Enter the Wayback... Does anyone remember the old adventures with depth, image, spacial placement and all that non-industry standard “surround” stuff? A lot of the standards hadn’t been imagined yet. There was the Apt Holman preamp, which had controls to shape the soundstage with its “Mode...

Amazon HD is now the same price as Amazon Music Unlimited, so $7.99 a month or $79 a year streams HD.

So, let's let the politics move to other sites. <sigh> Life is fun, right? Let's have some fun! Sharing a true story here about audio discovery, musical awakening, learning, growing, and living well. It was 1979 and I worked in a "hi end' hi-fi store in San Antonio, Texas. A trade-in put a...

So, Jim Adler – the Texas Hammer. Spent a couple of hours in a San Antonio airport wine bar sitting next to the guys who wrote Adler's copy. They were beyond funny – clever, witty, sarcastic, and **masters** of imitating Adler's performance. Never – NEVER – have two glasses of massively...

Lived in San Antonio back in 1985 when the city received 13.5 inches of some mysterious white goop. Roads closed, power out, carports collapsed – it was cowboy chaos. You'll be fine. It will pass quickly and soon Corpus will be warm and humid again. Now you, like all Texans, can talk about this...

More Floyd here. I'm a Gilmour fan. The guitar solos he created over the years are still the most unique and memorable of ALL the guitar solos we have been given. A suggested work – especially for us old guys who like to think we still have it – is the David Gilmour in Concert DVD. It is a...

Friends, I need a little help. (Well, a LOT, but in this context...) So, Bifrost 2 balanced XLR into Jotunheim 2. Now I have Sennheiser HD660s coming in and I want to connect balanced. Since Senn supplies a balanced cable with 4.4mm plug, what is the configuration of adapter I need to go from...

I was selling hi-fi in those days. We (tried to) use the Telarc 1812 recording for demo purposes. Well, sure. It did make a loud THUD on most systems. But seriously, look at the physical requirement to produce that historic pressing!

We live in a world filled with noisy and colorful product enticements, often loudly overhyping ordinary and unimaginative goods. We have the privilege of choosing which products to desire and which ones to actually own. I wrote this list of "Why Schiit" a couple of years ago responding to...

Laphroaig is indeed a malt with "strong character." For a laugh go to their Youtube sites and watch the "Two Friends..." videos. A good laugh!

I ordered my A3 with the 4490 DAC card. Fooling around led me to try it with a Modi Multibit, and there was just more "interest" in the music with the MM. One thing led to another (as it always seems to happen in audio) and now there is a Bifrost 2 sitting beneath the A3. Moral of the story...

The aftermarket cable guys are already at work. "Improved mid bass clarity and focus. Less skin irritation..."

From Futurist: Elon Musk’s brain-hacking startup Neuralink is gearing up for a long-awaited reveal on August 28. And Musk himself can’t seem to help himself from teasing the brain-computer interface. On Sunday afternoon, when computer scientist Austin Howard asked Musk on Twitter if we could one...

DAC out to Asgard in? It can be those little things when we're excited!

Those were the days!

M. Scott Peck was an American author best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, who also wrote a book named In Search of Stones. In Stones Peck spent some time presenting a psychological concept, overdetermination​, the notion that everything important has multiple causes. Perhaps he...

Hello. I am a graduate of two-channel circa 1975-1985, just returning to the pleasures of listening to recorded music with this cool, fun, high performance, and affordable media you have aptly described as "head-fi." Having a blast with new Schiit Modi 2 and Magni 2 and Beyerdynamic headphones...