The Audio Explorer

Bill Shafer sent along a nice video about the resurgence of the vinyl record. Like the ebb and flow contained in the grooves of our favori...

Rarely, if ever do I agree with Kid Rock. But he makes his point very succinctly in this youtube video. Stealing music is wrong. You heard ...

Los Angles may be close to loosing a land mark. In a city where almost nothing is old and a general sense of history is lacking, Capitol St...

For the last couple of years PS audio has been making some of the most exciting and innovative power conditioning products on the market. I...

Avant-garde musician David Byrne, formerly of the Talking Heads sets out to prove that music is all around us by turning an abandoned buildi...

There are certain audio companies for which I have a soft spot. For the most part, it's companies that have stood the test of time and ...

In an interview with New York’s WNYC , Producer T Bone Burnett expounds on his dislike for the CD. "It's stepped down from tape to...

Lately I’ve been completely addicted to wikipedia , whenever something piques my curiosity it’s my go to resource for quick answers. nearly...

Jim Thiel is one of the most innovative speaker designers of all time. He bases all of his designs on common sense and hard science, not mar...

It seems that there is no end in sight when it comes to the battle of which sounds better, the CD or the record. There are those who feel t...

The ability of music to instantly and powerfully remind us of a very specific time in our life is one of its most magical qualities. For me...

Originally written December 6, 2006, now with pictures! Recently I was afforded the opportunity to visit the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in...

Paul McCartney-”Unplugged (The Official Bootleg.)" Unfortunately it was never released in the US so you will have to buy it as an impor...

In his May 2008 review of Paradigm Reference Studio/20 Robert Reina states the following, “Even on “The Best of Both Worlds,” from Hannah Mo...

Tom Petty’s newest recording is a reunion of sorts with his former band Mudcrutch, which later evolved into the Heartbreakers that we all kn...

The most damaging change to recorded music currently being perpetrated by the record industry is dynamic range compression. Dynamic compres...

The high end hobby is undoubtedly one driven by passion bordering on obsession, as are all hobbies. Some choose to gleefully cross the line...

Anybody who hasn't been living under a rock is well aware that vinyl is going through a renaissance . The major stumbling block to joi...

There is an old saying in the entertainment industry, “The show must go on.” The clip below might be seen as the ultimate example of this p...

It's no secret that music servers are the future of audio. Most, however are extremely expensive when the parts list is taken into acco...

This afternoon I was watching Current TV which featured a profile of Muji. Think Japanese IKEA, minus the cute names. Muji's central id...

You tube is really a treasure trove of old video, most of which can not be released commercially because of copyright reasons. Below is a p...

All too often the high-end hobby spend lots of time and resources preaching to the choir. In some respects it’s understandable. High end m...

On the Cowboy Junkies newest album, "Trinity Revisited" they celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark 1988 album "The...

Below is a clip of Robert Plant paying tribute to Jimmy Page. Here I am completely ready to write Robert off as a completely selfish, pompo...

For those of you who haven't heard Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin fame) and Alison Krauss (a famous blue grass singer) have done an album...

On of the major problems of using Apple lossless files or WAVE files is their substantially larger size compared to MP3 or smaller AAC files...

Recently I've been thinking a lot about building my own music server. With my recent purchase of a Hitachi H31000U 1 TB hard drive for ...

The debate of digital vs. analog still rages on. I’m pretty much neutral. Either can be very, very good if done well, though they rarel...

Many audiophiles lovingly tweak their prized audio systems. To the layman many of these adjustments may seem a bit extreme. I'm pretty...