How to take care of your vinyls With vinyl sales at their highest since 1996, suppliers are struggling to keep up with the demand. While there are varying theories on why this surge is happening, one thing is certain: vinyl is back. Audiophiles have long hailed vinyl as superior to digital pl...
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On the market for a new pair of headphones? If you’ve been looking around, you’ve probably noticed certain headphones being labeled as open-back and others as closed-back. When investing in high quality headphones, it’s important to know what you’re getting so t...
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By Lauren Dragan Headphones provide listeners the rare opportunity to shut out the world and immerse themselves in music. But when the world is a little noisier than usual, that can be tough to accomplish. That’s where noise-cancelling headphones come in. But what’s the difference? Ho...
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By Ken Swauger One of the most satisfying things about owning a high quality sound system is that it allows you to explore different musical genres. Maybe you grew up listening to one type of music, but now you are curious about others, Jazz for example. But what’s good to listen to? N...
Read Moreby Daniel Kumin The decibel, “dB” for short, is all over audio like flies on a forgotten Twinkie. Sure, you can ignore it, or sort-of understand it, but if your really want to know who’s who and what’s what in audio, it really ain’t that hard. Work, in the physics...
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It’s been a relatively slow Friday morning here at Gramophone, so I took the opportunity to wander around the show room. While I busied myself initially harassing a few of our Design & Build team and accidentally incorrectly cutting a piece of vinyl flooring, I remembered that we recent...
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By Geoffrey Morrison With storage space on computers and phones at levels that would have seemed absurd just a few years ago, there are fewer and fewer reasons to settle for compressed music. Whether you still buy CDs and import them, or if your CD collection has been collecting dust since you co...
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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...
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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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