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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 164, September 2006 table of contents and editorial.
September 2006
| Equipment Reports | ||||||||||
| Cover Story: Meridian 808 Signature Reference CD Player Sue Kraft reviews the new reference model from the company that made the first-ever musical-sounding CD player. Robert Harley comments. |
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| Six Overachieving
Audio Systems You Can Afford Does high end always mean high-priced? We think not, as these six affordable systems will demonstrate. Chris Martens leads the way.. |
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| Munich High End 2006 Roy Gregory reports from Germany’s premier audio show. |
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| START ME UP: Rotel RX-1052 and Outlaw Audio RR 2150 Stereo Receivers Rare-bird sightings by Jim Hannon — two stereo receivers that focus on the music. |
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| Absolute Analog: Pro-Ject RM-9.1 Turntable System A very good turntable just got better — Jim Hannon looks at the latest from Pro-Ject. |
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| DALI IKON 6
Loudspeaker Affordable excellence from Denmark. Robert E. Greene reports. |
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| A Cable Survey Neil Gader on winning wires from Crystal Cable, Nordost, and TARA Labs. |
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| YBA Design YA201
Integrated Amplifier and YC201 CD player Chris Martens finds himself listening with his eyes…as well as his ears. |
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| Aerial Acoustics
Model 9 Loudspeaker The latest offerings from Michael Kelly delivers the goods. Jacob Heilbrunn reports. |
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| Cary Audio CD 306
CD/SACD Player Excellent Super Audio sound from Cary, says Robert Harley. |
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| Audio Research
300.2, Classé CA-M400, and McIntosh MC 501 Power Amplifiers Tom Martin ponders why amplifiers are so important. |
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| The Cutting Edge | ||||||||||
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Music-Minded Controllers, Part 3: Attractive Opposites |
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MBL 5011 and 6010D Linestage Preamps, 1521A CD |
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Pass Labs XA160 and X600.5 Monoblock Power |
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| Music | ||||||||||
| Basic Repertoire: Bluegrass, Part 2 David McGee wraps up his two-part journey through the annals of bluegrass by chronicling bluegrass’ modern manifestations and recommending the recorded essentials of its new traditions. |
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| Recording of the Issue - Theater of Voices/Fretwork: The Cries of London | ||||||||||
| Classical Reviews of Golijov’s Ainadamar, Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, Foulds’ Dynamic Triptych, Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, a Prokofiev box set, R. Luke DuBois’ Timelapse, Die Walküre on SACD, and two Everest classics on LP. |
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| Jazz The scoop on the latest from Patricia Barber, Frank Kimbrough, David Hazeltine, and Kidd Jordan, plus box sets from Fats Waller, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, and a new audiophile-grade Nat “King” Cole LP. |
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| Rock, Etc. Reviews of more than a dozen new albums and reissues, including the latest from Tom Petty, Thom Yorke, Frank Black, Comets on Fire, Sonic Youth, Espers, and Rhymefest as well as box sets on Bob Wills, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, and 50s rockabilly. |
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| Finale | ||||||||||
| TAS Retrospective: The QUAD ESL-57 by Jonathan Valin |
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