DSL line has gone ...read more -
CES Portraits (2nd Batch)
|(Here is the second batch of photos from CES, all shot with Panasonic G-1 with kit zoom lens and Sunpack bounce flash with Bantam power pack.) Lead image: Ron Sutherland --- Sutherland Audio Bob Graham ...read more -
The Antique Collector: Focus on H. H. Scott
|The Antique Collector: Focus on H. H. Scott Break out the Champagne, find a ribbon to tie around its' neck, and smash it against the side of something gigantic; The Absolute Sound is launching a ...read more -
CES Portraits (Batch #1)
|Paul Barton---PSB David Soloman---Signal Path David Gordon---Audio Research Paul McGowan---PS Audio Roy Hall --- Music Hall Bobby Palkovich --- Merlin Speakers Ted Denny --- Synergistic Research Richard Schram --- Parasoundread more -
Network and Music Server Products: CES 2009
|Network and Music Server Products (Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from SS's CES Report. The full report will appear in the upcoming issue of "The Absolute Sound.") Blue Smoke’s Black Box offers a different ...read more -
Does "T.H.E. Show" have any legitimate reason to exist?
|When "T.H.E. Show" first began participants often cited the larger more speaker-friendly rooms of "The Show's" venue when compared with CES's offerings at the Alexis Park hotel as their primary reason for participation at "The ...read more -
The $450 Chair
|CES has VERY strict rules regarding moving furniture in rooms. If anything is moved in a room more than a couple of inches the manufacturer is fined. In the MSB room there was an extra ...read more -
Art and AcousticsArt and Acoustics
|At best most acoustic treatments are boring. At worst they’re downright ugly. Art and Acoustics is one man’s attempt to remedy this situation. Sharing a room with ModWright Instruments Inc. at the Venetian Tower 30-227 ...read more -
The Audioquest Boombox Demo
|An audiophile needs to do several things before he or she dies to be considered a true audiophile. First they have to have owned, lived with, or at least co-habitated with a pair of original ...read more