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How to Set Up Speakers in a Real Room
Everything you've read about speaker placement assumes you have a dedicated listening room. A rectangular space with symmetrical walls, no windows on the speaker wall, a ceiling in the right...
How to Set Up Speakers in a Real Room
Everything you've read about speaker placement assumes you have a dedicated listening room. A rectangular space with symmetrical walls, no windows on the speaker wall, a ceiling in the right...
What Headphone Impedance Means (and When to Care)
Open up a review of any serious headphone and the word "impedance" shows up within the first few paragraphs, usually followed by a debate about whether those headphones "need" an...
What Headphone Impedance Means (and When to Care)
Open up a review of any serious headphone and the word "impedance" shows up within the first few paragraphs, usually followed by a debate about whether those headphones "need" an...
What a DAC Is (and When You Need a Better One)
A DAC — digital-to-analog converter — is the component in any digital audio system that turns the ones and zeros of a music file into the continuous electrical signal your...
What a DAC Is (and When You Need a Better One)
A DAC — digital-to-analog converter — is the component in any digital audio system that turns the ones and zeros of a music file into the continuous electrical signal your...
How to Store Records So They Last
Records are physical objects, and every physical object in your house is being slowly affected by the conditions around it — temperature, humidity, sunlight, pressure, the things it's touching. Records...
How to Store Records So They Last
Records are physical objects, and every physical object in your house is being slowly affected by the conditions around it — temperature, humidity, sunlight, pressure, the things it's touching. Records...
Open-Back vs. Closed-Back Headphones
There's a received wisdom in headphone culture that open-back headphones are the serious listener's choice and closed-back are a compromise. You'll see it on forums, in reviews, in YouTube videos....
Open-Back vs. Closed-Back Headphones
There's a received wisdom in headphone culture that open-back headphones are the serious listener's choice and closed-back are a compromise. You'll see it on forums, in reviews, in YouTube videos....
How to Clean Records (Without the Ritual)
Record cleaning is a topic the internet has made exhausting. Search any audiophile forum for cleaning advice and you'll find thousand-post threads debating enzyme cleaners versus alcohol solutions, the proper...
How to Clean Records (Without the Ritual)
Record cleaning is a topic the internet has made exhausting. Search any audiophile forum for cleaning advice and you'll find thousand-post threads debating enzyme cleaners versus alcohol solutions, the proper...