For most of the summer and the month of September, I have been observing and interviewing sound guys (“engineers”) and bands regarding the comparison of analog and digital sound boards. In this blog I ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

We have always been such suckers for the shiny new object, especially now, with digital technologies coming fast and furious at consumers’ kryptonite — the compulsive desire to own the latest and ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

We’ve been looking for a USB tube pre-amplifier to sweeten the sound of digital music files as they travel between a computer and a sound system. That quest continues, but it has revealed something ...

Everybody is streaming over smartphones, smart computers and smart speakers. But a “smart” anything may be doing its best to outsmart your ears. You need a DAC. That is to say, you probably need ...

For someone like me—an avid record collector with profound hearing loss—the past decade has produced severe cognitive dissonance caused by two contrary developments. First, vinyl came back; then, good ...

M. Ward is bringing his warm, analog sound to Hawaiʻi for an intimate solo night at Blue Note Hawaii on Thursday, January 8, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Charleston Sound Studios have added “new” piece of equipment to their battery of recording tools: ...