It's the season for red, white, and Blue. Joni Mitchell’s Blue can be found on many music and audio critics’ Greatest Recordings lists for its musical brilliance and recording quality. Lifelong audiophile and music historian Ken Swauer tells the intensely personal...
Read MoreBy Geoffrey Morrison If you’ve recently bought, or are thinking of buying, a new TV, you’ve probably heard about refresh rate and may have wondered what it meant. This number, usually in some multiple of 60 (120, 240, 600, etc.), is an indication of how often the television changes th...
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By Al Griffin Like it or not, 3D is here to stay. Movies produced in 3D remain big box-office earners, and most 3D titles eventually see distribution on Blu-ray Disc. TV manufacturers have also started to incorporate 3D as a standard, rather than step-up, feature in new HDTVs and Blu-ray players,...
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By Geoffrey Morrison When it comes to truly huge-screen entertainment in your home, there are two choices: TV or Projector. Of course, everyone knows about the TVs. Flat-panels come in sizes all the way up to 90-inches these days, and they’re often not terribly expensive. But projectors ...
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By Ken Swauger In late October of 1962 it really looked like the world was going to change, and not for the better. The cold war was definitely getting hotter and the Soviet Union and the United States were dangerously close to button pushing time. In the middle of all this superpower huffin...
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By Daniel Kumin I was trained as a “serious” musician. Yet across all those years of contemporary-classical composition and theory, and then, later, writing about AV and technology, I’ve always led a double life, playing guitar in one or another blues, blues-rock, folk-rock, or ...
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Take a look at Electronic House Magazine's interview with Gramophone's very own, in-house interior designer, Bethany Johnson. More than any space in a home, a theater is the perfect example of how the marriage of design and the integration of electronic gear is key. Some of the fi...
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By Ken Swauger Developing an interest in jazz can be very rewarding but knowing what artists to seek out can be somewhat bewildering. One way to avoid this problem is to begin with a single acknowledged masterwork and then use it as a stepping-stone to widen your Jazz horizons and collection. ...
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By John Sciacca In the beginning, there was one-channel and it was mono. And verily, it was good. Then the light grew brighter, and man said unto himself, “If one is good, then certainly two is better!” And left and right were created, and thus we had stereo. There was channel sepa...
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By Wes Phillips It's a great time to be buying loudspeakers. Your choices used to be: large or small; but nowadays measurement technology, digital equalization, and talented audio engineers have expanded our choices tremendously. But matching your speakers to your lifestyle and listening habi...
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