Stereophile’s Products of 1996
By This is the fifth year Stereophile has named a select few components as “Products of the Year.” By doing so, we intend to give recognition to those components that have proved capable of giving musical pleasure beyond the formal review period. There are six individual categories: Loudspeakers (including subwoofers); Amplification Components (preamplifiers, power amplifiers, etc.); […]
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Impact Wrestling to debut in Australia this summer
Impact Wrestling will make their debut in Australia this summer as part of a four-day, two event tour. The promotion will head to Wagga, Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, for events on Friday, June 30th and Saturday, July 1st at the Equex Centre in addition to two days of fan events. Conrad Thompson will also […]
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In My Room
Listening rooms are real, imperfect places. Their character arises from their defects. I like real, imperfect things (footnote 1). Not that there’s such a thing as a perfect listening room. Every domestic listening room shares the same basic problem: Its most fundamental nature—its size and shape, the amount of space it carves out—results in resonances […]
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Bryan Danielson’s Broken Arm Worse Than Expected
There is an injury update on Bryan Danielson after he broke his arm in his shocking victory over Kazuchika Okada at this past Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2. Brie Garcia, also known as WWE Hall of Famer Brie Bella, shared an X-Ray photo on her Instagram stories showing the extent of Danielson’s […]
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LWO members get matching tattoos ahead of WWE Backlash
Members of the Latino World Order got matching tattoos ahead of Saturday’s Backlash event in Puerto Rico. WWE’s social media showed a short video of Rey Mysterio, Zelina Vega, Cruz Del Toro, Santos Escobar, and Joaquin Wilde all getting matching tattoos of the LWO logo. Click Here: British & Irish Lions rugby shirts On Twitter, […]
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Rudresh Mahanthappa: The Time Is Now
An outburst of saxophone flurries sits you straight up in your chair. The tone is rich but with a cutting edge. It has to be Rudresh Mahanthappa. The riveting cry of his alto saxophone is one of the most recognizable sounds in jazz. But those darting runs coalesce into Charlie Parker’s “Red Cross.” So it […]
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WOR Video: AEW took a gamble with All In, and it paid off
AEW’s All In success story was discussed on Friday’s Wrestling Observer Radio. When asked about current numbers, Dave Meltzer on Friday estimated the show at around 60,000 tickets sold, and perhaps as high as 65,000. That puts All In next to some of the biggest drawing shows in pro wrestling history. “[It is] ahead of […]
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Polk Legend L100 loudspeaker
Summer! COVID-19 notwithstanding, summer—warmth, flowers, leaves on trees—has descended on Greenwich Village, my New York City home for the past 30 years. What hasn’t descended are tourists, belching motorcycles, behemoth sports cars, beer drinkers, and the usual summer hell-raisers, the sort that would’ve sent legendary Village bohemians Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs running back to their […]
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Claudio Castagnoli vs. Robbie Eagles set for Ring of Honor TV
Ring of Honor World Champion Claudio Castagnoli will be part of this Thursday's ROH on HonorClub as he faces Robbie Eagles. It will be a non-title affair in this first time ever matchup. This marks the ROH debut for Eagles who is a regular in NJPW and also a former NJPW Junior Heavyweight Champion. Samoa […]
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PS Audio BHK Signature preamplifier
“Let be.” Those two words, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, express an entire philosophy of life in one of the shortest sentences possible. The quotation may not be familiar, but the concept certainly is—contemporary equivalents, each with its own inflections of meaning, include: Shit happens. Let the game come to you. Keep calm and carry on. (I […]
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