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Toshiba Regza SV670 Cinema Series LCD Televisions
September 1st, 2009Toshiba Regza SV670 Cinema Series LED backlit LCD Televisions deliver exceptional performance and value.
Hi Fidelity, Martin Logan and Musical Fidelity
August 19th, 2009The goal of Hi Fidelity is to recreate the visceral experience of a live performance. This is not easy. A good recording will capture the nuances of a Stradivarius Violin or a Vintage Martin D-18, the melodic structure in the feedback of Sonic Youth, the harmonic complexity of a Bach fugue. It [...]
The Importance of Source in Audio
June 27th, 2009We listen to music in our house. When everyone is home the stereo turns on in the morning and turns off when the last person goes to bed. A certain democratic hierarchy prevails that determines what is being played. There are five of us and each individual has his/her distinct preferences. [...]
The Biggest and Baddest Don’t Always Win
March 16th, 2009Photographers are gear freaks. They have an inexhaustible curiousity and appetite for the newest technology, the unreleased camera, the fastest lens and the biggest chip. They can spend hours feeding upon specifications, pondering incomprehensible histograms and exposure logarithms, and arguing with whomever will listen about just when a red is in fact orange. [...]
Turntables for Audiophiles
June 16th, 2008We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
Ok, maybe TS Elliot wasn’t writing about Vinyl records. Nonetheless, many audiophiles who began listening to music on LPs and moved on to the CD format, are now returning to vinyl records. There have been [...]
Fill-in flash and reflectors
May 13th, 2008Every outdoor shoot is a blind date with the sun brokered by the weatherman. The photographer is ever-hopeful the sun will arrive in a glorious raiment of blue sky and slow moving cumulus clouds, but the sun may or may not show up. Or, the sun may arrive sullen and glowering, with a [...]
