Trends in turntable design shift back and forth over time, each “advance” turning out to be a mostly sideways move. Over its long history, VPI’s founder and designer, Harry Weisfeld, has moved the analog goalposts back and forth as he’s…

In 2012, the Monterey jazz festival put composer/guitarist Bill Frisell in a cabin at a remote ranch on the Big Sur coastline, and left him there to come up with his reactions to the landscape. The project – combining the…

The thread starts as follows: “So assuming an individual amp per speaker to make life easy physically. Everything else being equal. What’s likely to better from an sq perspective? Short interconnects from Pre-amp to power amp or short speaker cables…

Three songs recorded by Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury in 1983 are due to be released, according to Queen guitarist Brian May. May is working on the “unreleased material” with fellow bandmate Roger Taylor and producer William Orbit. He…