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Welcome to The Abso!ute Sound online! We explore music and the reproduction of music in the home. We believe that the sound of music, unamplified, occurring in a real space is a philosophic absolute against which we may judge the performance of devices designed to reproduce music. Our goal is to provide the resources consumers need to judge how a component's sound either honors or departs from the music's truth, and to make sound purchasing decisions that maximize their experience of reproduced sound. Below is our Issue 146, February / March 2004 table of contents and editorial.
February / March 2004
Viewpoints
4 - From The Editor
6 - Letters121 - Manufacturer Comments
Columns
14 - Future TAS: Products on the Horizon
A special report by Neil Gader on Sonus Faber’s new factory and latest statement speaker.
16 - Industry News
22 - Absolute Analog
Wayne Garcia hot-rods his Rega with a bevy of cool aftermarket tweaks.
93 - Cover Story: Meridian DSP7000 Digital Loudspeaker
Robert Harley looks at an entire system consisting of just one component and a pair of loudspeakers, with just two thin cables—neither of them analog—hooking it all together. Oh, and the user interface is in the speakers.
42 - 2003 Product of the Year Awards
The Absolute Sound’s writers and editors select the most intriguing audio products from the past year.
50 - The In-Between Music of Andrew Hill
Kevin Whitehead on one of jazz’s brilliant and underappreciated artists.
TAS Journal
28 - Recommended Products: Digital and Analog Source Components.
38 - Editorial: your relationship with the high-end retailer.
Equipment Reports
56 - Loudspeaker Cable Survey, Part One
Paul Seydor and Neil Gader look at affordable models from Harmonic Technology, Kimber, MIT, Siltech, Synergistic Research, and Tara Labs.
64 - Rotel RCD-1072 CD Player
Read Alan Taffel’s findings on a very special CD spinner.
68 - Evolutionary—MartinLogan Aeon i Hybrid Electrostatic Speaker
Wayne Garcia reports on the latest refinements to ML’s ’stat-’n’-cone technology.
73 - Definitive Technology BP7001SC SuperTower Loudspeaker
A great speaker from a large, successful company?
Why not? says Chris Martens.
76 - Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor Loudspeaker
Small speaker, big sound—Wayne Garcia listens to this
beautiful Italian offering.
79 - Coincident Speaker Technology Partial Eclipse Series II Speaker and Atma-Sphere Music Systems MA-1 Silver Edition OTL Amplifier
Sue Kraft finds synergy between this high-sensitivity speaker and unusual tube amp.
The Cutting Edge
85 - Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 5 Loudspeaker
High end from B&O? Read Neil Gader’s thoughts on this futuristic design.
102 - DALI Megaline Loudspeaker
Though they aren’t yet well-known in the U.S., Robert E. Greene explains why these Danish DALIs should be.
HP Workshop
113 - The Perils of Reviewing (or) Into the Gray Zone with HP:
The Coincident Technologies Total Victory Speaker System
The Music
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123 - Feature: 2003's Best Rock/Pop and
Classical Box Sets and Collections Curl up to the more than one hundred discs that are 2003’s best boxes, collections, and best-ofs—the foundations for any music library. |
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141 - Classical Three from Kronos String Quartet—Vasks: String Quartet No. 4, Berg: Lyric Suite, and Partch: U.S. Highball; Mahler: Symphony No. 6 and Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concertos in A minor; Beethoven: Fidelio (Rattle) SACD—Ravel: Bolero. Rapsodie espagnole. Daphnis et Chloé; Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet and Telarc’s Epics DVD-A—Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Mutter) |
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143 - Absolute Audiophilia Reference Returns: Taverner: Ikon of Eros and Argento: Casa Guidi and Felix Hell "Organ Sensation"; The Living Presence of 20th Century Music from Speakers Corner (3 LPs) |
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157 - Rock and Pop Nelly Furtado: Folklore; Missy Elliott: This Is Not A Test; Bright Eyes: Vinyl Box Set; Paul Westerberg: Come Feel Me Tremble and Dead Man Shake; Jimi Hendrix: Live at Berkeley (LP); The Beatles: Let it Be…Naked; Metamorphosis—ABKCO’s Rolling Stones Remastered Series on vinyl |
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163 - 2003's Top Ten Pop/Rock, Jazz, and
Classical Albums Bob Gendron, Fred Kaplan, and Andrew Quint commit to print 2003's finest albums. |
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165 - Jazz The Complete Verve Gerry Mulligan Concert Band Sessions; Jaki Byard Quartet with Joe Farrell: The Last from Lennie’s; Stan Getz: Bossas and Ballads—The Lost Sessions; Fred Anderson: Back at the Velvet Lounge and Josh Abrams: Cipher; Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack; Pat Martino: Think Tank; Mario Pavone Nu Trio/Quintet: Orange SACD—Fantasy wades into SACD with classics from Gil Evans, John Coltrane, and Dave Brubeck |
TAS Retrospective
176 - The MartinLogan CLS I
Jonathan Valin on a classic (and difficult) love affair.
Finale
211 - Classifieds
213 - Where To Buy The Absolute Sound
215 - Ad Index
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