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What's a Movie Lover to Do?

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August 2020

How to Find and Stream Your Favorite Classic Films

For anyone in love with the art of film, we live in a glorious age of immediate gratification. Within seconds of your being overcome with a sudden yearning to see it again, or for the first time, you can find and watch almost any title in the history of film.

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The PMC result6 Loudspeakers

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October 2018

Wouldn’t you love to find a $205,000 pair of speakers that actually performed as expected? Not just some company that claims their drivers were pressed on the thighs of tow-headed Swedish virgins and connected with 25K gold wires terminated with eight-way binding posts of 99.999%-pure platinum. You know the advertising hype you see in the more obscure audio hangouts. But how about something real?

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IsoAcoustics' New ISO-200 Loudspeaker Isolation Stands

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August 2018

Do you get tired of reading reviews with namby-pamby recommendations that sound as if the writers have worked full time to ensure that they can find a way out of their statements at a later date? It happens all the time in the world of wine criticism (my other job). For example: “This wine has a pleasing aroma of stewed plums and candied lychees with a hint of leather and Tellicherry black peppers. Rating 88.” What does that mean?

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I Love Music. You Love Music. Can We Agree on a Few Other Things?

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March 2018

As other stores pull them from shelves, Waterloo Records promises to “not abandon” CDs.
-- Austin American-Statesman, February 8, 2018

This headline of a story by reporter Jake Harris caught my eye. In this age of mass murder, corruption, scandal, and sexual innuendo and assault, here is a major American newspaper devoting time and space to our little buddy the Compact Disc. For the past 147 years, the Statesman has been the primary newspaper of Austin, Texas, reputedly the “live music capital of the world,” so the statement carries some authority. Waterloo Records, an iconic record store on Lamar Boulevard, has a history of thumbing its nose at music-industry insiders in support of its local customers, and for the last 35 years Waterloo has been the heart of the local music business. In fact, the store has won the vaunted Best of Austin award from The Austin Chronicle every year since the store’s founding, in 1982.

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Stuff You Really Want for Christmas 2017!

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December 2017

Here we are, closing in on the end of another year. It’s been a doozy, with political storms equivalent to the 1960s, seemingly endless gun violence, and nightly reports of sexual abuse by entertainment bigwigs and national politicos. On the positive side, we’ve had a breadth and quality of music that spanks the intellect and caresses the spirit. We’ve even had some wonderful films, though you’d have to be Sherlock Holmes to find them.

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Eclipse (Not Last Month's Solar Variety): The TD-M1 Wireless Loudspeakers

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September 2017

Life changes. People move up, they slip down. They get kicked out, they get invited in. One day they rent, the next day they own. If they’re lucky, someday they’ll own the house of their dreams, and be attached to the humans and pets of their dreams. If they’re really lucky, they’ll have a place where they can listen to music.

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Were Thomas Barefoot's Speakers Used to Record the Music You're Listening To?

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July 2017

A couple of years ago, I was working on a story about Roon and its use as a database tool for recording studios. As I talked with one engineer, he mentioned that studio monitor speakers -- especially those made by Barefoot Sound -- had achieved such a high level of quality that musicians and engineers could now hear the functional equivalent of a straight wire with gain from recording studio to control room. Pro-audio magazines and websites were passing along a lot of similar buzz about Barefoot monitors, especially from musicians, many of whom requested -- even demanded -- having Barefoot monitors in the control rooms of the studios they worked in. Over the last decade, Barefoot’s monitors grew in reputation until one model, the MicroMain27 Gen2 ($10,495/pair), became the recording industry’s de facto standard.

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Oppo Digital's UDP-203 4K Ultra -- They're On Top Again

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April 2017

Everyone who pays regular attention to the world of audio and video equipment knows the name Oppo Digital, Inc. Here at SoundStage!, we’ve been fans since 2006, when Roger Kanno and I reviewed their first two DVD players, the DV-970HD ($149 USD) and the OPDV971H ($199). Both players became instant Reviewers’ Choice winners. Since then, Oppo has released a string of impressive silver-disc players that have resided at or near the top of critics’ lists of recommendations.

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The Prism Sound Callia and Why Consumer Audiophiles Should Buy Professional Gear

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February 2017

For the past 20 years, I’ve been preaching that buyers of audio gear in the mid- to upper price levels should spend some of their shopping time appraising the professional marketplace. In the beginning, I had to recommend jury-rigged systems with huge audio interfaces that had multiple microphone preamps, various digital inputs and outputs, and inputs/outputs that most audiophiles have never used. (Got any balanced TRS 1/4” cables in your storage box?)

