A look at ATRAD valve amplifiers here at Witchdoctor … http://witchdoctor.co.nz/index.php/2019/02/appreciating-artisan-analogue-amplifiers/ Advertisements

Compression works by exploiting certain psycho-acoustical characteristics of our auditory perception. “It all comes down to this: do you want more songs, or more accurate frequency content?” https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/what-data-compression-does-your-music

https://thespinoff.co.nz/music/17-02-2019/where-are-the-women-on-the-worlds-best-guitarist-lists/

Crutchfield now offer a remote listening test! Not in my listening room, they can’t. http://audiomatters.blogspot.com/2019/02/crutchfield-offer-remote-listening-test.html?m=1

This is the first I’ve heard of Ken Nordine and word jazz. I’ve never heard these aural vignettes spoken over a smooth jazz background. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Jazz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Nordine

There’s a lot of mistaken and confused talk about high resolution music recording, storage, and playback, according to Mark Waldrep. http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=6405 Part 2 here

I had an interesting music retail experience today at our local branch of The Warehouse (general discounters). The music department is quite extensive, including vinyl records. These are no longer kept in alphabetical order, and are on shelves, not in bins. The CDs are piled high on shelves, again in no order. I was one […]