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Oliver Masciarotte – To Serve and Groove
Oliver Masciarotte; To Serve and Groove Vol 5
Stuart Yaniger
Stuart Yaniger reviewed Oliver Masciarotte's latest writing. The book,...
Listening to paradoxes
Most of us agree that the aim of good hi-fi is to re-create the sounds heard in the control room of the studio when the final mix of a piece of music is laid down...
The Small Speaker challenge
When the small "bookshelf" loudspeakers became popular some 30 - 40 years ago, they established a new market niche. Stereo setups could now much more easily...
High Frequency Reverberation for finer sound reproduction
The development of artificial reverberation in the audio industry has been aimed at duplicating the sound of real rooms, more and more accurately. No one ever...
A low-noise preamplifier with variable-frequency tone controls
In 1996, Douglas Self published a design for what became known as the Precision Preamplifier, which included a treble/bass tone control with variable turnover...
The parts bin headphones amplifier
In his search for a good sounding headphones amplifier, Rob Scheepens has experimented with, and listened to, several different amplifier topologies. These were all...
The G Word, or How to Get Your Audio off the Ground
Bruno Putzeys maintains that one of the causes for many, many ground problems in audio is the (subconscious) way of thinking of voltages as being a property of a...
An Archival Phono Preamplifier
An Archival Phono Preamplifier is a phono preamplifier designed for playback of vintage recordings long-playing, 45- and 78-rpm records made before the RIAA...
On the audibility of “high resolution” digital audio formats and how to test this
The introduction of the "high resolution" digital formats for the recording of sound has initiated wide-ranging discussions on the audibility of the...
On stray capacitances in audio transformers
In a previous article (Linear Audio Volume 0), Pierre investigated audio transformers as magnetic devices to determine and optimize leakage inductances. In the...