Sensible Sound articles from September 2002

Sensible Sound archives from September 2002

Ramblings.
September 1, 2002... Welcome to Issue #92, another one of those issues with a little bit of everything--component reviews, speaker reviews, show reports, CD reviews, SACD reviews, and a bunch of other stuff, to be precise. Think of it as the Great Summer Grab-bag...

Radio days. (Forum).
September 1, 2002... Every once in a while, a product comes along that really strikes one as being unique. The Tivoli Model One radio is just that kind of product. While its configuration harkens back to the opening era of radio, its technology and construction are...

The sounds of silence. (Surveying The Soundscape).
September 1, 2002... The Sounds of Silence: I just got back from Tim's house. Tim lives across the street; his carpentry skills recently saved my beloved Soundwave Fidelity Soliloqy speakers. And that wasn't the first time he's come through with table saw or...

Flatterment. (Surveying The Soundscape).
September 1, 2002... Granite Audio (http://www.graniteaudio.com) has worked out a compensation chart for the popular Radio Shack SPL meter. Add the numbers below to the meter reading at the frequencies indicated to get flat response measurements. 10Hz ...

Webbin. (Surveying The Soundscape).
September 1, 2002... If you like AudioAsylum (http://www.audioasylum.com) you might love AudioKarma (http://www.audiokarma.org). The AudioKarma forum site is just getting started but looks like a winner in terms of presentation, content, and resources. Give it a...

Hot whacks. (Surveying The Soundscape).
September 1, 2002... Fantasy Records surprised me with a double-barreled blast of (officially) previously unreleased live recordings by the Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington at the Alhambra: Pablo PACD-5313-2) and Stan Kenton (Stan Kenton Orchestra: Stompin' at...

Rooms for improvement. (Surveying The Soundscape).
September 1, 2002... It's a commonplace that your room--including its dimensions, its contents, its layout--is a major component of your music or home theater system. And it's unnerving to think that the brocaded settee you inherited from your grandmother might...

Two-channel purity? (Skeptimania).
September 1, 2002... Two-channel purist microphone techniques, that is, those that minimize the amount of electrical, multi-microphone, and mixer-related diddling required to make two-channel recordings, have traditionally come in two different flavors. Some adept...

That's [Home] Entertainment, Part II! Our man in New York covers the Home Entertainment 2002 Show. (Show Report).
September 1, 2002... The fifth Home Entertainment Show in New York, with a full year of planning, had grown to 250 exhibitors in 85 demo rooms, although as usual a number of those rooms were devoted to things other than music. I found 57 systems worth a listen-and...

ELAC 209-Jet loudspeakers.
September 1, 2002... Manufacturer: ELAC Electroacoustic GmbH, Kiel, Germany; www.elac.com Distributor: Trian Electronics, Inc., 5816 Highway K, Waunakee, WI 53597; (608) 850-3600; Fax: (608) 850-3602; www.triancorp.com Price: $2,198/pair Source:...

Legacy Audio Focus 20/20 loudspeaker.
September 1, 2002... Manufacturer: Legacy Audio, 150 Locust St., P.O. Box 36, Macungie, PA 18062; 610/965-4915; www.legacy-audio.com Price: $6,000/pr in standard finishes, $6,400/ pr in premium Source: Manufacturer loan Reviewer: Karl W. Nehring ...

Mastersound 220-SE stereo integrated amplifier.
September 1, 2002... Distributor: Acoustic Dreams, US Route 45 South, Box #429, Fairfield, IL 62837; audiosales@acousticdreams.net Price: $1,650 Source: Distributor loan Reviewer: James T. Frane Tube amplifiers: relics of the past? That may have...

Sherbourn Technologies Model 1/300MB amplifier.
September 1, 2002... Manufacturer: Sherbourn Technologies, Inc., 6 Landing Lane, Hopedale, MA 01747 Price: $649 Source: Manufacturer loan Reviewer: Howard Ferstler In spite of my brass-tacks attachment to A/ V receivers and A/V integrated...

More jazz than not. (The Music).
September 1, 2002... The Association: Just the Right Sound (Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78303) In the mid to late `60s, rock music seemed to be everywhere. The British Invasion, Chicago Blues, the San Francisco Sound, the Memphis Sound, the Motown Sound, all these...

:rarum and well done. (The Music).
September 1, 2002... The ECM label has produced many wonderful recordings over the past three decades, noteworthy both for their performances and for their sound quality. Many, many ECM recordings have been recommended in the pages of The Sensible Sound over the...

Double double. (The Music).
September 1, 2002... Here we go again, comparing two competing recordings of large-scale orchestral music; in this case, one of the original large-scale orchestral music compositions, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Many issues ago, we compared an older (1991)...

Carousel corner: Heartland Bands, Part 1. (The Music).
September 1, 2002... We talk and write a lot about the country's heartland, how rock `n'roll seems to travel up and down the Mississippi River from N'Awlins to ChiTown getting pricked, jabbed, poked, prodded into its latest incarnations. We focus on the sources of...

Reissue roundup: five fantasy jazz reissues on SACD from Analogue Productions. (The Music).
September 1, 2002... Chet Baker: Chet, CAPJ 1135SA Miles Davis: Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet, CAPJ 7094SA Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debby, CAPJ 9399SA Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus, CAPJ 7079SA Sonny Rollins: Way Out West, CAPJ 7530SA...

Scoping software. (The Music).
September 1, 2002... I am beginning to realize that DVD-A is overkill in terms of what is required for the proper reproduction of most musical material on most home-music systems, including some very good ones. Sticking my neck out, I will say that my comments...

John Puccio reviews ... (The Music).
September 1, 2002... Bach: Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestral Suites; Violin Concertos; Concerto for Two Violins. Henryk Szeryng, violin; Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Philips Trio 289 470 934-2 (3-disc set). It's always seemed to...