I’ve not heard the Meze Empyrean ($2999) yet, for example, but it has received several glowing reviews. The latest luxury products are primarily high-priced planar magnetic and electrostatic designs with which the builders have driven measured performance to Olympian levels (Focal’s headphones are one exception). The current mainstream trends in headphones lean more toward HiFi, or what I might describe as hyper-real playback. One point I’d like to make here is that even those dedicated to two-channel playback and maybe a less modern hifi sound can find satisfaction in personal audio.
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With headphones, we lose the scale, full body immersion, and some social aspects, and in turn, get a more direct and intimate sound that removes the influence of a listening room. That said, I have spent ever more time with headphones in recent years, and now with my reference system, find the trade-primarily, a much smaller listening space-to be an equitable one. The pendulum swings… The Verve 1995 stereo reissue – found it at StinkweedsĪs time passed I came to prefer two-channel over headphones for its scale and power, and still do. Today, we know many who continue pursuing (I’d like to experiment with a mono cartridge, well, because I want to know, and information isn’t knowledge.) mono playback, and with verve. Mono was benched to make room for stereo years before I was born, and, I suspect (hoping, actually) there has been a Loyal Order of the Monophonic since the industry made the switch. Of course, music (making it or playing it back) is not a sport. I went mono before it was cool, uh, again. I can’t recall the exact model, but this looks like it…
My first loudspeaker was not two channel, but instead a single speaker in a small red briefcase, with the 8-track slot on the side and a microphone. I was most likely listening to the Star Wars soundtrack. I recall sitting on one end of our couch in the living room with some big 70’s headphones on, leashed (with the coiled cable) to an 8-track player like a tetherball (skinny kid/big head) to a pole. Two channel systems with loudspeakers, or “stereos” as my childhood friends and I called them, and headphones have always run together, side by side-my earliest memories of listening to playback include both. Review: Fezz Audio Alfa Lupi Integrated Amplifierĭarko.Audio Podcast #46: AXPONA 2023 Review + MQA Goes Into AdministrationĪxpona 2023 Final Thoughts: Extremist Thinking Isn’t Really Thinking At Allĭarko.Audio Podcast #45: Made in China + Why No Negative Reviews?Īlbum of the Week: boygenius | the record In Barn for Review: Cambridge Audio Edge NQ Preamp/Network Player & Edge M Monoblock Power Amplifiers
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