Audio Advice

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Here are a few commentaries to help you get started on the road to better sound.

Audio Progress Is Key to Finding Hot Stampers

It’s not easy — nothing is in fact harder. However, if your approach to audio is clear-headed and evidence-based — in other words, scientific — progress is not only possible, it is virtually guaranteed.

Most of the listings compiled here describe lessons we’ve learned from playing so many records over the years. If you play lots of records and listen to them critically, some of them will teach you things about audio that you cannot learn any other way.

Here you will find a dozen or so pieces of basic audio advice.

If you would like to dig deeper, believe me, we have plenty more where that came from.

Progress in Audio

Practically all of our audio philosophy derives from the simple act of trying to get our system to play the greatest recordings of all time with the highest fidelity possible, including this group of challenging, difficult to reproduce albums.

These commentaries explain our positions on aspects of audio that some audiophiles may find upsetting.

Our experience from 50 years spent in audio is that music cannot be reproduced properly on small or medium-sized speakers. Nothing less than big speakers in large, heavily-treated rooms can actually do that job.

Although many may prefer not to hear it, we keep saying it because we believe big speakers in good rooms are essential to lifelike reproduction of music in the home.

Record Cleaning

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