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Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Nine: Audible Illusions Modulus L3A Preamplifier

Robert Schryer — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:29:28 +0000

$42,790 worth of preamp sound for $4695? Part Un – Genesis: "Horn-type speakers almost ruined my hearing," said Audible Illusions' head honcho, Arthur Ferris, of his bygone love affair with JBLs and Altecs. "One night I was playing a record of Frederick Fennell's Band Marches," said Ferris. "On one of the cuts there was a... Read More »

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Klipsch Pilgrimage, 2017 - A Story About Speakers, People, and Hope

Robert Schryer — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 21:32:53 +0000

by Dave Mallette with assistance from Robert Schryer In 2014, a dozen of us from the Klipsch Community Internet forum held our first, the first, Forum-sponsored Klipsch Pilgrimage, at a motel in Hope, Arkansas, cradle of the Klipsch speaker company. It was an event intended to honor Klipsch and its founder, Paul Wilbur Klipsch (PWK),... Read More »

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Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Eight: Of Andrew Jones, Elac, and Spotted Dick

Robert Schryer — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:16:22 +0000

"The speaker that changed my life?" said Jones. "Easy. The Quad ESL57. It's the first true Hi-Fi speaker I heard once I got to university. I have almost always owned a pair." No surprise, then, that the ESL57's creator, Peter Walker, continues to inspire Jones's own work. "I had many conversations with Peter," said Jones.... Read More »

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Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Seven: The Unison Research Unico DM Amplifier

Robert Schryer — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 03:00:20 +0000

The Unison Research Unico DM amplifier (image courtesy of Unison Research) "There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." - Federico Fellini You've got to hand it to the Italians: the paintings, the operas, the suits, the fast cars, the food, the wine. Theirs is a cultural aesthetic... Read More »

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Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Six, John DeVore

Robert Schryer — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:24:26 +0000

This interview originally ran in 2916, but deserves another read. Note: Robert Schryer left PF to write for Stereophile. DeVore Fidelity: Why Getting the Best Sound is all About Balance, or: "C'mon, John. Just once for the camera—Cheeeeese!" "I began obsessing about hi-fi more than 40 years ago. I also love station-wagons with manual... Read More »

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Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Five

Robert Schryer — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:26:26 +0000

(Not) Another $18,000 Challenge, or: "Whoa! This system costs how much?!" "I like Downbeat, you know?" This was the first sentence Graeme Humfrey said to me, after I'd introduced myself as a PF writer. Graeme is the proprietor of the latest audio shop to be handed my unsolicited musical challenge. "I mean, it's still great what you're doing," he... Read More »

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Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Four

Robert Schryer — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:53:48 +0000

Zu Audio: divine, evil, beautiful, disgusting; Or, "Careful with that tone, mister." So what kind of sound are you after? Accurate? Musical? Okay. But according to whom? Because, the fact is, each of us has a brain that's unique, including in what it perceives as being accurate and musical. Does this make us all somehow... Read More »

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Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Three

Robert Schryer — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:10:39 +0000

The $18,000 Challenge, or: "Where the heck was I just now?" The gods of inspiration picked the moment I was fishing out leaves from my pool to wallop me in the head with an idea so unassailably right and fair and potentially fun it felt like I'd been granted a power to make the average... Read More »

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Journeys In Audio Subjectivism, Part Two

Robert Schryer — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 07:55:37 +0000

Hitting the Ocean, or: "What Are You Babbling about Now?" Those words contained about as much sympathy as you'd be likely to imagine they would. "What are you babbling about now?" That was my wife of 19 years, her face contorted in that 'you-know-I-don't-care' expression that drops like a curtain at the first sign of... Read More »

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Journeys In Audio Subjectivism, Part One

Robert Schryer — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 04:35:36 +0000

My Hot Tub Epiphany, or: "Where the heck did my ice cubes go?" A funny thing happened to me a couple of weeks into writing this article. While relaxing one cool evening in my hot tub thinking-spot, I had an epiphany. About audio. Specifically, about how we internalize the sound of recorded music. And I... Read More »

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Can We Trust Our Hearing?

Robert Schryer — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 06:33:30 +0000

We can't hear the absolute absolutely. Our ears are organic matter evolved over generations of overlapping genes. No two are exactly alike, including our own, just as no two ears located at the slightly lopsided extremities of a bumpy skull are diametrically synchronized. Add to that that both can't be equally sensitive to sound or deteriorate at... Read More »

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