Author: BLOGDAELLI

The way to ensure the government can keep paying its bills is to raise or suspend the debt limit, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers Friday — not prioritize payments, as some Republicans have proposed. “In my assessment and those of economists across the board, a default on our debt would trigger an economic andRead moreRead more

A World War II soldier has been identified 80 years after he was killed in action in Eastern Europe.  The Defense POW/MIA Account Agency announced Wednesday that the previously unidentified man was confirmed to be U.S. Army Air Forces Tech Sgt. Frank C. Ferrel. Ferrel was from Roby, Texas and was 31 years old when heRead moreRead more

Orlene, off of Mexico’s Pacific coast, strengthened into a hurricane on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The slow-moving cyclone comes as the powerful storm Ian continues to unleash extreme weather conditions across southeastern U.S. states. Located around 235 miles south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Orlene was moving north Saturday morning at nearly 5 mph,Read moreRead more

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