Month: September 2024

Le film de Sam Esmail, "Le Monde après nous", fait débat auprès des abonnés de Netflix. Que pensent réellement les spectateurs du thriller avec Julia Roberts ? Verdict. Après Mr. Robot et Homecoming – série déjà portée par Julia Roberts -, Sam Esmail réalise Le Monde après nous, son deuxième long métrage, adapté du romanRead moreRead more

Forty years ago, as I was starting out on my audio journey, I railed against the flashy mainstream audio gear of the day. To me less was more, and I tried to convince my friends that my small, austere British-made audio rig, including what my friends jokingly called my Lynn Swanndek turntable (after the SteelersRead moreRead more

I was hosting a seminar on the Friday afternoon of the show—”50 Years of Being an Audiophile,” where I examined how my system and tastes in music and sound quality has evolved since I bought my first audio components five decades ago—and was starting my drive home to Brooklyn Sunday morning, which left me SaturdayRead moreRead more

Which loudspeakers do audio professionals listen to? And why should we care? After all, it’s not as if recording engineers are the kind of refined, sensitive, music-loving types who read Stereophile. As much as they may love music, many audio pros appear only to view the original sounds of musical instruments as raw materials toRead moreRead more

For a decade, the sound of the Vivid Giya loudspeakers, which I had heard only at CES in private demonstration suites, beguiled me. My positive impressions were completely consistent from one show to the next—but then, so were the host and the surroundings. I had to wonder how much those factors contributed to my impressions.Read moreRead more

In my early years of writing about audio (footnote 1), I was known—to the extent that I was known at all—as something of an objectivist. I was, after all, working as an editor at a leading science journal at the time, just a few years out from a brief career as an actual scientist, stillRead moreRead more

Phono preamplifiers could be compared to children as viewed by a previous generation of adults: They are expected to be small in stature, and they should stay out of the way, seen but not heard and maybe not even seen. With the simpler models typically encountered at lower price points, there’s little to do exceptRead moreRead more

Prelude The setting of the Prelude to our opera, The Margules Saga, is the California Audio Show, in August 2012. There, on first hearing Margules Audio’s tube electronics, I wrote in my notebook, “great inner vitality, warm but with a welcome and appropriate bite.” An encounter the following January inspired me to write, of aRead moreRead more

During my 30-odd years inhabiting New York City’s Greenwich Village, I’ve seen many things come and go. Today’s Village buzzes, blasts, and bellows in every direction, change itself the only constant. Once the province of printers, factories, piers, and the maritime trade, the Far West Village, from Varick to Greenwich, plays host to a loomingRead moreRead more

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her fifth straight budget today. This was also the last the full budget of Modi 2.0 govt before the next parliamentary elections in 2024. India will lose Rs. 35,000 crore of net tax revenue after the Union Budget tweaked direct and indirect taxes to provide relief to the middle-income group,Read moreRead more