Month: April 2023

Click:高仿包A company new to me, Infigo Audio Inc. of British Columbia, paired its eye-catching Method 3 class-A monoblocks ($50,000/pair), Method 4 DAC ($35,000), Fluvius Streamer ($1750), and Sparkle Series cabling with Alta Audio’s Adam loudspeaker (($17,000/pair in piano black, $18,000/pair in rosewood or beech; above). On a DSD track from the Global Percussion Network, timbresRead moreRead more

Brussels — The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday. Almost half of the 2022 attempts were made over land through the Western Balkans region, EU agency Frontex said, according to itsRead moreRead more

Sometime around 483 BCE, in Kushinagar, the capital of the Malla Republic in what today is the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, an aristocrat named Siddhārtha Gautama—known better to us as the Buddha, or the Awakened One—passed away. For 45 years, he had wandered the North Indian River Plain teaching a method of overcoming ignorance,Read moreRead more

London — The publisher of Prince Harry’s new memoir Spare says it’s selling at a record-setting pace. Readers bought more than 1.4 million copies of the Duke of Sussex’s book the day it was published last week, and it’s still making headlines. One thing Harry put down on paper that has continued to stoke debateRead moreRead more

Trío Arriaga: “Elegie” Tchaikovsky, Piano Trio; Shostakovich, Piano Trio 2 Eudora EUD-SACD-2201 (SACD). Gonzalo Noqué, prod. and eng. Performance ***** Sonics ***** The Tchaikovsky trio, cast in two large movements, frequently struggles to find an identity, or an aesthetic point. The Tr°o Arriaga’s recording is the first I’ve actually liked. In the first movement, theRead moreRead more

The Noida Police have arrested the brothers of a woman whose body was found in Hindon river earlier this month for allegedly murdering her. The body of 30-year-old Najma was recovered on March 13 from the Hindon river in what police suspected was a case of murder. BCCL Jump To Brothers kill sister, file missingRead moreRead more

Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukraine’s interior minister was among at least 13 people killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital of Kyiv, officials said Wednesday, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy describing it as a “terrible tragedy.” He said at least three children were among the dead, but the national emergency service later saidRead moreRead more

There was one and only one raison d’être for this room: showcasing the Innuos Statement Music Server/Ripper with Next Gen LPSU and 1TB internal SSD ($21,700). If it wasn’t an unqualified success—two other pieces of equipment, borrowed for the show, were not broken in and produced flat and uninvolving sound on Day 1—it mattered notRead moreRead more

As the United States prepares to announce a new shipment of military hardware for Ukraine and Kyiv pushes its Western partners for modern battle tanks and other heavy weapons, Moscow responded Thursday with a familiar battery of threats. Once again, Russia alluded to its nuclear arsenal in a bid to dissuade the U.S. and itsRead moreRead more

The story of Dashrath Manjhi is an inspiration to generations to come. Manjhi, a poor landless labourer, toiled for 22 years and completed a herculean task of shortening the travel between the Atri and Wazirganj of Gaya town from 55 km to 15 km—that too by cutting down the mountain with a chisel and hammer.Read moreRead more