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ATC SCM19 V2 Loudspeakers

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October 2016

Does the name Billy Woodman ring a bell? Although he may not have been involved in any of the audio components you use at home, it’s very likely that Woodman designed some of the gear used in recording the music you listen to. All over the world, many of the finest musicians and audio engineers make their most crucial judgments of their work by listening to it through monitors made by ATC, the company Woodman founded in 1974. Beck, Kate Bush, Coldplay, Mark Knopfler, Diana Krall, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Supertramp, Jack White -- all have depended on ATC monitors to get an accurate idea of what’s really on their master recordings. If you’ve ever enjoyed records engineered and/or produced by T Bone Burnett, Bob Ludwig, Mark Ronson, or Doug Sax, or in the studios of Electric Lady or Telarc, or Sony’s massive SACD remastering facilities, you owe some of that pleasure to Woodman’s stunning speaker designs. Even at Abbey Road Studios, right next to the Bowers & Wilkins monitors you always see advertised, you also see ATCs.

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  1. Sonos: I'm a Convert
  2. Bruno Putzeys Navigates Toward the State of the Art
  3. Chasing Bruno Putzeys Down the Rabbit Hole of Audio and Discovering the Channel Islands Audio E•200S Stereo Amplifier
  4. A Christmas Goodie List (with Thoughtful Notes)
  5. Seeing the Stage: Eclipse's TD508MK3 Loudspeakers
  6. Roon
  7. Francis Albert Sinatra: A Centennial Worth Celebrating
  8. IsoAcoustics Component Stands: Magic or Science?
  9. Is It Time to Go 4K? I Say Yes!
  10. What About Us? Post-Holiday Gift Ideas to Give Ourselves, Part II
  11. Welcome to High-Rise Hi-Fi with the Prism Sound Lyra 2
  12. Eclipse TD510ZMK2: Tell Amoeba to Send My Records Back!!
  13. BenQ W7500 DLP Projector: A Flagship
  14. The Joys of Nearfield Listening
  15. Anthem Performance MRX 710 A/V Receiver: King of the Sonic Frontiers
  16. Christmas for the SoundStager! in Your House
  17. A Tale of Two Speakers
  18. Marantz SR7008 A/V Receiver: Another Winner
  19. Mitsubishi HC7900DW DLP Projector: Ideal for the Right Owner
  20. Computer Audio Finds, Part Two: A Little Creative Experimentation
  21. Computer Audio Finds, Part One: Dirac Research Live Room Correction Suite
  22. Something Special: Oppo Digital BDP-103 Blu-ray Player
  23. JVC DLA-X70R 2D/3D Projector
  24. Christmas Gifts for the Audiophile/Videophile in Your Life
  25. The Onkyo TX-NR5010 A/V Receiver: A Perfect Choice to Manage a Whole-House System
  26. DISH’s Hopper-Joey System: Bulletproof, Easy to Use, and Oh, So Powerful
  27. Magnificent: NAD T 787 A/V Receiver
  28. The Ultimate Upgrade
  29. Coaxing the Best from Your Apple: the NuForce Icon iDo
  30. A Guide to the Greatest Directors: Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE
  31. What About Us? Post-Holiday Gift Ideas to Give Ourselves
  32. Roku 2 and Hulu Plus: Time to Finally Cut the Cable?
  33. Marantz AV7005 A/V Processor: The New Middleweight Champ
  34. Wisdom Audio Sage Series SCS Powered Subwoofer
  35. Oppo Digital Does It Again: The BDP-93 Blu-ray Player
  36. Directors Making Classic Films Today: Darren Aronofsky
  37. Anthem MRX 700 A/V Receiver
  38. Looking for the Ultimate Source: Part Two
  39. Looking for the Ultimate Source: Part One
  40. Logitech Revue: One Tool to Rule Them All
  41. David Lean on a Grand Scale
  42. Save Yourself Some Trouble: What I’ve Already Learned About Computer Audio, Part Two
  43. Save Yourself Some Trouble: What I’ve Already Learned About Computer Audio, Part One
  44. Anthony Gallo Acoustics Nucleus Reference 3.5 Loudspeakers
  45. NūVision Lucidium NVU40FX5LS LED TV
  46. Explaining HDMI while Solving the Cause of Blue-Screen Nightmares

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