A good loudspeaker can make or break an audio system, either two-channel or home theater. The quality of source components such as streamers, turntable/cartridge combination, and disc player matters a lot! So does the quality of your electronics - receiver, amp, preamp, etc. Any home theat...
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Wireless loudspeakers are a category that, not long ago, was scoffed at by most serious music listeners. Wireless signals themselves were limited in bandwidth and dynamic range. In plain words, the streaming signals did not sound very good. So not only on modestly priced stereo gear, but e...
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What happens when vintage, or retro-classic styling, meets modern loudspeaker development techniques and cutting-edge sound? McIntosh has resoundingly answered that question with a product that pays homage to their very first speaker, introduced back in 1970, the ML1 (as in McIntosh Loudsp...
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Hmmm… I’d like to put audiophile-quality sound into my home, but I don’t want to break the bank, either. What to do? Come to Gramophone to audition Totem Acoustic’s Bison Twin Tower, that’s what! One of the best things about Gramophone is that we have so many...
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Many areas of consumer electronics hardware, and music and video enjoyment, have leaped forward tremendously in the past few decades. The picture quality of a good TV in 2023 is stunningly better than it was just a few years ago. Wireless streaming used to be synonymous with poor sound quality....
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What a miracle it is that vinyl records and turntables have made a massive resurgence over the past two decades. How often in your lifetime have you seen an obsolete technology fade in popularity… and then rebound, becoming popular again? Vinyl album and turntable&nbs...
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Dramatically Improving Your Display’s Picture Quality At CEDIA 2023, a well-attended trade show for custom integrators and electronics retailers, a video processing product made by madVR Labs called the Envy MK 2 took home the Best New Hardware, Global award. At Gramophone, we’ve had ...
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Knowing Rotel’s reputation as a builder of audiophile sound quality products for reasonable money, we at Gramophone were happy to hear about Rotel’s latest product. It is the RAS-5000 Amplified Streamer, a powerful amplifier/preamplifier combo with a high-performance streaming engine and...
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Do you want reference quality sound, but don’t have much space on your desktop? If you have had enough of the not-quite sound of computer speakers, or you are a musician or vlogger wanting good sound from speakers that occupy almost no space, Kanto ORA may be just what you are looking for. ...
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What do we want from our music system? That question seems pretty fundamental, right? The answer is something like this: we seek to reproduce our favorite music as accurately as possible, within our budget. A music system that costs $999 retail won’t be able to reproduce the thundering drum so...
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