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HD Radio Explained
September 13th, 2010HD Radio is taking broadcasting into the digital era giving you crystal clear sound with low noise, interference and audio distortion. This data transmission technology is widely available, but little understood. Basically, it provides CD quality sound over FM stations. HD radio broadcasting is also improving your AM radio experience with FM quality sound. If [...]
Grado Reference Headphone Amplifier
June 25th, 2010OneCall is pleased to announce that the Grado RA1 Headphone Amplifier is now in stock! The truth is, the headphone output in most receivers is adequate at best. If you have invested in quality headphones, in all probability you are not hearing what your headphones are capable of. The RA1 will deliver the warmth, clarity [...]
The Peachtree Integrated Amplifiers for Digital Music
June 22nd, 2010“Without music, life is a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche But shouldn’t it sound good? When the choleric German philosopher listened to music, it was in parlors and concert halls and there is nothing as moving in music as a live performance. The digital revolution has given us access to a huge archive of music at the [...]
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 is up to [...]
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. Classical, rock, country, jazz [...]
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. Be assure [...]
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 light that [...]
